Data Governance Specialist
HybridDover, Delaware, United States
Job Summary
Coordinate and facilitate collaboration across executive leadership, legal teams, and cross-functional internal teams to develop a tailored health data governance framework. Conduct comprehensive assessments of current practices, policies, and procedures to inventory documentation and identify gaps and risks. Oversee division-wide data governance by establishing protocols for data ownership, integrity, usability, consistency, validity, and security. Lead the development of clear policies, procedures, and guidelines for data management, privacy, and compliance, while maintaining inventories of data dictionaries, metadata, and master data management systems. Research best practices from other jurisdictions to adapt them to DPH requirements, including health equity considerations. Ensure data stewards and key partners receive necessary training and resources to perform effectively on data management responsibilities. Contribute to a five-year strategic plan for adopting public health best practices and collaborate with IT, legal, and business units to promote data governance and modernization.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in health administration, computer science, information systems, computer engineering, operations management or related field
- Minimum of 5 years of related experience in data governance, data management, data architecture, data integration, master data management, data quality, and metadata management with a focus on public health, healthcare, or government data systems
- Experience developing and documenting data governance processes and procedures
- Experience and/or knowledge of data governance practices, business and technology issues related to management of enterprise information assets and approaches related to data protection
- Experience and/or knowledge of data-related federal and state regulatory requirements and emerging trends and issues
- Experience coordinating data governance for or directly managing data management documentation for data systems, metadata, and metadata standards (e.g. file layouts, data dictionaries, data attributes, data user policies, data management policies)
- Experience collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams for information gathering, input, and decision making around change and risk management initiatives and roll-out
- Understanding of data privacy laws and regulatory requirements related to public health data, including Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule and other relevant privacy regulations
Desired Qualifications
- Additional related professional experience OR Masters degree or higher in public or business administration, organizational leadership, law, or a closely related field
- Prior experience building a data governance program from the ground up
- Experience developing and implementing change initiatives and process improvements, preferably change related to technology system
- Experience with large-scale data governance, project management and oversight
- Advanced understanding of data management, confidentiality, compliance, laws and regulations such as, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
- Ability to effectively communicate both data and health concepts, like healthcare, public health, or epidemiology, bidirectionally with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience partnering and collaborating at the management level with internal and external staff, public health partners e.g., federal, state, local, and tribes
- Strong understanding of data-related technical concepts and systems
- Outstanding interpersonal and teamwork skills; and the ability to develop productive working relationships with colleagues and partners
- Experience in working with legal teams to draft, review, and implement data use agreements and data sharing frameworks
- Certification in data governance, master data management, or related field
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