Data Governance Specialist

True Rx Health Strategists•Washington, IN

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

True Rx Health Strategists is hiring a Data Governance Specialist to advance its enterprise data governance program. The role partners with business and technical teams to improve data quality, establish trusted definitions, strengthen data ownership and governance processes, and ensure critical business data is accurate, consistent, and reliable. The position is described as 10% in-office and 90% work from home. The specialist helps develop and maintain governance standards, policies, procedures, and stewardship practices; supports adoption of standards; and participates in governance and stewardship discussions. The role also monitors data quality, investigates discrepancies and root causes, coordinates remediation, and validates data structures, mappings, calculations, transformations, integrations, and migrated data against approved requirements. The specialist uses SQL and analytics to profile, validate, reconcile, monitor, and analyze data across systems. They work with data owners, subject matter experts, business partners, and technical teams to document definitions, rules, ownership, valid values, systems of record, lineage references, and appropriate data usage. The position also creates governance documentation and communicates findings, decisions, risks, dependencies, and remediation progress to stakeholders.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Business Administration, Data Analytics, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
2–3 years of experience in data governance, data quality, data management, business analysis, reporting, or a related discipline.
Hands-on SQL experience, including the ability to independently write queries for data analysis, validation, reconciliation, and issue investigation.
Experience analyzing datasets and identifying data quality issues, patterns, exceptions, and root causes.
Experience documenting business rules, data definitions, process requirements, and data-related decisions.
Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively with business and technical stakeholders.
Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
Excellent writing, documentation, organizational, and attention-to-detail skills.
Ability to manage multiple priorities, work independently, and collaborate within a team.

Responsibilities

Help develop, implement, and maintain enterprise data governance standards, policies, procedures, and stewardship practices.
Promote practical adoption of enterprise data standards across business areas.
Participate in governance committees, stewardship sessions, definition reviews, issue reviews, and change-impact discussions.
Identify and help manage critical data elements and their associated data quality controls.
Build and maintain data quality monitoring processes, scorecards, issue logs, and recurring reports.
Investigate data discrepancies, identify patterns and root causes, and coordinate issue remediation.
Validate new or modified data structures, mappings, calculations, transformations, integrations, and migrated data against approved business requirements.
Write and maintain SQL queries to profile, validate, reconcile, monitor, and analyze data across multiple systems and sources.
Use data analysis to identify quality issues, exceptions, and trends requiring attention, and translate findings into actionable information for business and technical teams.
Partner with data owners, subject matter experts, business partners, and technical teams to document business definitions and rules.
Maintain information about valid values, ownership, systems of record, lineage references, and appropriate data usage.
Create and maintain governance documentation, procedures, user guides, training materials, decision records, and approval or exception documentation.
Communicate data quality findings, governance decisions, risks, dependencies, and remediation progress to stakeholders.
Build relationships across business and technical teams to encourage consistent, practical governance practices.