Ahold Delhaize USA is hiring: Analyst Data Governance in Quincy

Overview

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Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of global food retailer Ahold Delhaize, supports brands such as Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. The HR Data Governance Team maintains accuracy, security, and compliance of HR data across Databricks and Microsoft Fabric environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and enforcement of HR data governance policies to ensure compliance with enterprise standards, audit, and regulatory requirements.
• Define, monitor, and enhance data quality rules in Ataccama for critical HR datasets.
• Oversee and validate data quality across Databricks Silver, Gold, and Platinum layers to ensure accuracy and completeness before publication.
• Investigate root causes of data quality issues, track remediation progress, and collaborate with Data Engineering on sustainable process improvements.
• Deliver recurring Data Quality & Compliance dashboards highlighting lineage integrity, remediation status, and governance KPIs.
• Maintain and continuously update metadata and lineage documentation across Databricks, Unity Catalog, and Fabric Data Catalog.
• Define and align business and technical definitions across Ataccama and Fabric glossaries to ensure consistent terminology and traceability.
• Partner with Data Model and Visualization Analysts to enforce schema consistency, standardized measures, and common naming conventions.
• Communicate lineage and schema changes related to model updates, new deployments, or structural modifications.
• Govern the Row‑Level Security (RLS) framework for HR data in Power BI and Fabric, ensuring alignment with HR role‑based personas.
• Lead quarterly access and security reviews with stakeholders to verify group assignments, permissions, and compliance documentation.
• Define and enforce data access policies through Unity Catalog and Azure AD groups, ensuring complete audit evidence.
• Serve as the primary governance liaison for audit requests, compliance reviews, and data certification documentation.
• Integrate governance checkpoints into the HR Reporting Lifecycle from peer review through certification and release.
• Collaborate with the Senior Data Visualization Analyst to ensure reports meet RLS, lineage, and certification standards prior to release.
• Partner with Data Analysts and Automation Developers to operationalize governance monitoring and automation using Power Automate and Ataccama workflows.
• Act as the HR domain subject‑matter expert (SME) for data governance across enterprise data councils and cross‑functional forums.
• Mentor Data Analysts supporting governance and model validation to strengthen data quality ownership and best practices.
• Lead initiatives to automate governance documentation, lineage updates, and exception reporting.
• Represent HR Reporting & Analytics in global collaboration efforts with People Insights, Data Engineering, and HR Compliance & Innovation teams.

Qualifications

• Proactively look for solutions and anticipate needs to develop new or revised processes, providing fully developed work.
• Proactively look for system and technical solutions and anticipate needs to develop new or revised ways to conduct analysis, configure and design processes to improve efficiency and accuracy.
• Ability to perform most complex analytical tasks related to comparing foundation data, role permissions, configuration, and business rules to determine root cause of error.
• Ability to recommend practical corrective actions and implement actions on analysis provided. Able to identify technical solutions to help solve problems.
• Direct oversight on RLS configuration within Power BI and Azure AD integration.
• Serves as a project lead, partnering with senior IT, business and HR leaders providing HRIS expertise to solve complex business problems to meet business needs.
• Ability to manage and maintain complex system configuration to support design and architecture direction.
• Ability to perform complex system configuration testing and tasks for maintaining a network of HR Systems and applications.
• Ability to partner with global counterparts to create capabilities supporting the entire organization.
• Designs, develops, codes, tests, debugs and/or customizes solutions for own business partners.
• Applies best practices and advanced methodologies, including functional requirements, business processes, changing development and technology environments.
• Ensures that application improvements are successfully implemented.
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and related work experience.
• Power BI or Related Certification Required.
• SuccessFactors Certification Preferred.
• MBA preferred.
• 7+ years of HRIS or significant proven analytical experience.
• 3+ years of Power BI Reporting or Equivalent Configuration Experience Required.
• Critical and System Thinking.
• Advanced MS Office – Excel and PowerBI.
• Written and Spoken Communication – Ability to write requirements documents.
• Strong Analytical Skills.
• Strong Attention to Details.
• HR System and Configuration Knowledge, Advanced understanding of SQL Scripting.
• Strong Presentation Skills.
• Aptitude for comprehending and leveraging both HR and technical concepts for continuous improvement and process re‑design.
• Negotiation Skills.
• DAX Coding.