Director, Data Governance

• This role is part of the data & analytics leadership team reporting directly to the CDAO and in direct service to the enterprise analytics governance council

• Key player in the setup and administration of an organizational data governance program initiative to promote and manage data as an asset, and building a data-informed culture

• Responsible for leading and managing all organization-wide data and analytics governance activities and will have responsibility for improving the quality and managing the protection of enterprise data assets

• Works directly with the SCRUM leadership team to coordinate priorities.

• Responsible for establishing and driving a data governance program strategy, operating framework, and roadmap

• Work closely with organization leaders and business teams to ensure adoption of appropriate data and analytics governance training to their teams

• Improve data literacy across the organization, and enable self service

• Establish customized data and analytics governance workflows

• Define and work with stakeholders to build and activate a governance program communication and change management plan

• Promote and administer policies and processes required to manage data and analytics assets

• Collaborate with data owners, stewards, curators, and other governance stakeholders to provide effective and efficient facilitation and guidance for governance operating practices

• Actively participates in maturing the data and analytics governance program and supports transparent documentation of and communication of data lineage, metadata management, master data management, etc.

• Ensures standardization, consistency and commonality for the data definitions, attributes, metrics and assets

• Partner with data management and analytics delivery teams to ensure self-service and governance operating processes are embedded in the solutions development lifecycle and program adoption

• Provide self-service and governance training materials for the organizational data fluency needs

• Participating in Business/Functional Workgroups for establishing data governance with their metrics and reporting needs

• Create governance training and consulting materials for work groups and data citizens

• Participate in project teams as necessary and assist with timely delivery and project timelines.

• Lead Data Governance team members directly to this role

• Coaching, mentoring, development of staff

• Annual performance reviews of staff

• Performs other duties as assigned

• Visionary: Demonstrates the ability to see, articulate and share the future of the organization in ways that engage and motivate those around them with a clear vision and plan for the future.

• Passionate: Demonstrates genuine enthusiasm for and excitement about the work; gets others excited about work or projects they're involved in and working on.

• Compassionate: Demonstrates empathy and kindness towards others; makes the effort to understand where someone else is coming from

• Committed: Demonstrates dedication to the job, project, organization, customer/clients and co-workers.

• Team Player: Proactively seek to work with others to accomplish a common goal. Willingness to share challenges and successes with others.

• Knowledge of Data Quality Principles and Methodologies, Data Profiling, Data Lineage, Metric Tractability, etc.

• Knowledge of Data Governance Concepts, Processes, Policies & Framework

• Knowledge of Data Security and Access Policies and Practices

• Experience in Executing Data Governance or Stewardship Programs

• Experience in a customer facing role (internal or external)

• Experience working and bringing Executive to a consensus

• Experience using any Data Governance product suite is a desired

• Experience in Metric Development, Dashboard Creation and Automation using Governance Tools is a plus

• Project management skills and experience with Agile Project Management methodology is preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in healthcare, information systems, information technology, business administration or related field. Master’s degree preferred.

• 7-9 years of experience in Data Governance & Stewardship, Enterprise Data Management or Master Data Management. Healthcare experience is preferred.

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