Data Governance & Metadata Specialist

Ohio State University; United States; On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement plans

Health insurance

Paid leave

Loan forgiveness

Job summary

Ohio State University, Health System Shared Services | Analytics Center of Excellence, seeks a Data Governance Specialist to support the enterprise data governance program, administer the data catalog, and ensure data assets are trusted, discoverable, and well-documented for human and AI use.

The role collaborates across clinical, financial, operational, and research domains, provides training to data stewards, supports governance workflows, and monitors metadata completeness and data quality to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a relevant field plus 2 years in data governance or data management roles.

Responsibilities

• Managing business and technical metadata
• Maintaining business glossaries, data definitions, metrics, ownership, classifications, and lineage
• Supporting data stewardship, certification, and governance workflows
• Monitoring metadata and data quality
• Coordinating resolution of governance issues with data owners, subject matter experts, analysts, and technical teams
• Promoting consistent definitions and appropriate use across enterprise data domains

Skills

Data governance

Metadata management

Data management

Analytics

Business intelligence

Data quality

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Data catalog

Job description

Ohio State University, Health System Shared Services | Analytics Center of Excellence, seeks a Data Governance Specialist to support the enterprise data governance program, administer the data catalog, and ensure data assets are trusted, discoverable, and well-documented for human and AI use.

The role collaborates across clinical, financial, operational, and research domains, provides training to data stewards, supports governance workflows, and monitors metadata completeness and data quality to