Full Time, 40 Hours/week
Monday - Friday, Days

Hybrid 2-3 days Onsite Akron, OH

Summary:

Senior-level role responsible for guiding and advancing the organization's enterprise data governance program. This role provides strategic and operational leadership to ensure data is trusted, secure, well-defined, and aligned with regulatory and organizational requirements.

Responsibilities:

1. Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of the enterprise data governance framework, platforms, policies, standards, and operating procedures to support regulatory reporting, audits, accreditation requirements, and enterprise data strategy.
2. Ensure data governance initiatives align with organizational priorities, healthcare regulatory requirements, privacy standards, and applicable requirements such as HIPAA and Joint Commission standards.
3. Establish, maintain, and mature governance models, including data ownership, stewardship structures, accountability frameworks, and decision-making processes.
4. Provide leadership, direction, prioritization, and mentorship to analysts, developers, engineers, and other contributors supporting data governance initiatives.
5. Oversee enterprise data quality programs, including defining metrics, thresholds, monitoring processes, and improvement strategies across clinical, financial, and operational domains.
6. Partner with compliance, legal, security, and operational teams to ensure appropriate handling of protected health information (PHI), mitigate data risks, and improve data integrity, consistency, and usability.
7. Lead and facilitate enterprise and domain-specific data governance workgroups, including clinical, revenue cycle, and quality groups, to drive decisions on data definitions, standards, and quality improvements.
8. Serve as a primary point of contact for senior leaders, directors, and cross-functional teams on data governance matters, priorities, and issue resolution.
9. Drive organizational adoption of governance practices through effective communication, training, stakeholder engagement, and change management strategies.
10. Define standards and best practices for metadata management, business glossary development, data lineage, data classification, and governance documentation.
11. Oversee onboarding and governance of critical data assets within catalog tools, ensuring appropriate stewardship, documentation, usability, and ongoing maintenance.
12. Define, monitor, and report KPIs for data governance effectiveness while leading continuous improvement initiatives to enhance governance processes, workflows, and stakeholder engagement.

Other information:

Technical Expertise

Full Time

FTE: 1.000000

Status: Remote