Please note: Only candidates who meet all listed required qualifications will be considered for this position.
- Minimum Education Level: Bachelor’s Degree
- Years of Experience: Minimum Years of Experience: 3 years of relevant professional experience
- Area of Study: Information Systems, Data Science, Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, Computer Science, or related field.
- Alternate Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree; or Associate degree and 2 years relevant professional experience in addition to the minimum experience requirement; or HS Diploma/GED and 4 years relevant professional experience in addition to the minimum experience requirement.
- Experience with EPIC
The Data Governance Analyst (Contractor) supports enterprise data governance initiatives with a focus on the Epic Analytics Catalog, Epic Reset alignment, and data governance standardization across analytics platforms.
This role is responsible for advancing metadata management, data quality, catalog governance, and data literacy, while ensuring analytics assets align with enterprise standards, lifecycle requirements, and security models. The contractor will partner with Data Governance, Analytics, and IT teams to improve catalog usability, governance adoption, and data-driven decision-making across the organization.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Support Epic Analytics Catalog assessment and Epic Reset alignment efforts, including reviewing catalog structure, evaluating asset inventory, and identifying assets to retain, update, consolidate, or retire. Execute data governance updates within the catalog to ensure proper ownership, certification, and lifecycle alignment with enterprise standards.
- Develop and implement metadata and catalog governance standards, including defining tagging frameworks, creating metadata templates, normalizing existing metadata, and establishing validation processes to ensure consistency and quality across reports, dashboards, and other analytics assets.
- Establish and monitor data quality and governance metrics, including defining rules and thresholds, tracking catalog adoption and metadata completeness, and building dashboards and reporting using Business Intelligence tools to measure effectiveness of governance initiatives.
- Support access and security alignment by mapping role-based access and Active Directory groups to analytics assets, validating access consistency across environments (POC, DEV, PROD), and ensuring alignment with enterprise security standards and Epic Reset changes.
- Define and enforce promotion and lifecycle governance standards, including establishing processes for assets moving through POC, Development, and Production, implementing governance checkpoints, and documenting approval and ownership requirements aligned to Epic build and migration processes.
- Contribute to the data governance operating model by aligning catalog ownership to value streams and Triad structures, supporting stewardship responsibilities, and participating in governance review cadences to monitor catalog health and compliance.
- Develop and deliver training, enablement, and communication materials to support catalog usage, metadata understanding, and governance adoption, including end-user guidance and stakeholder presentations to promote a data-driven culture.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Data Governance, Analytics, and IT teams to ensure consistent adoption of governance practices and support broader enterprise data initiatives. Perform other duties as assigned.
Preferred Experience:
- Experience in healthcare data and analytics environments, including Epic Cogito (Caboodle, Clarity, SlicerDicer, Radar)
- Experience supporting analytics catalog management, metadata governance, or data catalog tools
- Experience with enterprise analytics platforms (e.g., Power BI, Tableau)
- Experience working on enterprise initiatives or large-scale transformations (e.g., Epic optimization or Epic Reset)
- Experience collaborating across cross-functional teams (Data, IT, Clinical, Operational stakeholders)
- Experience developing training materials, documentation, or data literacy content
Certification
Preferred Certifications:
- Epic Cogito Certification
- Data Governance or Data Management certifications (e.g., CDMP – DAMA)
- Process improvement certification (e.g., Six Sigma Yellow Belt)
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Strong project management skills managing complex technology and data initiatives
- Understanding of enterprise data architecture, analytics platforms, and AI solutions
- Ability to coordinate cross?functional teams across technical and clinical domains
- Knowledge of data governance and data quality practices
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Ability to translate business needs into actionable project plans
- Strong analytical and problem?solving capabilities
- Familiarity with healthcare performance analytics preferred
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Pay: $50.00 - $65.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Referral program
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- Are you comfortable working on W2? If not, please hold off on completing the application for now. We’ll be posting another opportunity in the future for 1099/C2C candidates.
- Are you willing to work on a contract basis? If not, please hold off on completing the application for now. We’ll be posting another opportunity in the future for full time roles.
- Are you legally authorized to work in the United States, US Citizen/Green Card Holder? If not, please hold off on completing the application for now. We’ll be posting another opportunity in the future for Visa candidates.
- Do you have experience a minimum of 3 years experience with metadata? If you do not have, please hold off on completing the application for now. We’ll be posting another opportunity in the future for candidates without the required experience.
- Do you have experience a minimum of 3 years experience with data architecture, analytics platforms, and AI solutions? If you do not have, please hold off on completing the application for now. We’ll be posting another opportunity in the future for candidates without the required experience.
- Do you have project management experience? If you do not have, please hold off on completing the application for now. We’ll be posting another opportunity in the future for candidates without the required experience.
- Do you have experience a minimum of 3 years experience with EPIC? If you do not have, please hold off on completing the application for now. We’ll be posting another opportunity in the future for candidates without the required experience.
- Do you have experience a minimum of 3 years experience with data governance? If you do not have, please hold off on completing the application for now. We’ll be posting another opportunity in the future for candidates without the required experience.
Work Location: In person
