Senior Data Governance Analyst

Title: Sr. Data Governance Analyst

Location: Houston United States

Job Description:

At Murphy Oil Corporation, we believe the rich experiences and backgrounds of our employees strengthen our Company, create a productive workforce, and drive our success. We encourage you to apply for the positions for which you meet the qualifications.

Job Summary

This Sr Data Governance Analyst partners closely with the Enterprise Data Lead to plan and prioritize key data governance initiatives, ensuring all efforts are aligned, sequenced, and integrated into the broader enterprise data and analytics strategy. It is also responsible for driving company-wide adoption of data governance by leading communication, training, change management, and enablement activities that build awareness, engagement, and long-term cultural commitment to governance practices.

The Sr Data Governance Analyst will work in our Houston Corporate office and may work up to two (2) days a week remotely, as business needs allow.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the enterprise data governance strategy aligned to business and regulatory requirements
• Establish and mature the data governance operating model, including data ownership, stewardship, domain governance, and federated data model practices across business units and master data domains
• Lead governance councils, decision‑making processes, issue escalation paths, and cross‑functional workshops to align on key entities, domain hierarchies, downstream dependencies, and master data definitions
• Develop, maintain, and enforce data governance policies, standards, and best practices.
• Champion data quality, metadata management, lineage transparency, and consistent master/reference data definitions across priority domains
• Embed governance into master data, data products, pipelines, and lifecycle processes.
• Partner with data owners and stewards to define critical data elements, quality rules, approval workflows, and domain‑level governance artifacts
• Identify, onboard, and enable business data owners and stewards while driving accountability for stewardship, approvals, and remediation
• Facilitate workshops to define glossary terms, critical data elements, and data quality rules.
• Drive cultural adoption of governance through communication, training, documentation, and change management activities
• Connect business enablement teams with technical platform teams to ensure governance objectives align with technical execution
• Establish governance standards for data products and medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold), including certification criteria, quality thresholds, SLAs, change control, and approval workflows
• Collaborate with Enterprise Data Lead to align governance initiatives with the enterprise data and analytics roadmap
• Serve as the primary administrator for Microsoft Purview (catalog, lineage, scans, RBAC, glossary, classifications, sensitivity labels) and Profisee MDM (domains, hierarchies, attributes, reference datasets)
• Configure, support, troubleshoot, and enhance data governance tools within a build-run-enhance model while maintaining platform stability and user adoption.
• Translate governance strategy into technical execution across Azure, Databricks, Microsoft Purview, and Profisee MDM
• Manage Purview scans, onboard new Azure/Databricks data sources, and maintain healthy catalog operations
• Validate and maintain end‑to‑end data lineage across Azure Data Factory, Databricks, and Synapse/Fabric pipelines
• Configure and enforce RBAC, access policies, and domain‑based collection structures.
• Define and optimize match/merge rules and survivorship logic in Profisee MDM to maintain accurate golden records
• Manage MDM load jobs, stewardship workflows, exceptions, and data publishing into Azure/Databricks
• Support business stewards with remediation tasks, approvals, and ongoing operational needs.
• Troubleshoot data quality issues, workflow failures, and integration gaps across the MDM ecosystem
• Integrate golden records into analytics, reporting, and downstream systems.
• Align Purview metadata, glossary, lineage, and catalog content with platform assets, pipelines, and domain models
• Ensure metadata quality, naming conventions, steward assignments, and compliance across systems

Licenses/ Certifications

• Certified Data Management Professional certification, preferred
• Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional, preferred

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Information Systems, MIS or other STEM degree
• Minimum 10 years' experience in data governance, data management, or data platform roles
• Hands-on Microsoft Purview administration experience (catalog, lineage, scans, RBAC, glossary)
• Hands-on Profisee MDM administration and domain management experience
• Strong technical understanding of Azure data platform architecture and Databricks lakehouse environment
• Experience integrating MDM outputs and Purview metadata with Azure data ecosystems.
• Experience with medallion (Bronze/Silver/Gold) architecture and defining governance standards for layered data pipelines
• Knowledge of metadata management frameworks, data quality practices, and master data domain management (survivorship rules, golden records)
• Experience creating or driving a data governance roadmap and aligning initiatives with enterprise data strategy
• Knowledge of regulatory and compliance requirements relevant to upstream oil and gas operations
• Proven ability to collaborate with business teams for data ownership, stewardship, and accountability
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and facilitation skills

The individual is required to follow all applicable safety precautions. Work is performed almost entirely in a controlled (i.e., inside) environment and does not typically subject the incumbent to any hazardous/extreme elements; some positions may require regularly moving or transporting items weighing up to 25 lbs. around the office for various needs. The successful candidate must be able to complete all essential physical requirements of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.

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PURPOSE

We believe in providing energy that empowers people.

MISSION

We challenge the norm, tap into our strong legacy and use our foresight and financial discipline to deliver inspired energy solutions.

VISION

We see a future where we are an industry leader who is positively impacting lives for the next 100 years and beyond.

VALUES & BEHAVIORS

Do Right Always

• Respect people, safety, environment and the law
• Follow through on commitments
• Make it better

Think Beyond Possible

• Offer solution
• Step up and lead
• Don't settle for "good enough"
• Embrace new opportunities

Stay With It

• Show resilience
• Lean into challenges
• Support each other
• Consider the implications

Murphy Oil Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, and status as a protected veteran, or any other category protected by federal, state or local laws.

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