DELTA DENTAL: Senior Data Governance Analyst

This job will partner with key business, analytics, and technology stakeholders to identify business challenges, formulate a data plan, drive the insights, and develop solutions to enable the business teams to perform at the highest levels. This individual is responsible for driving understanding and decision making from data, working with key executives down to analysts. This role is part of the Data and Analytics COE which consists of experts and advisors with a specific focus on generating business insight, governing data assets, and promoting the use of data and analytics to achieve business outcome and measurable ROI across the enterprise. The Data Governance Analyst will develop procedures to support the accuracy, security, and integrity of Delta Dental's Data. The role will help maintain best practices regarding data access. Provide expertise, guidance, and support in establishing, operationalizing and sustaining a data governance program that identifies, defines, manages and publishes data standards and policies. The individual will facilitate business processes and guide cross functional Data Stewards in developing enterprise solutions in coordination with IT. In addition, this individual is responsible for identifying, defining and maintaining Data Governance workflows, integrations, master data definitions and corresponding metadata within all represented data domains, ensuring the quality and availability of that data, and coordinating the delivery efforts of that data under proper controls.

Responsibilities

• Creates objectives/strategies to reflect data governance initiative and charter, working in partnership with cross-functional teams
• Defines, authors and partners with Business, Compliance and Technology stakeholders to operationalize Data Governance Policies, Processes and Procedures
• Partners with Business and Technical Data Stewards to identify, define and maintain data definitions and corresponding metadata across business functions and data domains
• Establishes a Data Quality framework and partners with stakeholders to define and implement data quality rules for multiple Lines of Business
• Performs data analysis and facilitates discussions for data issue/gap identification, root-cause analyses, remediation identification, solution implementation and closure. Documents and reports findings to inform business decisions and prioritize governance needs
• Provides thought leadership and participates with projects that involve any of the upstream or downstream data flows and processes
• Serves as liaison with Business and Data/Technology teams to apply data standards and processes (e.g. data access, classification, quality, certification, metadata, lifecycle and retention, etc.)
• Coordinates business interests and collaborates with cross-functional Data Stewards, Compliance, Product and Technology in the development of the Data Governance and Data Management solution
• Leads and/or supports facilitation of workshops, sessions and training to increase Data Governance Awareness and Data Literacy
• Creates and monitors program metrics and dashboard reporting for review and presentation