Sr Data Governance Analyst

SCAN Health Insurance•Long Beach, CA

11d•$80,300 - $138,330•Hybrid

About The Position

The Sr. Data Governance Analyst will help advance SCAN’s enterprise data governance practices across the Applied Intelligence organization and its business partners. This role is responsible for improving the trust, usability, definition, and discoverability of data used for analytics, reporting, operational decision-making, and emerging AI-enabled capabilities. The analyst will work closely with data stewards, subject matter experts, analytics teams, platform teams, and business leaders to define critical data elements, standardize business terminology, improve data quality, and strengthen the enterprise data catalog. This role is especially important as the organization modernizes its analytics ecosystem through a modern data platform, semantic layers, governed metrics, and more scalable self-service data capabilities.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Data Analytics, Computer Science, Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Statistics, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
3+ years of experience in data governance, data management, data quality, analytics, business intelligence, metadata management, or a related data-focused role.
Experience in the health care industry, especially in areas such as Medicare Advantage, clinical analytics, medical economics, quality, pharmacy, claims, provider, member, or operational data environments strongly preferred.
Experience with enterprise data catalog, metadata management, data lineage, business glossary, stewardship, or report certification practices.
Strong SQL experience, preferably with Snowflake and SQL Server.
Experience with BI and reporting platforms such as Power BI, Tableau, SSRS, or similar tools.
Experience with CLI tools such as Cortex Code, Claude Code, or similar.
Familiarity with modern cloud data platforms, data warehouses, dimensional modeling, semantic layers, metrics layers, and governed self-service analytics.
Experience working in SAFe Agile or another Agile delivery framework.
Business Partnership: Builds trusted relationships with business and technical stakeholders and translates governance practices into practical business value.
Analytical Thinking: Uses structured analysis to evaluate data issues, identify root causes, and assess business impact.
Governance Discipline: Applies consistent standards for definitions, metadata, quality rules, stewardship, lineage, and documentation.
Communication: Explains complex data concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Continuous Improvement: Identifies opportunities to improve governance workflows, data usability, automation, and scalable self-service analytics.
Strong SQL skills for data profiling, validation, reconciliation, and issue investigation.
Ability to translate technical data structures into clear, business-aligned definitions and documentation.
Understanding of data governance concepts, including stewardship, ownership, metadata, lineage, business glossaries, data quality, and policy adherence.
Familiarity with Snowflake, SQL Server, Power BI, Tableau, SSRS, data catalogs, and modern analytics platforms.
Ability to support semantic layer and metrics governance, including standardized definitions, dimensional concepts, hierarchies, and measure consistency.
Strong documentation skills, including the ability to maintain business terms, data dictionaries, catalog entries, report inventories, and data quality findings.
Ability to work effectively across business, analytics, data engineering, platform, and leadership teams.
Practical understanding of healthcare data domains such as claims, membership, providers, clinical operations, pharmacy, quality, utilization management, or finance preferred.
Ability to manage multiple priorities in an Agile environment while maintaining attention to detail.
Awareness of emerging automation, AI-assisted documentation, data quality monitoring, and governed self-service analytics capabilities.

Nice To Haves

Preferred certifications include CDMP, DGSP, DCAM, Collibra certification, DAMA-related training, Snowflake certification, Microsoft Power BI certification, or relevant Agile/SAFe certifications.

Responsibilities

Partner with business stakeholders, data stewards, subject matter experts, analytics teams, and technical teams to execute enterprise data governance priorities across key domains.
Support the definition, documentation, and maintenance of critical data elements, business terms, standardized metrics, hierarchies, and data stewardship accountability structures.
Maintain and enhance the enterprise data catalog by documenting data assets, business definitions, metadata, lineage, report inventories, certified reports, ownership, and usage context.
Improve data discoverability and usability by applying effective catalog practices, including tagging, glossary management, workflow support, search optimization, stewardship assignments, and metadata quality controls.
Perform data validation and profiling using SQL across Snowflake, SQL Server, and related platforms to assess accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, and fit for business use.
Investigate data quality issues, conduct root cause analysis, document business impact, and partner with data engineering, analytics, reporting, and business teams to support resolution.
Define, document, and monitor data quality rules, controls, thresholds, and issue management processes for high-value data assets and reporting use cases.
Support the development and adoption of semantic layer and metrics governance practices, ensuring alignment between business definitions, dimensional models, reporting tools, and underlying data structures.
Participate in SAFe Agile ceremonies and planning processes, including PI Planning, backlog refinement, iteration planning, demos, and retrospectives, to ensure governance work is visible, prioritized, and delivered effectively.
Contribute to continuous improvement of governance processes, stewardship practices, catalog workflows, reporting certification, data quality monitoring, automation opportunities, and AI-assisted governance capabilities.
Actively support the achievement of SCAN’s Vision and Goals.
Other duties as assigned.

Benefits

Base Salary Range: $80,300 to $138,330 annually
An annual employee bonus program
Robust Wellness Program
Generous paid-time-off (PTO)
11 paid holidays per year, 1 floating holiday, birthday off, and 2 volunteer days
Excellent 401(k) Retirement Saving Plan with employer match
Robust employee recognition program
Tuition reimbursement
An opportunity to become part of a team that makes a difference to our members and our community every day!
A competitive compensation and benefits program
An annual employee bonus program
Generous paid-time-off (PTO)
Eleven paid holidays per year
Excellent Retirement Savings program
A work-life balance
An opportunity to become part of a team that makes a difference to our members and our community every day!