Director Data Governance

JOB SUMMARY
Reporting to the Head of Analytics, this position will lead the Data Governance team responsible for establishing standards, improving data quality and developing a culture of accountability and continuous improvement. The goal of Baylor Scott & White Healths newly formed Analytics Team is to harness the power of data and analytics to inform/empower both incremental and transformational improvement in performance across the enterprise. We are establishing a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship, seeking to identify and deploy cutting edge technologies to harness an ever-broadening data set to solve the most pressing problems in healthcare.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Create and manage a centralized data catalog and dictionary
- Evaluate data quality and establish a data quality score for key metrics
- Establish a data certification program to distinguish fields that meet the high-quality threshold
- Establish an analytics product certification program to distinguish reports and dashboards that meet established data quality and analytics standards
- Establish a data stewardship and data custodian programs and councils
- Participate and lead Master Data Management system and Reference Data Management system governance to increase standardization and usability of data
- Leverage data governance tools and processes to improve data quality and solve complex data problems
- Establishing a knowledge repository for our analysts, stewards and custodians to share best practice and build capabilities

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, and ABILITIES:
- Problem-solving skills - Strong background in problem-solving
- Leadership - Proven capabilities at influencing others, including senior level executives, with limited direct control. Confident in ones capabilities - credible, high integrity, authentic and trustworthy
- Collaborator - Demonstrated capabilities at working with high level executives and other analytics leaders to work through differences and align on solutions
- Detail oriented - Ability to drill down into the weeds to problem solve while being mindful of details
- Strong understanding of healthcare industry - Experience working with large health systems; preferably with knowledge and understanding of both clinical and back-office operations
- Mission driven - Professional mission centered on having a positive impact on society, exceeding personal imperatives
- Respectful and respectable - polite, tactfully says what s/he means and does what s/he says; genuinely cares for others

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelors or Equivalent Experience
- 5+ years experience