Data Governance Sr. Professional

Humana

3d • Remote

About The Position

This role is part of the DoW SkillBridge Internship and Military Spouse Career Accelerator Fellowship Programs, designed to provide eligible participants with hands-on experience, training, and exposure to Humana's culture, teams, and business priorities. The intern will support members, projects, and business goals, potentially working with healthcare professionals, HR, and IT. The objective is to support and facilitate care for members. Eligibility requires participants to be transitioning service members approved for the DoW SkillBridge or military spouses approved for the Military Spouse Fellowship Program.

Requirements

• Must be a transitioning service member eligible to participate in the DoW SkillBridge or a military spouse eligible to participate in the military spouse career accelerator fellowship.
• U.S. citizenship required due to government contract.
• Successfully receive interim approval for government security clearance (NBIS - National Background Investigation Service).
• Candidates currently living in Puerto Rico cannot be hired due to government contract limitations.
• Bachelor's degree
• 7 years of experience in data governance, data quality, or data management roles
• Knowledge of data governance frameworks, metadata management, data lineage, business glossary, and data catalog concepts
• Experience profiling and analyzing data to identify trends, anomalies, risks, gaps, and opportunities for data quality improvement
• Experience supporting enterprise analytics, reporting, regulatory, operational, cloud modernization, or AI readiness initiatives through trusted and governed data practices

Nice To Haves

• 10 years in healthcare, business, or financial services
• Experience with healthcare data (claims, clinical, service operations)
• Technical fluency with SQL, data profiling techniques, data mapping and interpretation of data lineage and transformation logic
• Experience developing data quality scorecards, metrics, and dashboards
• Experience with data quality platforms such as Ataccama, Collibra, Big Eye, Alation, Informatica, or Microsoft Purview
• Experience with data visualization

Responsibilities

• Research enterprise data governance frameworks, standards, policies, and existing internal practices to inform the development of a foundational Data Governance Implementation Guide.
• Support the creation and documentation of a practical implementation approach that guides business areas through required data governance activities for new business initiatives.
• Help define how business areas should identify, document, classify, manage, and govern data throughout the planning, design, implementation, and operational phases of new business work.
• Partner with Enterprise Data Governance leadership to translate governance requirements into clear guidance, checklists, templates, decision points, and adoption steps.
• Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to understand operational needs, current-state practices, and areas where additional governance rigor is needed.
• Support alignment of the implementation guide with enterprise architecture, data management, data quality, data stewardship, data dictionary, data sensitivity, metadata, and data flow documentation expectations.
• Document roles and responsibilities for business areas, data owners, data stewards, technology partners, and governance stakeholders involved in implementing data governance requirements.
• Assist in defining repeatable processes for applying data governance to new business, including intake, assessment, documentation, approvals, issue escalation, and ongoing monitoring.
• Support the development of communication, education, and roll-out materials to help business areas adopt the Data Governance Implementation Guide.
• Participate in stakeholder review sessions, gather feedback, document decisions, and incorporate updates into the implementation guide and supporting materials.
• Help identify opportunities to improve consistency, transparency, and accountability in how data governance requirements are embedded into business operations and technology delivery.
• Support the establishment of adoption metrics, progress tracking, and reporting mechanisms to monitor implementation of data governance practices across business areas.
• Contribute to process improvement by helping teams understand how strong governance practices support reliable data, informed decision-making, operational performance, compliance expectations, and reduced business risk.

Benefits

• Networking opportunities will be provided while participating in the Internship or Fellowship.
• Humana will provide Home or Hybrid Home/Office associates with telephone equipment appropriate to meet the business requirements for their position/job.
• Associates who live and work from Home in the state of California, Illinois, Montana, or South Dakota will be provided a bi-weekly payment for their internet expense.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern