Department Overview:
The Senior Data Governance Consultant is a key member of the OHSU Data Governance Office (DGO). Data Governance is where people, process and technology come together to enable OHSU to leverage data as a strategic asset. As a member of DGO, you’ll drive the execution of the data governance strategy to make data available, usable, and trusted.
Function/Duties of Position:
Data Stewardship
- Onboard new data stewards to their role and responsibilities.
- Partner with stewards to understand business area needs, gather requirements, and align around common standards.
- Help stewards create clear, actionable practices for data use and communication.
- Participate in and help facilitate steward meetings and workgroup sessions.
Catalog Management
- Promote the use of the Analytics Marketplace for cataloging organizational metadata.
- Educate data stewards, subject matter experts, and business area users on metadata purpose, structure, and management best practices.
- Publish and participate in the maintenance of metadata assets in Collibra, including the use of workflow automation.
- Develop, maintain and promote cataloging standards.
Data Fluency
- Assist in creating training materials and teaching courses as part of an enterprise data fluency program.
- Collaborate with content creators outside of the DGO to integrate additional topics and courses into the program.
- Evaluate program effectiveness through course feedback and make recommendations for improvements.
Data Quality
- Collaborate with business partners to identify data quality issues and analyze root causes.
- Support remediation efforts and process improvement opportunities.
- Monitor and report on data quality metrics and activities.
- Identify data quality trends for key data assets, and report findings to stakeholders.
Governance Tool Management
- Support the configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of the Analytic Marketplace and related workflows.
- Coordinate with product vendor account and support teams regarding updates, enhancements, and issue resolution.
- Support enhancement request, defect, and task tracking.
Leadership, Coordination and Consultation
- Serve as a mentor and subject matter resource, supporting entry and mid-level analysts.
- Assumes project management and lead engagement role responsibilities with small to medium projects.
- Analyze business processes and workflows to understand how data is captured, managed and used.
- Document business requirements, and recommend process improvements that enhance data accuracy, usability, and analytic capabilities.
Other duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications:
Master’s degree in computer science, a related field, or a clinical field and four years of work related experience in the information technology field or a combination of clinical or operational healthcare environments; OR
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, a related field, or a clinical field and six years of work related experience in the information technology field or a combination of clinical or operational healthcare environments; OR
Associate’s degree in computer science, a related field, or a clinical field and seven years of work related experience in the information technology field or a combination of clinical or operational healthcare environments; OR
Eight years work related experience in the information technology field or a combination of clinical or operational healthcare environments; OR
Equivalent combination of education and experience where one year of experience will be substituted for an Associate’s degree and two years of experience will be substituted for a Bachelor’s degree.
Experience
- Two or more years of experience working in a Business Analyst role.
- Two or more years of experience documenting business processes and functional requirements.
- Three or more years of experience in a direct customer-facing role (internal or external).
- Two or more years leading small to medium sized projects.
- One or more years of experience delivering training or engaging users through instructional materials.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Ability to effectively communicate information to internal customers and to all levels within the organization.
- Ability to understand, translate, and communicate abstract concepts/ideas in a clear, concise, and easy to understand communication style.
- Excellent presentation, facilitation, and training skills.
- Project coordination and/or leadership experience from conception, schedule, design, testing, through implementation.
- Ability to develop detailed user requirements and specifications documentation.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team while being collaborative in resolving problems.
- Must have demonstrated, excellent customer service skills both on the phone and in person.
Preferred Qualifications:
- One or more years of experience with data governance software platforms such as Collibra.
- One or more years developing business intelligence reports.
- Experience implementing data governance best practices.
- Experience in data stewardship, metadata management, data quality, or data fluency.
- Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP).
Additional Details:
Schedule: This role works Monday - Friday, core hours are 10:00am - 3:00pm PT. This position is fully remote.
Benefits
- Healthcare for full-time employees covered 100% and 88% for dependents.
- $50K of term life insurance provided at no cost to the employee.
- Two separate above market pension plans to choose from.
- Vacation - up to 200 hours per year dependent on length of service.
- Sick Leave - up to 96 hours per year.
- 9 paid holidays per year.
- Substantial Tri-Met and C-Tran discounts.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Childcare service discounts.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Employee discounts to local and national businesses.
Why apply to OHSU?:
We are Oregon's only public academic health center.
In addition to caring for patients, we lead groundbreaking research. We also train the next generation of health care professionals. As Portland's largest employer, we give you opportunities to learn and advance in a system of hospitals and clinics across Oregon and Southwest Washington.
All are welcome.
OHSU welcomes people of all ages, ethnicities, genders, national origins, religions and sexual orientations. We are striving to build an anti-racist, multicultural institution and encourage people with diverse backgrounds to apply.
To request reasonable accommodation, contact askhr@ohsu.edu
