Job Description

This position plays a pivotal role in ensuring the integrity, quality, and security of organizational data assets. Responsibilities include establishing, implementing, and sustaining the organization's data governance framework to ensure data is accurate, secure, compliant, and effectively used to support business and clinical decision‑making.

This position plays a pivotal role in ensuring the integrity, quality, and security of organizational data assets. Responsibilities include establishing, implementing, and sustaining the organization's data governance framework to ensure data is accurate, secure, compliant, and effectively used to support business and clinical decision‑making.

Job Duties

• Define data standards and design and draft robust Data Governance documentation and Standard Operating Procedures. Ensure governance and decision mechanisms are in place to address cross-team dependencies and compliance across the organization.
• Work with data stewards to implement various data governance processes such as data cataloging, metadata management, data quality management, data privacy, data principles, policies, and standards.
• Owns and is comfortable with data governance practices and data governance and management systems. Collaborate with IT teams to implement data governance tools and technologies
• Analyze datasets to identify quality issues and ensure the accuracy and completeness of data definitions.
• Establishes the required governance structures within organization, including updates to senior leadership, to enforce the governance policies and standards, and lead appropriate governance working groups/forums to drive consensus, issue resolution, ownership, and agreement on data quality with respect to data assets.
• Leads Data Governance Council and project teams on implementation, coordination, and delegation of cross-project initiatives. Develop medium- to long-term plans and execute functional Data Governance strategies.
• Ensure the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of data across the organization. Monitor and maintain compliance with data governance policies and procedures.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical, data science discipline or related area.
• 10 years related work experience.
• Proven ability to lead multiple data governance implementations in large organizations.
• Ability to translate complex data risks into clear business implications.
• Ability to build and maintain strong partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Data Science, Analytics or Quantitative or Technical discipline
• 15+ years related work experience.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure, Purview, Fabric, Synapse.

Additional Qualifications
Physical Demands
Lift and carry 25 lbs. frequent sitting/standing, frequent keyboard use, *patient care providers may be required to perform activities specific to their role including kneeling, bending, squatting and performing CPR.

Disclaimer: This position description provides the major duties/responsibilities, requirements and working conditions for the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current position, however management reserves the right to revise or change as necessary to meet organizational needs. Other responsibilities may be assigned when circumstances require.

Work Shift

Workday Day (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type

Regular

Employee Entity

Thomas Jefferson University

Primary Location Address

1100 Virginia Drive, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educa­tional and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.

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