National Grid

Analyst, Data Governance

National Grid$98K — $115K *
Energy & Utilities
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Lean Six Sigma/Continuous Process Improvement expertise, including process mapping and control implementation
  • 3-5 years of relevant business experience within digital product teams
  • Proven experience in creating and refining business value cases
  • Background in defining and testing product assumptions effectively
  • Minimum 2 years of experience working in the utility sector
  • Bachelor's degree in data science, technology, or engineering.

Responsibilities

  • Support governance of National Grid's Gas data through end-to-end review and triage of data impact
  • Manage forums and facilitate deep dive analysis of data-related issues
  • Participate in Agile sprints, contributing to work stream team dynamics
  • Assist in sprint planning with the Scrum team, defining key activities for objective achievement
  • Construct comprehensive business cases with value projections aligned with product specs
  • Identify high-risk assumptions and support product teams in validating these assumptions through experiments
  • Develop detailed future-state and current-state process documentation for operations.

Benefits

  • Career advancement opportunities within and across bands
  • Support for professional development and technical skills acquisition
  • Engagement in a dynamic work environment with Agile methodologies
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams within the organization.
Full Job Description
Job Purpose

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.

Key Accountabilities

  • 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)


Qualifications

  • 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


More Information

Salary

Upstate, NY $87,000 - $102,000

New England $98,000 - $115,000

Downstate, NY $102,000 - $123,000 a year

National Grid utilizes an assessment that evaluates the job qualifications/characteristics using AI or statistically based scoring. For more information, please view NYC Local Law 144.

This position has a career path which provides for advancement opportunities within and across bands as you develop and evolve in the position; gaining experience, expertise and acquiring and applying technical skills. Candidates will be assessed and provided offers against the minimum qualifications of this role and their individual experience.

About National Grid

National Grid plc is a British multinational electricity and gas utility company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Its principal activities are in the United Kingdom (where it owns and operates electricity and gas transmission networks) and in the Northeastern United States (where as well as operating transmission networks, the company is a producer and supplier of electricity and gas). National Grid has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange, and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It had a market capitalisation of approximately £31.4 billion as of 23 September 2021, the 26th-largest of any company with a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange.
Learn more about National Grid
Size
23,500 employees
Market Cap
$44 billion
Industry
Net Income
$1.4 billion
5 Year Trend
+4%
Revenue
$14.7 billion

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