Data Governance Lead
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- Full-time
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- 8 hour shift
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Data Governance Lead
Job Summary
Xendat is looking for a Lead Data Governance (Pharma/Healthcare) for a long-term contract role (C2C) with one of our clients. The position is remote.
The Lead Data Governance will provide leadership and applies broad expertise in Information Technology disciplines to provide a vital force in the growth and delivery of Enterprise Data Governance and Data Literacy Programs. In addition to team management and personnel development, this person is responsible to build trust and credibility with business and IT partners. These relationships, combined with business awareness and a value focus, enable the candidate to influence culture and leverage data assets to drive value.
1. Maintain value focus and provide leadership, vision, and expertise to define strategic and tactical direction for Data Governance and Data Literacy Programs.
2. Create plans; direct committees and Operating Framework; manage team; drive issue resolution; maintain performance metrics; lead Program and Project planning for Data Governance and Data Literacy Programs; drive to increase enterprise capabilities and maturity.
3. Demonstrate expertise in Data Governance best practices, principles, IT standards, and IT best practices in complex IT organizations.
4. Demonstrates a working knowledge of Business Case development, system implementations, requirements analysis, database design, data reporting and data analysis.
5. Understand business drivers and Operations; exhibit executive presence, strong relationship building aligned with business partners, a focus on collaboration ensuring executive engagement, strategic alignment, business value and delivering a pervasive Data Governance/Literacy culture .
6. Drive Data Governance solutions through policy development, data asset metadata documentation, procedural standards, by working with colleagues in the business, IT Development, Compliance, Security, Data Warehousing, communications/training, among others.
Specific Responsibilities For This Role Include
Responsibilities
· Participate in the implementation of the strategy, solution, design, build and operations for Data Governance program.
· Manage relationships with senior stakeholders (Sr. director and above) across the organization
· Create strategic capability roadmaps and execution plans
· Serve as the enterprise lead working with business and IT teams to collaborate on data governance policies.
· Participate in the definition of and maintain Data Governance policies and Standards, ensuring that governance assets are understood, developed, and used in efficient and functional manner.
· Work with business stakeholders to define data stewardship roles, especially data stewards and custodians.
· Understand the current business and data landscape.
· Lead interviews and workshops for discovery, and consensus building.
· Liaison with team, ensuring synchronization on timelines, and dependencies.
· Ensure the Data Governance Program aligns with executive vision.
· Demonstrate the ability to adapt and work with team members of various experience level.
· Ability to articulate and interact with non-technical business users on their data needs.
· Create and maintain data catalog and metadata to support and communicate data assets to stakeholders
· Experience in drafting and managing data policies, business data processes and business glossaries
· Experience driving change for data governance including: project/program management, change management and change readiness,
Qualifications Basic Requirements:
· Strong collaboration and communications skills, ability to engage with others.
· Ability to resolve complex problems and break them down to create and implement an action plan.
· Ability to lead data related project activities.
· Self-Starter who can work in ambiguous situations and drive to a solution.
· Strong organizational skills and ability to advance multiple work streams concurrently.
· Proficient in authoring, editing, and presenting technical documents.
· Bachelor’s Degree in the field of computer science, management information systems, or computer engineering
· 5 years of experience in data governance leadership or management roles.
· Solid understanding of Data Governance processes and principles, with the ability to effectively communicate and advocate those ideas to others.
· Demonstrated success working in a team-based environment.
· Requires strong decision-making, organizational, planning, and problem-solving skills.
· Excellent analytical skills are required.
· Strong facilitation and negotiation skills are required.
· Strong interpersonal skills, with competence in interfacing with business users required.
· Ability to summarize and present design alternatives.
· Significant experience in data requirements gathering and facilitation of business data definitions
· Cross-BU and/or diversity of job experiences
· Proven track record of delivering business performance
· Demonstrated history of leading innovation/transformation
· Drive for optimization/excellence
· Delivery of exceptional customer services and experiences
· Track record for building strong cultures
· Strong ability to drive collaboration and foster highly productive, functional relationships internally and beyond.
· Demonstrated agility and ability to drive program completion in expedited timelines
Preferred Qualifications:
· Experience with related information management disciplines (e.g. data quality management, metadata management, master data management, reference data management,…)
· Experience with common Data Governance technologies and tools (Collibra, Axon, Alation,…).
· Experience with pharma or/and health care data
Job Types: Contract, Full-time
Pay: $80.00 - $90.00 per hour
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
Application Question(s):
- How many years of experience do you have with data governance and catalog tools?
- How many years of work experience do u have in the Healthcare or Pharma
industry?
Education:
- Bachelor's (Preferred)
Experience:
- Data Governance: 5 years (Preferred)
Work Location: Remote
Application Deadline: 11/27/2021