Full Time, 40 Hours/week
Monday - Friday, DaysHybrid 2-3 days Onsite Akron, OH
Summary:Senior-level role responsible for guiding and advancing the organization's enterprise data governance program. This role provides strategic and operational leadership to ensure data is trusted, secure, well-defined, and aligned with regulatory and organizational requirements.
Serves as a key liaison between clinical, operational, and technical stakeholders, driving governance initiatives that support patient care, regulatory compliance, research, and data-driven decision-making. This role leads data governance workgroups, mentors team members, and ensures adoption of governance frameworks, tools, and best practices across the hospital.
Responsibilities:- Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of the enterprise data governance framework, platforms, policies, standards, and operating procedures to support regulatory reporting, audits, accreditation requirements, and enterprise data strategy.
- Ensure data governance initiatives align with organizational priorities, healthcare regulatory requirements, privacy standards, and applicable requirements such as HIPAA and Joint Commission standards.
- Establish, maintain, and mature governance models, including data ownership, stewardship structures, accountability frameworks, and decision-making processes.
- Provide leadership, direction, prioritization, and mentorship to analysts, developers, engineers, and other contributors supporting data governance initiatives.
- Oversee enterprise data quality programs, including defining metrics, thresholds, monitoring processes, and improvement strategies across clinical, financial, and operational domains.
- Partner with compliance, legal, security, and operational teams to ensure appropriate handling of protected health information (PHI), mitigate data risks, and improve data integrity, consistency, and usability.
- Lead and facilitate enterprise and domain-specific data governance workgroups, including clinical, revenue cycle, and quality groups, to drive decisions on data definitions, standards, and quality improvements.
- Serve as a primary point of contact for senior leaders, directors, and cross-functional teams on data governance matters, priorities, and issue resolution.
- Drive organizational adoption of governance practices through effective communication, training, stakeholder engagement, and change management strategies.
- Define standards and best practices for metadata management, business glossary development, data lineage, data classification, and governance documentation.
- Oversee onboarding and governance of critical data assets within catalog tools, ensuring appropriate stewardship, documentation, usability, and ongoing maintenance.
- Define, monitor, and report KPIs for data governance effectiveness while leading continuous improvement initiatives to enhance governance processes, workflows, and stakeholder engagement.
Other information:
Technical Expertise- Advanced knowledge of data governance frameworks, including data quality, metadata management, master/reference data, and stewardship models.
- Strong understanding of healthcare data ecosystems, including EHR systems (e.g., Epic), regulatory reporting, and clinical/operational workflows.
- Hands-on experience with data governance tools such as Alation, Collibra, Informatica, or Databricks Unity Catalog.
- Proficiency in data analysis and reporting tools (e.g., SQL, Power BI, Excel) to assess data quality and governance metrics.
- Ability to translate complex technical concepts into actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders.
- Demonstrated experience leading data governance initiatives, programs, or teams.
- Prior experience in a healthcare setting strongly preferred.
Education and Experience- Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Healthcare Informatics, or a related field required. Master's degree preferred.
- Licensure: NA
- Certification: NA
- Years of relevant experience: Minimum five years of experience in data governance, analytics, business intelligence or related field.
- Years of supervisory experience: None
Full Time
FTE: 1.000000
Status: Remote
