Analyst, Data Governance

National Grid is hiring an Analyst for our Data Governance department in Upstate, NY / Downstate, NY or Waltham, NE.

Everyday we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. We are there when people need us the most. We connect people to the energy they need for the lives they live. The pace of change in society and our industry is accelerating and our expertise and track record puts us in an unparalleled position to shape the sustainable future of our industry.

To be successful we must anticipate the needs of our customers, reducing the cost of energy delivery today and pioneering the flexible energy systems of tomorrow. This requires us to deliver on our promises and always look for new opportunities to grow, both ourselves and our business

The position reports to the Manager, Data Governance. The Data Governance Analyst functions as a partner for the Data team working closely with IT, business, product and platform teams. The Data Governance Analyst will bring the capability of defining and maintaining new processes inclusive of end to end data requirements. This will include but not limited to process mapping, data mapping, strategy to manage data, risk and assumption identification, value case development, data change management and governance of data to ensure the reliability and safety of the National Grid's assets and customer information.

• Support day to day governance of National Grid's Gas data, this include but not limited to:
  • End to end review and triage of data impact on defect and improvement requests
  • Forum management
  • Deep dive analysis
  • Issue and risk management
  • Data privacy and security
• Support business/operation work stream team, participating in Agile sprints during full product roadmap
• Works with the Scrum team on sprint planning by helping define activities needed for current sprint to meet objectives (e.g., user interviews, experiments, pilots, etc.)
• Construct business case, including value projections and detailed investment estimate; ensure these are aligned with product definition
• Proactively identify riskiest assumptions and support product team in designing and executing experiments to increase confidence in business case assumptions
• Define future-state operations solution (process, org change), including detailed current state-process and future-state process documentation
• Provide support to product & technical workstreams (e.g., RFP support, stakeholder management, value alignment, IT governance, IT PMO)
• Support preparation of materials for key stakeholder readouts (e.g., Digital Board meetings)

• Lean Six Sigma/Continuous Process Improvement: Process mapping, establish the SIPOC, create and implement controls, and train the stakeholders on the process and the controls
• Minimum 3-5 years of relevant business experience and working on digital product teams
• Experience designing and refining value case (e.g., financial value to the business, strategic value, etc.)
• Experience in defining, testing, and refining product assumptions
• At least 2 years working with (or within) utility
• Bachelor's degree in data science, technology, or engineering required