Healthcare Data Governance & Quality Analyst

Alignment Healthcare USA, LLC; Orange (CA); On-site; USD 99,000 - 148,000; Full time

Job summary

Alignment Health USA, LLC is seeking a Data Governance Analyst to execute governance practices across data quality, metadata, standards, and lifecycle management. You will collaborate with governance leaders, business stewards, and tech teams to keep data assets well-documented and compliant.

The role involves root cause analysis of data quality issues, tracking quality metrics, maintaining lineage, and supporting regulatory data obligations under HIPAA and CMS for Medicare Advantage operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience in a related field.
• Working knowledge of SQL for querying, validation, and analysis.
• Experience with data governance, data quality, and metadata practices.
• Familiarity with healthcare data structures and CMS/ HIPAA considerations.
• Ability to communicate findings to both technical and business audiences.

Responsibilities

• Investigate data inconsistencies, perform root cause analysis and document findings.
• Define and monitor data quality rules, track metrics and report trends.
• Maintain data glossary, metadata catalog, and data lineage documentation.
• Track governance issues through lifecycle and report status to stakeholders.
• Validate data across integration and transformation processes with governance checks.
• Support HIPAA, CMS and Medicare Advantage data compliance by preparing audit evidence.

Skills

SQL

Data Querying

Data Quality Analysis

Metadata Management

Data Governance

Excel / BI

Data Catalog Tools

Healthcare Data Literacy

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Healthcare Informatics, Business

Tools

Microsoft Purview

Alation

Purview / Alation / Data quality tools

Job description

Alignment Health USA, LLC is seeking a Data Governance Analyst to execute governance practices across data quality, metadata, standards, and lifecycle management. You will collaborate with governance leaders, business stewards, and tech teams to keep data assets well-documented and compliant.

The role involves root cause analysis of data quality issues, tracking quality metrics, maintaining lineage, and supporting regulatory data obligations under HIPAA and CMS for Medicare Advantage operations.