Governance Analyst - Data Management

For over 100 years we’ve helped dealers serve their customers by providing best-in-class products and services — and by remaining true to the automotive passion we share. Join a team dedicated to delivering customer-obsessed auto finance products and solutions through trusted, well-managed data. We are problem solvers who value diverse thinking, support one another, and challenge ourselves to think bigger in our journey to enable data-driven decisions safely and responsibly.

Ally is committed to transforming our data governance and management capabilities to drive business value and uphold our “do it right” approach. We are seeking a results-oriented Analyst who brings hands on experience in data governance and management experience to support the execution and continuous improvement of Ally’s data governance and management policies, enablement services, and compliance measurement within the Data Solutions Support team. The Data Management Analyst will drive the adoption of enterprise data governance practices that ensure our data is trusted, well-understood, and compliant. You will partner with business and technology stakeholders to define data standards, establish data ownership and stewardship, manage metadata and lineage, monitor data quality, and support regulatory and risk requirements across Ally’s Auto Asset Management data domain.

At this time, Ally will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

This position must sit in our Lewisville, TX office (2911 Lake Vista Dr, Lewisville, TX 75067)

• Partner with Data Product Owners, Data Stewards, and Engineering to implement enterprise data governance frameworks, policies, and standards across Snowflake and other strategic data platforms.
• Define and maintain critical data elements (CDEs), data dictionaries, business glossaries, and metadata in governance tools (e.g., Alation, Collibra), ensuring consistency and traceability from source to consumption.
• Establish and monitor data quality rules, profiling, and scorecards; triage quality issues, perform root-cause analysis, and drive remediation with owning teams.
• Implement and maintain end-to-end data lineage (e.g., via Manta, Collibra) to improve transparency, impact analysis, and control effectiveness for reporting and analytics.
• Support risk management and compliance initiatives by documenting data controls, evidencing control performance, and aligning to regulatory obligations and internal policies.
• Collaborate with Analytics and BI teams to ensure governed, curated data is used appropriately; provide guidance on data usage, definitions, and compliance constraints.
• Contribute to the design of curated data layers and data domains with an emphasis on governance requirements (ownership, quality thresholds, retention, access classifications).
• Administer and enhance governance workflows for issue management, change requests, and stewardship approvals; track governance KPIs and produce dashboards and status reporting.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies; refine governance-related user stories, requirements, and acceptance criteria; prioritize work based on business-critical risk and compliance needs.
• Leverage SQL and metadata tools to validate data definitions, perform profiling, and support lineage mapping; collaborate with engineering on remediation plans when needed.
• Stay current with data governance, quality, lineage, and observability trends; recommend improvements to tooling, processes, and operating models.

• 1+ years of relevant experience in data analysis, data governance, and/or data management required.
• Intermediate knowledge of SQL and relational databases is required.
• Bachelor’s degree required; preferred fields: Information Management, Data Management, Computer Science, Data Science, Business Analytics, or related.
• Strong organizational, analytical, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills; comfortable facilitating across business and technology teams.
• Hands-on experience with data governance and catalog/lineage tools (e.g., Alation, Collibra, Manta) and data quality/observability solutions preferred.
• Familiarity with Snowflake, Oracle, or SQL Server; ability to profile data and validate quality rules is preferred.
• Understanding of data management principles, governance operating models, stewardship, metadata management, data lineage, and data quality practices.
• Awareness of risk and compliance requirements relevant to financial services data (e.g., data privacy, retention, access controls, control testing).
• Experience with cloud data platforms (e.g., AWS, Snowflake) and collaboration in Agile environments.
• Reporting experience (Power BI/Tableau is a plus) and proficiency in Excel for status tracking and metric reporting.
• Familiarity with Python/DBT is a plus for metadata extraction, data profiling, or lineage support, though this role is governance-focused rather than engineering-focused.

• Time Away: Program starts at 20 paid time off days in addition to 11 paid holidays and 8 hours of volunteer time off yearly (time off days are prorated based on start date and program varies based on full or part-time status and management level).
• Planning for the Future: plan for the near and long term with an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan pay downs and 529 educational save up assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, employee stock purchase plan, and financial learning center and financial coach access.
• Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including medical, dental and vision, employee, spouse and child life insurance, short- and long-term disability, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions, Healthcare FSA, critical illness, accident & hospital indemnity insurance, and a total well-being program that helps you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally, and financially.
• Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy and fertility assistance as well as paid parental and caregiver leave, Dependent Day Care FSA back-up child and adult/elder care days and childcare discounts.
• Work-Life Integration: other benefits including Mentally Fit Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers® program and other employee discount programs.
• Other compensations: depending on the role for which you are considered, you may be eligible for travel allowances, relocation assistance, a signing bonus and/or equity.
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Who We Are:

Ally Financial is a customer-centric, leading digital financial services company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions. We are relentlessly focused on "Doing it Right" and being a trusted financial-services provider to our consumer, commercial, and corporate customers. For more information, visit www.ally.com.

Ally is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at hrpolicy@ally.com. Ally will not discriminate against any qualified individual who is capable of performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.