A world leader in innovative, casual footwear, Crocs, Inc., is dedicated to the future of comfort. Our original and most famous style, the Classic Clog, is instantly recognized around the world — and for good reason: since 2002, we’ve sold more than 600 million pairs in over 90 countries! We achieved our status as a global leader in the casual footwear category by taking an inherently simple approach to uniting style, modern comfort, and value. Every day, we make a choice to have an open mind and look on the bright and colorful side of life. We embrace and celebrate the uniqueness in everyone, inviting the world to Come As You Are!

The Data Governance & Quality Analyst is responsible for execution of data governance frameworks, facilitating processes that resolve data quality issues, and support the global application of data governance activities across the enterprise. As a successful Analyst, you will be responsible for working within the standard processes within functional areas, supporting ongoing documentation within Crocs’ data catalog, and facilitating the processes that ensure data use matches data policy. You will partner with business collaborators to understand their difficulties, conceptualise, and deliver solutions that both save time, and improve the quality and resiliency of our data environment.  
 
In this role, you need to be passionate about data, making sense of it, and educating others throughout Crocs. You are naturally thorough, but don’t lose sight of the big picture. You have an inquisitive approach, and relentlessly seek ways to tackle problems by learning and executing. While doing so, you refuse to be impeded by anything standing in your way.  You take an analytical approach to all problem-solving and work optimally with others by earning their trust, helping them work through their concerns, and getting their agreement on the path forward.  You are an extraordinary teammate at the core and will do anything to help those around you be more successful. Your mission will be to help to enable better decisions, faster. 
 
The mission of the Data Governance team is to make data easy to use, understand, and adaptive to the growth of the business. This scope includes improving data quality, helping educate others about Crocs data landscape, align data meaning and best practice in analytics, and accelerate efforts involved with data integration and reporting. If the above describes you and your passions, then please make sure to apply as we’d love to talk with you! 

WHAT YOU’LL DO

•Assist with the ongoing curation, administration, and promotion of Crocs Data Catalog: 
•Curation of data definitions, policies, key performance indicators, and other related metadata 
•Ensure relevant documentation is created in a timely manner, in sync with technical specification development, software development, or data lifecycles 
•Creation of approval, communication, and other misc. workflows 
•Classification and categorization of data for alignment to data policies 
•Providing technical support to ensure capacities of the data catalog are readily used 
•Facilitate certification of published reports and analysis  
•Develop, maintain, or enhance Data Quality reporting within PowerBI 
•Identifies process improvement opportunities 
•Collaborate with partners to ensure that data governance work is produced in tandem with their efforts, and advise on methods that keep results consistent at a global scale 
•Own ongoing communications and creation of release notes for the Business Analytics community 
•Identify weaknesses in existing data entry processes, misapplications of data or business terminology, or gaps in data understanding and work with partners to identify, propose, and implement solutions 
•Creation of documentation templates and technical solutions that drive efficiency and ease of use 
•Assist with internal marketing, including development of promotional materials/communications, driving participation in respective committee(s), facilitation of training and onboarding sessions, among other activities. 
•Keep up to date with new data catalog features and evolving data catalog practices 

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE

•Bachelor’s degree in the field of Information Management, Business Management, Communications, or equivalent experience 
•Experience: 1-3 years of professional experience in business analysis, information technology, production support, data analysis or other related fields. 
•Good communication and technical writing skills: ability to learn technical concepts, derive business context, and can clearly present and articulate key elements 
•Basic level understanding of business analytics technology, master data management, data warehousing/ETL processes, and design principles 
•Familiarity with solving technical issues
•Ability to describe and document how information flows through a sophisticated organization, how it is collected, transformed, and analyzed in reporting 
•Ability to constructively challenge existing practices and propose solutions that improve processes or create efficiencies 
•Shown commitment to customer service; anticipates and goes above and beyond by solving problems efficiently and making customer issues a priority 
•Work in collaboration with multi-functional teams including business analytics, digital innovation, product line management, product development, architecture, and others. 
•You have a pragmatic with a propensity to ask WHY and HOW 
•Explains moderately sophisticated information to others in straightforward situations
•May influence others within the area through explanation of facts, policies and practices
•Provides informal guidance to new team members
•Experience in data analysis role performing data exploration, data classification, data validation, quality assurance, data visualization, etc. 
•Experience building training materials, instructional documentation, or building standard operating procedures 
•Experience with data manipulation and/or using APIs through programming languages such as Python, R, or Java 
•Exposure to Data Catalogs, or Data Governance tools (such as Alation, Collibra, Atlan, Informatica, etc.) 
•Experience with technical writing, release notes, training materials or other internal communications 
•Experience working with relational database systems, and proficiency with SQL 
•Experience with reporting and data visualization tools such as PowerBI, Tableau, WEBi 
•Experience with agile methodology and experience with associated planning like Jira and Confluence

Crocs is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment.   

Title: Data Governance Analyst

Job Level:  P2

Career Level: CL4 

Salary Range:  $95,000 - $110,000

Workplace Persona:  Collaborator (hybrid work schedule; in office 60-80%)

This position is eligible to participate in a company incentive program.  

This position is eligible for company benefits including but not limited to medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and AD&D, short and long-term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program that includes company match, and many other additional voluntary benefits.