Our client is a leader in the healthcare industry and is looking to add another analyst to their data governance team. This individual will work closely with their data engineering teams to better understand the various nuances of healthcare data. We are looking for a professional, local to California, with high-level data governance experience and a strong personality that can help navigate approaching business conversations.
Your Work
In this role, you will:
- Take ownership, plan and lead subject area information modeling to support Enterprise Information Model. Create and maintain Conceptual and Logical/Canonical models with attribution.
- Lead facilitation sessions with business Subject Matter Experts for clarity of definitions in the business taxonomy. Provide input into Business Term definitions in partnership with data stewards and subject matter experts.
- Maintain, grow, and modify as needed an enterprise-wide data governance framework, with a focus on improvement of data quality and trust through modifications to organization behavior, policies and standards, governance metrics, processes, and related tools
- Use models and business taxonomy to promote data literacy to benefit stakeholders across IT developers, analytics creators and business consumers.
- Create and maintain data governance policies, playbook(s), processes, and procedures for guiding various data management processes, including the adoption of data security and privacy, data quality practices, and data dissemination activities
- Responsible for defining data quality checks and data reconciliation rules in partnership with technical data asset owners and data engineers to ensure data integrity is maintained during transit and at rest
- Engage with stakeholders across the organization to identify data quality needs, draft requirements, assist in the development of data quality checks, track, monitor, and report of the overall health of data in the organization
- Perform impact analysis of regulatory, business, corrective action plans, and system changes on the Enterprise Data Governance program, respective data domains, and relevant data governance policies and procedures within the context of enterprise data
- Assist with preparation of material for regular core team and key governance forums (e.g., Enterprise Data Governance Steering Committee, Data Steward Council) to review progress and initiatives with key constituents.
Your Knowledge and Experience
- Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and 7+ years of prior relevant experience
- Experience with data governance, master data management, and data quality processes and procedures and writing policies and 5+ years in business analysis or data analysis
- Ability to understand internal and external drivers for changes to data governance policies
- Possesses advanced knowledge and experience large-scale data architecture, master data management, data quality and data reconciliation efforts and similar projects or programs of significant complexity
- Proficient on querying and extracting data from repositories such as Netezza, Oracle, SQL Server, etc
- Ability to communicate and articulate complex quantitative analysis in a clear, precise, and actionable manner
- Proven collaborator with strong interpersonal skills, works collaboratively within the team and outside the team
- Excellent presentation, written, and verbal communication skills which bring clarity and precision at all levels within the organization
- Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills to recognize and comprehend complex issues, policies, regulatory requirements, and industry information affecting the business environment
- Experience in healthcare is a plus