Senior Data Governance Lead — Semantic Models & AI Readiness

Intermountain Healthcare Inc.; Charleston (WV); On-site; USD 6,111,000 - 9,623,000; Full time

Job summary

Intermountain Health in Utah seeks a Senior Data Governance Analyst to design, develop, and implement metadata management, reference data, and data quality monitoring processes. You will lead moderately complex initiatives with cross-functional teams and report to the Data Governance Manager.

The role requires hands-on experience with the chosen data governance solution, strong SQL, and a solid understanding of governance principles.

Qualifications

• Experience in data governance: cataloging, lineage, classification, reference data, and business glossary management
• Experience with system and data integration via API
• Experience with major Electronic Health Record solutions and backend data architecture
• Advanced SQL skills and knowledge of database design, ETL, and data mapping
• Experience with data quality monitoring and improvement
• Collaborative team player across organization levels
• Proficiency in PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and strong communication skills

Responsibilities

• Develop conceptual and semantic models for enterprise domains
• Analyze and resolve ambiguous business terminology with stakeholders
• Translate business concepts into computable semantic structures (MDM, catalogs, knowledge graphs)
• Partner with owners, stewards, architects, and engineering teams to align models with data designs
• Establish and maintain enterprise glossaries, ontologies, taxonomies, and reference-data structures
• Identify authoritative sources, ownership boundaries, survivorship rules, and semantic relationships
• Conduct domain discovery and business architecture analysis
• Support master data management initiatives and governance requirements
• Define semantic requirements for AI, knowledge-graph, and semantic layers
• Develop modeling standards, governance practices, and documentation

Skills

SQL

Data governance

ETL concepts

Stakeholder communication

Interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in IT or analytics

Tools

APIs

EHR systems

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

Intermountain Health in Utah seeks a Senior Data Governance Analyst to design, develop, and implement metadata management, reference data, and data quality monitoring processes. You will lead moderately complex initiatives with cross-functional teams and report to the Data Governance Manager.

The role requires hands-on experience with the chosen data governance solution, strong SQL, and a solid understanding of governance principles.