Lead Data Governance Specialist

Cohere Health

82d • $115,000 - $135,000

About The Position

We are seeking a Lead Data Governance Specialist to join our exceptional team. As the Lead Data Governance Specialist, your responsibility will be to ensure that the data in our application and analytics platform is trustworthy, reliable, organized, and well-managed to support real-time transactions and downstream analytics needs. You will be the data steward of key data assets for our organization - improving the governance and usability of the data. You will work with engineering, products, analytics, clinical and operations to improve data quality, ensure proper data use, accessibility, and improve data literacy. The work will be fast-paced yet enterprise-centric, with evolving needs - requiring discipline, flexibility, curiosity, and grace under pressure. At a growing organization, this is a position that offers the ability to make a substantive mark on the company and its partners with exponential growth opportunities. You will be part of the Data & AI organization and build a Cohere data platform to support our downstream teams to optimize patient care paths.

Requirements

• Bachelor's in health informatics, data analytics, or related areas (Master's preferred)
• 5+ years of data experience at a health technology company where health outcomes were critical to the mission, preferably a healthcare analytics company or population health organization
• Passionate about improving the U.S. healthcare system and helping ensure every patient receives the best care possible
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with health technology data, including administrative, clinical, and patient outcome data, conducting in-depth analysis to support data-driven decision making
• Expertise in data governance practices, including data cataloging, lineage, and quality management
• Proven track record in leading through influence, ability to drive cross-functional complex data projects in a fast-paced and high-intensity 'scale-up' environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills to collaborate with business, technical, and clinical leaders to define and govern data quality metrics

Responsibilities

• Drive best practices in data and information management throughout Cohere’s application and analytic platforms
• Work cross-functionally to establish and maintain an enterprise data catalog, capturing business, clinical & operational nuance and specificity, including data lineage and metric definitions
• Provide training and support to promote data discoverability and establish guardrails to ensure proper data use
• Work with data producers, data engineering, and consumers to establish and maintain data contracts and data quality standards
• Monitor and maintain a range of data quality dimensions, including but not limited to, data accuracy, completeness, consistency, and timeliness
• Accelerate our 'shift left' data governance framework, including adherence to standards related to data validation, storage, access, and management
• Collaborate with compliance and IT to establish proper data security and privacy controls

Benefits

• Fully remote opportunity with about 5% travel
• Medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, and Employee Assistance Program
• 401K retirement plan with company match; flexible spending and health savings account
• Up to 184 hours (23 days) of PTO per year + company holidays
• Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave
• Pet insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees