Data Governance Leader: Standards, Quality & Stewardship

DBHIDS; Philadelphia, Northern (Philadelphia County, KY); On-site; USD 75,000 - 101,000; Full time

Job summary

CBH seeks a Manager of Data Governance to lead and advance the enterprise data governance program, aligning governance standards, policies, and data models with business needs across analytics and operations. You will bridge business logic with technical data structures and supervise staff to ensure disciplined governance across data ownership, quality, and semantic modeling.

The role partners with Data Analytics, Informatics, IT, and business stakeholders to embed governance into processes,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, data science, public health, business, information management, or related field required; Master’s preferred.
• Equivalent combinations of education and relevant experience may be considered.

Responsibilities

• Manage the daily operation and continuous improvement of CBH’s enterprise data governance program.
• Establish and maintain governance policies, standards, processes, roles, decision rights, and accountability.
• Operationalize and execute the enterprise data governance roadmap and priorities established by the Sr. Director, managing day-to-day documentation and tracking defined measures of program effectiveness.
• Identify and elevate governance risks, gaps, and unresolved issues.
• Facilitate governance committees and working groups and ensure decisions are documented and implemented.
• Establish and maintain enterprise data definitions, business rules, metrics, metadata, lineage, and related governance assets including business glossaries, libraries and catalogues.
• Define and maintain lightweight business and semantic data models that establish relationships among key data elements, business concepts, measures, and data domains.
• Promote consistent interpretation and use of data across operational, regulatory, reporting, and analytics functions through common definitions, business rules, metrics, and semantic models.
• Establish data quality standards and processes for identifying, prioritizing, and resolving data quality issues.
• Establish and maintain clear data ownership and stewardship practices, including roles, responsibilities, and accountability.
• Partner with data owners, stewards, technical teams, and business stakeholders to address data quality, semantic, and governance concerns.
• Partner with both the Data Architect and the Data Informatics team to ensure business and semantic data models align with technical data structures and organizational requirements.
• Ensure data governance requirements are incorporated into reporting, analytics, new systems, integrations, and business initiatives.
• Review significant changes to data elements, metrics, reporting logic, business rules, and business processes for governance and semantic implications.
• Promote consistent application of approved definitions, business rules, and metrics across reports, dashboards, analytic products, and related processes.
• Develop data literacy, training, and guidance to support appropriate interpretation and use of CBH data.
• Communicate governance standards, decisions, risks, and expectations to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Build strong partnerships across Data Analytics, Informatics, IT, Data Architecture, and business functions.
• Facilitate resolution of competing definitions, ownership, quality, semantic, and data-use requirements.
• Influence stakeholders and establish accountability across the organization without relying solely on formal authority.
• Represent Data Governance in cross-functional initiatives and external and interagency data partnerships, as appropriate.
• Supervise, coach, and develop assigned staff and ensure effective delivery of team priorities.

Skills

Data governance

Data quality

Stakeholder management

Project management

Metadata & glossary

Data modeling concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Data catalog tools

DAMADMBOK knowledge

Job description

CBH seeks a Manager of Data Governance to lead and advance the enterprise data governance program, aligning governance standards, policies, and data models with business needs across analytics and operations. You will bridge business logic with technical data structures and supervise staff to ensure disciplined governance across data ownership, quality, and semantic modeling.

The role partners with Data Analytics, Informatics, IT, and business stakeholders to embed governance into processes,