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Role: Business Process & Governance Engineer
Location: Atlanta, GA (Remote)
Work Mode: Remote
Required Skills:
- Proven work experience designing, implementing, or improving business processes, workflows, or governance frameworks. Required. 4 yrs.
- Proven work experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to drive adoption of new processes or initiatives. Required. 4 yrs.
- Proven work experience independently identifying gaps and building solutions without an established playbook. Required. 3 yrs.
- Experience with data, information, or AI governance, compliance, or risk-related work. Highly desired. 2 yrs.
- Experience in higher education or another complex, decentralized institutional environment. Highly desired. 2 yrs.
Partners across the enterprise to build and strengthen governance capabilities across data, information, and emerging AI programs - translating ambiguous needs into practical processes, documentation, and tools.
Why This Role Exists: We're growing our governance function across multiple programs - Data Governance, Information Governance, and AI Governance - each at a different point in its journey, some established and maturing, others being built from the ground up. This role offers the chance to do both: strengthen what's working and shape what's still being defined, moving between programs as priorities shift.
Job Summary: Partners across business, IT, privacy, security, and other units to build and strengthen governance capabilities across Data, Information, and AI Governance programs - from established initiatives to those still taking shape. Takes direction and runs with it, translating ambiguous or evolving needs into practical processes, documentation, and tools with minimal day-to-day oversight.
Position Duties: Design and implement governance processes, workflows, and documentation for programs across a range of maturity - from established to still-forming. Translate business needs into practical frameworks, tools, and training materials. Partner with stakeholders across technical and non-technical audiences to drive adoption. Operate with significant autonomy - identify gaps, propose solutions, and execute without a predefined playbook. Flex across programs as priorities shift, applying the same core skill set to different levels of ambiguity and structure.
Required Skills: Quickly grasps governance, policy, or regulatory requirements and translates them into clear processes, documentation, guides, and stakeholder conversations. Comfortable building structure from ambiguity; doesn't wait to be told what to do. Strong process design, documentation, and analytical skills. Skilled communicator who adapts across technical and executive audiences. Self-directed, results-oriented, adaptable to shifting priorities.
Preferred Skills: Experience in higher education or another complex, decentralized institutional environment. Exposure to governance, compliance, or risk-related work (data, information, or AI).
Qualifications: 5-8 years of experience in business process, governance, compliance, IT business analysis, or a related field. Bachelor's degree preferred (any field); higher education experience as a student or employee is a plus. Equivalent professional experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.