Data Governance Analyst 2

Inova Health; United States; Remote; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement match

Education assistance

Mental health support

Paid time off

Job summary

Inova Health is seeking a Data Governance Analyst 2 to join our team in a full-time, days role. This position supports the data governance office, defines standards, and promotes a data-driven culture while collaborating with stakeholders to improve data usage.

The ideal candidate will have an associate degree or equivalent experience, 3 years in healthcare or analytics operations, and EPIC certification within six months of hire. Remote work eligibility is available for certain states.

Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare or business environments with data access, data quality, or metadata management.
• Knowledge of governance, data management, or analytics operations preferred.
• Epic security and Epic Certification experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Support the data governance office in defining policies, standards, processes, and metrics.
• Develop quality data practices and work with business to define thresholds for success.
• Promote a data-driven culture and collaborate with stakeholders for improvement.
• Maintain governance documentation, standards, and guidance for consistent data usage.

Skills

Data governance

Healthcare data

Policy development

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Associate degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Inova Health is looking for a dedicated Data Governance Analyst 2 to join the team. This role is Full-time Days working regular office hours Monday to Friday fully Remote.

This position is eligible for remote work for candidates residing in the following states - VA, MD, DC, DE, FL, GA, NC, OH, PA, SC, TN, TX, WV.

Inova is consistently ranked a national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation.

Featured Benefits:

• Committed to Team Member Health: offering medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program.


• Retirement: Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions - starting on your first day.


• Tuition and Student Loan Assistance: offering up to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans.


• Mental Health Support: offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.


• Work/Life Balance: offering paid time off, paid parental leave, flexible work schedules.

Data Governance Analyst 2 Job Responsibilities:

• Support the data governance office in defining and developing policies, standards, processes, and metrics.


• Develop quality data practices and work with business to define acceptable thresholds for success.


• Recommend and implement strategies to promote a data-driven culture within the organization.


• Collaborate with stakeholders to assess understanding of data and identify opportunities for improvement.


• Supports development of governance documentation, standards, and guidance to promote consistent data usage across the organization.


• Maintain awareness of Inova's Data Asset Inventories, Catalogs, Business Glossaries, Data Lineage including documentation of data architecture.


• Monitor metrics related to use of Inova's data assets.


• Provide practice knowledge guidance to Junior analysts as needed.


• Supports data access controls across analytics and enterprise platforms.


• Reviews and validates access requests (e.g., PROD vs NON-PROD, reports, dashboards, data extracts).


• Applies role-based access governance and least privilege standards while identifying potential risk gaps or policy exceptions.


• Partners directly with Information Security, Compliance, Audit, and technical teams on governance-related reviews and remediation activities.


• Supports governance decisions related to data sharing, outbound data usage, and sensitive data handling practices.


• Maintains and improves governance controls, documentation standards, and audit readiness processes.


• Identifies trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement related to data governance and access management practices.


• Partners with Information Security and IT to align governance processes with security policies.

Minimum Requirements:

• Education: Associate degree OR 2 years relevant professional experience in addition to the minimum Experience requirement


• Experience : 3 years of experience in healthcare or business environment AND 2 years of experience working with data access, data quality, or metadata management processes or with data governance, data management, or analytics operations.


• Certification : EPIC certified within six months of hire.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Epic Security and Epic Certification preferred***


• Analytics security administration and user access management.


• Role-based access control (RBAC), security provisioning, and permission management.


• Epic analytics security (Cogito, Radar, Reporting Workbench, SlicerDicer, or related Epic security experience preferred).


• Troubleshooting user access issues and partnering with technical teams to resolve security-related requests.


• Understanding of least-privilege access principles, compliance, and audit readiness.


• Working with Active Directory/security groups and access request workflows.


• Documentation of security standards, access procedures, and governance processes.