Data Governance and Analytics Architecture Director

Cotiviti•Remote,

3d•$150,000 - $200,000•Remote

About The Position

The Data Governance & Analytics Architecture Director is a leader within the Health Enablement Analytics organization responsible for ensuring all data, analytics, and AI initiatives are built on a scalable, standardized, and governed foundation. This role serves as a subject matter expert for data governance, analytics architecture, and AI/ML best practices across Health Enablement. This role provides advisory leadership, technical guidance, and architecture standards to ensure analytics and innovation efforts are aligned to enterprise data strategy and built in a scalable, sustainable manner. This position operates as a consultative technical partner to Innovation, Analytics, and Reporting teams helping shape how solutions are designed and delivered; enabling Health Enablement Analytics to operate as a reliable, high-impact capability, driving measurable business outcomes.

Requirements

Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field required
10+ years of experience in data governance, data architecture, data engineering, and analytics roles
5+ years of leadership experience driving data governance, data architecture, and analytics platform initiatives at enterprise scale
Proven ability to define and implement data governance frameworks, standards, and data quality processes
Strong expertise in: data modeling, data warehousing and lakehouse architectures, cloud-based analytics platforms and modern data ecosystems
Experience enabling analytics and AI/ML solutions to scale from prototype to production deployment
Strong understanding of BI platforms, ETL/ELT frameworks, and data lifecycle management
Experience working across analytics, product, engineering, and innovation teams in complex environments
Ability to translate business and analytics priorities into scalable technical architecture and design
Strong leadership, stakeholder management, and decision-making capabilities
Able to work independently in a fast-paced environment as part of a distributed team with effective communication and collaboration skills.
Proven ability to handle stressful situations, multiple tasks, and deadline
Enterprise project management methods and process management experience preferred.
Shares information with all appropriate stakeholders and escalates to director in a timely, effective
Strong written and oral communication The ability to communicate effectively (clear, concise, and professionally) at all levels within Cotiviti.
Demonstrated teamwork, leadership, and project management discipline.
Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally to drive business outcomes.
Communicating with others to exchange information.
Assessing the accuracy, neatness and thoroughness of the work assigned.
Critical thinker and problem solver with strong analytic modeling and technical skills.
Must be able to provide high-speed internet access / connectivity and office setup and maintenance.
Must be able to provide a dedicated, secure work area.
Remaining in a stationary position, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods.
Repeating motions that may include the wrists, hands and/or fingers.

Nice To Haves

Enterprise project management methods and process management experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the development of data governance standards, and best practices across analytics and reporting
Provide guidance on data quality, consistency, and appropriate use of enterprise data assets
Support the standardization of data models, business metrics, and reusable data assets to improve consistency and efficiency
Implement governance frameworks, ensuring policies are embedded into day-to-day data and analytics workflows
Establish clear data stewardship accountability across business and analytics teams
Oversee data quality processes, metadata management, and governance monitoring to ensure sustained data integrity
Serve as the primary point of contact for Information Governance, data risk, and compliance alignment
Drive standardization of data assets to reduce fragmentation and enable consistent cross-domain insights
Provide subject matter expertise on analytics architecture across BI, reporting, and advanced analytics
Partner with teams to ensure solutions are aligned with enterprise data platforms and long‑term strategy
Recommend architectural approaches that support scalability, interoperability, and reuse
Serve as a technical SME contributing to AI/ML standards and best practices
Provide guidance to ensure analytic and AI solutions are designed for scalability and sustainability
Advise on approaches to monitor performance, manage technical debt, and identify architectural risk
Assess technical feasibility of innovation and analytics initiatives and provide input on viable solution approaches
Consult on solution design to support production readiness and scalability
Identify constraints in data or architecture and propose practical workarounds to enable business outcomes
Define guardrails that enable faster decision-making and reduce execution friction
Serve as a consultative technical partner to Innovation, Data Science, Reporting, and broader enterprise teams
Translate business and analytics requirements into technical solutions and executable designs
Provide input on feasibility, architecture, and standards to support solution development
Collaborate across teams to ensure analytics solutions are aligned with enterprise direction while meeting business needs
Contribute technical expertise to vendor evaluations and platform decisions as needed
Hire, develop, coach, lead and retain top-tier talent, with a focus on building and improving a team and culture that is able to assist in employing best in class practices to support and drive high levels of internal and external customer satisfaction.
Complete all responsibilities as outlined in the annual performance review and/or goal setting.
Complete all special projects and other duties as assigned.
Must be able to perform duties with or without reasonable accommodation.