Manager, Data Governance & Analytics

CVS Health • Work At Home-Arizona, AZ

2d • $60,300 - $132,600

About The Position

Supports Business Analytics strategies that advance organizational reporting, data governance, quality assurance, project delivery, and operational performance goals. Works across business, analytic, and technical teams to develop reliable reporting solutions, support consistent data definitions and business rules, validate analytic outputs, and coordinate initiatives aligned with business priorities.

The Manager Analyst supports business stakeholders, analytics teams, IT partners, data stewards, and cloud platform teams. The role performs data governance activities, produces recurring and ad hoc reporting deliverables, conducts quality assurance and analytic validation, and coordinates cross-functional projects. It helps ensure business decisions are supported by accurate data, consistent definitions, effective documentation, well-tested analytic solutions, and timely delivery.

Data Governance (approximately 30%): Supports data governance and stewardship through developing and maintaining business definitions, reporting logic, data dictionaries, metadata, reporting inventories, lineage and process documentation, and governance standards. Partners with stakeholders to clarify requirements, document data ownership, investigate quality concerns, and encourage consistent use of governed data. Reviews reporting and analytic processes for inconsistencies and supports governance meetings, issue tracking, decision documentation, and follow-up.

Recurring Reporting and Ad Hoc Deliverables (approximately 25%): Develops, maintains, and delivers recurring reports, dashboards, analyses, and ad hoc requests using SQL, Tableau, DataMarts, cloud-based analytics platforms, and other enterprise tools. Gathers and documents requirements, analyzes business and operational measures, and maintains schedules, logic, procedures, and documentation for timely and supportable deliverables.

Quality Assurance (approximately 25%): Validates reports, dashboards, datasets, queries, business logic, transformations, and analytic outputs. Develops and executes test plans, validation queries, reconciliations, reasonability checks, and documentation. Investigates discrepancies, defects, and process gaps; documents findings; conducts root-cause analysis; and collaborates on resolution. Participates in peer reviews and production-readiness assessments.

Project Management (approximately 20%): Coordinates analytics, reporting, governance, documentation, quality assurance, migration, and process-improvement initiatives. Maintains project plans, milestones, timelines, status updates, risks, dependencies, actions, and deliverables. Facilitates meetings, communicates progress, escalates barriers, and follows through on commitments. Collaborates across business, analytics, IT, data engineering, cloud platform teams, and leadership. Supports cloud analytics modernization and reporting transitions, including migration validation and responsible cloud-resource use. Shares knowledge and promotes consistent practices in documentation, requirements gathering, SQL analysis, validation, reporting, and project coordination.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in analytics, business intelligence, reporting, data governance, business analysis, quality assurance, or related data-focused functions.
• Strong SQL experience, including querying, combining, analyzing, validating, and reconciling data from multiple sources.
• Experience supporting business intelligence and reporting solutions, including dashboards, DataMarts, reporting workflows, relational data structures, and analytic outputs.
• Knowledge of data quality, data governance, business rules, reporting logic, requirements gathering, testing, documentation, and validation practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including ability to explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated experience supporting data governance and stewardship activities and developing and maintaining business definitions, reporting logic, data dictionaries, metadata, reporting inventories, lineage documentation, process documentation, and governance standards.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree preferred, or equivalent specialized training, relevant professional qualification, or comparable professional experience in a related discipline.
• Experience in healthcare, payer, pharmacy benefit management, government programs, regulated reporting, utilization, financial analytics, or related business intelligence environments.
• Experience with cloud-based analytics platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), BigQuery (BQ), Dataiku, or comparable technologies.
• Ability to partner with business stakeholders, analytics teams, IT teams, data engineers, cloud platform teams, and leadership to deliver business solutions.
• Strong project coordination and organizational skills, including managing multiple priorities, timelines, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Problem-solving skills, including identifying data and reporting issues, conducting root-cause analysis, and implementing solutions.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to accurate, high-quality, well-documented analytical work.
• Excellent communication skills, including translating business requirements into reporting, analytics, or technical solutions and communicating findings to diverse audiences.
• Adaptability, continuous learning, and commitment to improving business processes and analytical capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain business definitions, reporting logic, data dictionaries, metadata, reporting inventories, lineage documentation, process documentation, and governance standards.
• Partner with stakeholders to clarify data requirements, document data ownership, investigate data quality concerns, and promote consistent use of governed data assets.
• Review reporting and analytic processes for inconsistencies in definitions, business rules, sourcing, transformations, and documentation.
• Support governance meetings, working sessions, issue tracking, decision documentation, and follow-up activities.
• Develop, maintain, and deliver recurring reports, dashboards, analyses, and ad hoc business requests using SQL, Tableau, DataMarts, cloud analytics platforms, and enterprise reporting tools.
• Gather and document business requirements and translate them into actionable analytics and reporting deliverables.
• Analyze business performance, operational trends, financial results, utilization, and other relevant measures.
• Maintain reporting schedules, process documentation, business logic, and production procedures.
• Perform quality assurance and validation of reports, dashboards, datasets, queries, business logic, transformations, and analytic outputs.
• Develop and execute test plans, validation queries, reconciliations, reasonability checks, and documentation.
• Investigate discrepancies, reporting defects, and process gaps; document findings, perform root-cause analysis, and collaborate on resolution.
• Participate in peer reviews and production-readiness assessments.
• Coordinate analytics, reporting, governance, documentation, quality assurance, migration, and process-improvement initiatives.
• Maintain project plans, milestones, timelines, status updates, risks, dependencies, action items, and deliverables.
• Facilitate meetings and working sessions, communicate progress, escalate risks or barriers, and follow through on commitments.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, analytics teams, IT partners, data engineering teams, cloud platform teams, and leadership.
• Support cloud analytics modernization and reporting transitions, including migration validation, responsible cloud-resource use, and query and workload awareness.
• Assist colleagues with documentation standards, requirements gathering, SQL-based analysis, analytic validation, reporting processes, and project coordination.

Benefits

• Medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Paid time off
• Retirement savings options
• Wellness programs
• Other resources supporting physical, emotional, and financial well-being, based on eligibility
• CVS Health bonus, commission, or short-term incentive program

What This Job Offers

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