Data Governance Analyst

The Pepperstone story started in 2010. We know what it’s like to trade the world’s markets. Our team describes us as a place for the curious and the driven, and we like to do things a little differently; as a transformative global fintech we’re digital, nimble, connected, and united in our vision to create a better way to trade. We thrive on progress – for our clients and for ourselves. Our organisational culture is ever-evolving, vibrant, diverse, global and results focused. You’ll find our 700+ team across 12 regions and 9 time zones. The Role The Data Governance Analysts plays a hands-on, delivery-focused role in operationalising Pepperstone's Data Governance Framework and Data Quality Framework across Pepperstone. The role is the connective tissue between governance policy and platform execution, translating principles into tagged, classified, well-described and measurably trusted Data Products and Assets across the business. Using Alation as our governance toolset, the role is responsible for cataloguing and classifying Data Products and Assets, authoring and operationalising semantic Data Quality tests, scheduling and configuring DQ reports, and coordinating the end-to-end resolution of identified Data Quality issues. The role also owns the day-to-day mechanics of Data Product Lifecycle management and review , ensuring our data estate remains fit-for-purpose, compliant and discoverable as it evolves. The Value Proposition of the role is to lift the trustworthiness, transparency and reusability of Pepperstone's data, directly enabling faster, safer, data-driven decisions across Trading, Risk, Finance, Compliance, Marketing and Client Services in a highly regulated, fast-moving financial services environment. Key Responsibilities Contribute to operationalising the Data Governance Framework turning actionable policies, processes, procedures and standards into executed evidenced activity in Alation. Evaluate opportunities and make recommendations for embedding Data Governance practices within IT teams and across the organisation. Use Alation to tag and classify Data Products and Assets (including sensitivity, criticality, ownership, domain, jurisdiction and regulatory context), ensuring consistency with Pepperstone's data classification, privacy and retention standards. Curate and maintain the Enterprise Business Glossary, lineage, and stewardship workflows in Alation so business and technical users can discover, understand and trust our data. Drive adoption of governance practices and tooling across Data Stewards, engineering teams and business stakeholders. Operationalise the Data Quality Framework by designing, authoring and maintaining semantic Data Quality tests in Alation Schedule, configure and tune DQ test execution and reporting on Alation, including run cadence, thresholds, alerting and stakeholder-facing DQ reports and dashboards. Maintain a clear view of open DQ issues, their business impact, root cause and…