Data Steward

AHU Technologies Inc; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology solutions provider is seeking a Data Steward to oversee data management practices. This role requires 16+ years of experience and a Bachelor's degree in IT. The ideal candidate will have extensive knowledge of data governance, healthcare data, and strong analytical skills. Responsibilities include implementing data quality metrics and ensuring compliance with privacy regulations. This position is remote and offers an opportunity to make significant impacts within the organization.

Qualifications

• 16+ years planning, coordinating, and monitoring project activities.
• Experience with ETL tools and healthcare data.
• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define policies for data management.
• Implement data quality metrics and strategies.
• Coordinate efforts to meet privacy and security regulations.

Skills

Data management principles

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Data governance knowledge

ETL tools experience

Healthcare data knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office

Tableau

Curam software

MS Project

Visio

Job description

Overview

The Client is looking for a Data Steward to support critical data driven activities across the different data sources leveraged by the Client System.

Responsibilities

• Operational Oversight: Define and implement policies and procedures for the day-to-day management of systems and data, including intake, storage, processing, and transmission of data to internal and external systems. Define and document data and terminology in a relevant glossary, ensuring each critical data element has a clear definition and remains in use.
• Develop and implement strategies to assess and develop rules to maintain data quality, integrity, and reliability.
• Coordinate cross-agency efforts to ensure official agency records requirements, privacy, security, and related requirements are met.
• Provide oversight to ensure data issues, needs and requirements are documented.
• Data Quality: Establish data-quality metrics and requirements, define acceptable values for each data element, and collaborate to detect and correct data-quality issues. Contribute to policies, procedures, and internal controls affecting data quality.
• Ongoing evaluation of data quality, identify anomalies, determine root causes, and implement corrective measures.
• Coordinate with Client program teams and Stakeholder Agencies to ensure quality and integrity of data elements (content and metadata) to support implementation.
• Facilitate the creation of data standards based on business rules, data access security requirements, and retention of legacy data.
• Privacy, Security, and Risk Management: Establish guidelines and protocols to enforce privacy controls, compile retention, archival, and disposal requirements, and ensure compliance with policy and regulations. Implement data curation practices balancing transparency and privacy.
• Review agency and interagency data-related work products; coordinate cross-agency efforts to meet privacy, security, and related data requirements.
• Policies and Procedures: Define policies for access to Client data, including authorization criteria by role or individual. Work with IT, Privacy, and PMO to establish controls and report breaches or vulnerabilities.
• Monitor and analyze application of federal, state, and local data requirements, standards, and rules; interpret business needs into data requirements; present findings to leadership and stakeholders with recommendations.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications and Skills

• Knowledge of good data management principles, concepts, and practices; ability to determine business data requirements, create data standards and business rules.
• Knowledge of human services and health care programs; ability to work with multiple agency stakeholders and understand data requirements.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook); knowledge of statistics or research methodology.
• Analytical and problem-solving abilities; ability to drive change in a dynamic environment; ability to explain digital concepts to business leaders and vice versa.
• Generally broad experience in data governance, data quality, data architecture, data security and privacy, and related domains; familiarity with government programs preferred.
• Preferred: government knowledge and experience.

Contract Details

• Responsibilities include IT project management coordination, planning, monitoring, development of technical applications, standards and procedures, training, upgrades, and operations support in line with District standards.
• Skills and Experience:
• 16+ years planning, coordinating, and monitoring project activities (Required).
• Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience (Required).
• ETL tools design, development, and analysis experience (Required).
• Experience with Curam software (V6 or higher) with database focus (Required).
• Senior/lead data analyst experience with large data sets and multiple interfaces (Required).
• Experience with various file transfer methods and formats (Required).
• Tableau/dashboard design and development (Highly desired).
• Healthcare data experience (Required).
• BI solutions delivery experience (Required).
• SDLC experience; strong written and verbal communication (Required).
• MS Office, MS Project, Visio (Required).
• Candidate meets minimum requirements for a Master Level Position (16 yrs exp and BS degree or equivalent).

This is a remote position.