Data Governance Advisor - Forsyth Health - Remote

The Cigna Group; United States; On-site; USD 98,000 - 164,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Life insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Job summary

The Cigna Group is seeking a Senior Data Governance professional to lead data governance, quality, and metadata initiatives across health data domains. You will partner with business and technology teams to codify terms, lineage, and stewardship, leveraging Collibra or similar platforms.

Responsibilities include advancing governance programs, building quality dashboards, and enabling responsible AI governance. The role emphasizes collaboration, scalable processes, and clear documentation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data governance, data management, data quality, metadata management, or a related discipline.
• 3+ years of experience with large-scale healthcare data (claims, pharmacy, eligibility, provider, or clinical data).
• Advanced SQL skills for data analysis, quality investigation, and automated validation.
• Experience with Python for data analysis, automation, monitoring, or governance workflows.
• Experience with Databricks or a comparable cloud analytics platform.
• Experience implementing or administering data governance platforms such as Collibra, Alation, Informatica, or similar.
• Knowledge of data stewardship, metadata management, glossary, data lineage, policy governance, and data quality practices.
• Ability to explain complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences and manage multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Advance enterprise data governance initiatives to improve data trust, transparency, ownership, and accountability.
• Partner with stakeholders to define and govern business terms, metadata, critical data elements, data lineage, and ownership.
• Administer and enhance governance platforms (e.g., Collibra) to strengthen cataloging and workflows.
• Operationalize governance processes for stewardship, issue management, data classification, and controls.
• Build data quality monitoring and automated validation solutions using SQL, Python, Databricks, and cloud platforms.
• Identify root causes of data quality issues with data teams and implement sustainable solutions.
• Define governance standards, policies, and practical guidance for teams.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Python

Databricks

Collibra

Data governance

Data quality

Stakeholder mgmt

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Collibra

Alation

Informatica

Databricks

Job description

Help us build trusted, well-managed data that supports better decisions across the organization. In this role, you will bring data governance, data quality, and metadata practices to life by partnering with business and technology teams. You will strengthen ownership, transparency, and accountability while exploring responsible ways to use emerging capabilities, including agentic AI, to improve governance and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Advance enterprise data governance initiatives that improve data trust, transparency, ownership, and accountability.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to define and govern business terms, technical metadata, critical data elements, data lineage, and ownership structures.
• Administer and enhance governance platforms such as Collibra to strengthen cataloging, metadata management, stewardship workflows, policy management, and adoption.
• Operationalize governance processes for data stewardship, issue management, data classification, and governance controls.
• Build and improve data quality monitoring and automated validation solutions using SQL, Python, Databricks, and cloud-based data platforms.
• Work with data engineering, analytics, and business teams to identify the root causes of data quality issues and implement sustainable solutions.
• Define and communicate clear governance standards, policies, procedures, and practical guidance that teams can apply consistently.
• Develop governance metrics, dashboards, and leadership communications that show data quality health, risks, progress, and opportunities.
• Evaluate emerging capabilities, including agentic and generative AI, to increase governance automation and scale while supporting responsible AI practices.
• Facilitate governance working sessions, stewardship forums, and stakeholder discussions that build alignment, adoption, and continuous improvement.
• Maintain clear documentation for data definitions, validation methods, metadata standards, governance processes, and operating models.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders and partners on data governance, metadata, data quality, and responsible AI governance.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data governance, data management, data quality, metadata management, or a related discipline.
• 3+ years of experience working with large-scale healthcare data, such as claims, pharmacy, eligibility, provider, or clinical data.
• Advanced SQL skills, including experience analyzing data, investigating quality issues, and developing automated validation solutions.
• Experience using Python for data analysis, automation, monitoring, or governance workflows.
• Experience with Databricks or a comparable cloud analytics platform.
• Experience implementing or administering a data governance platform such as Collibra, Alation, Informatica, or a similar solution.
• Working knowledge of data stewardship, metadata management, business glossaries, data lineage, policy governance, and data quality practices.
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences and manage multiple priorities independently.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information systems, computer science, data science, business analytics, healthcare informatics, or a related field.
• Experience operationalizing an enterprise metadata management program, especially with Collibra or a similar platform.
• Experience supporting data governance in a healthcare organization and familiarity with HIPAA, PHI, and PII requirements.
• Experience with agentic AI, generative AI, AI governance, or AI-enabled workflow automation.
• Experience with Databricks Unity Catalog, data lineage solutions, or modern cloud data ecosystems.
• Experience with data quality monitoring, anomaly detection, governance scorecards, councils, or stewardship forums.

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.

For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 98,200 - 163,600 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.

This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus plan.

At The Cigna Group, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you’ll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k), company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year, paid holidays, and leaves of absence. For more details on our employee benefits programs, click here.

About Evernorth Health Services

Evernorth Health Services, a division of The Cigna Group, creates pharmacy, care and benefit solutions to improve health and increase vitality. We relentlessly innovate to make the prediction, prevention and treatment of illness and disease more accessible to millions of people. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

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