Data Governance Engineer Senior

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WI-REMOTE

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Summary:

Ensures data is consistently structured, organized, and maintained to support organizational decisions and provides aid to clients. May be responsible for the daily activities of a team of data governance analysts. Guides the development and execution of a data governance framework that enables the ability to actively govern data, build consensus on organizing data assets, and train the firm to adopt data governance best practices. Establishes the vision and execution of the system data and analytics data governance strategy by researching and documenting data policies and standards, developing and populating metadata artifacts, maturing data quality initiatives, and supporting the activation of data stewardship. Works in close partnership with technology and business partners, to actively support initiatives to implement data governance frameworks and champion a data-centric culture. May be required to represent organization on discussion panels as well as facilitate workgroups/committees.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collects, analyzes, and understands data from multiple internal and external sources. Serves as an advisor within and across functional teams across organization.
• Manages the translation of business needs/requirements into technical specifications to ensure data integration standardization.
• Clearly defines KPIs, governed data elements and business/technical owners for accountability.  Ensures management and standardization of master data naming conventions, security classifications.  Researches, analyzes and understands entity business flow for solution development.
• Influences department strategy on data governance and other functional areas. Leads data stewardship groups to deliver on prioritized data governance activities.
• Owns strategic projects autonomously.  Coaches and develops talent.  Leads junior talent in delivering on business-critical initiatives.
• Leads adoption of DG policies and processes for managing enterprise data with project teams.  Leads DG and data stewardship education/training with business committees and project teams.
• Facilitates cross-functional data definitions and standardization to ensure data integrity across organization.
• Designs and recommends data quality improvement opportunities.
• Creates, tracks and monitors DG and stewardship metrics.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience

EXPERIENCE

• Ten years’ experience

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS 

• None

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Employee

Department:

8810040033 BI Analytics and Reporting

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Benefits:

SSM Health values our exceptional employees by offering a comprehensive benefits package to fit their needs.

• Paid Parental Leave: we offer eligible team members one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE). 

• Flexible Payment Options: our voluntary benefit offered through DailyPay offers eligible hourly team members instant access to their earned, unpaid base pay (fees may apply) before payday.

• Upfront Tuition Coverage: we provide upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members. 

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