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Humana is a Fortune 50 market leader in integrated healthcare whose dream is to help people achieve lifelong well-being. As a company focused on the health and well-being of the people we serve, Humana starts from within and is committed to providing progressive benefits that advance the employment experience and vitality of the associate community. Through offerings anchored in a whole-person view of human well-being, Humana embraces a focus on stimulating positive individual and population changes while nurturing a sense of security, enabling people to live life fully and be their most productive.

This influential leadership position drives enterprise-wide data governance at Humana, guiding a team of over 100 professionals to implement transformative strategies that uphold data quality, integrity, and privacy. By fostering stewardship programs, ensuring regulatory compliance, and enabling cross-functional collaboration, this role empowers business and technology teams to realize the full potential of Humana’s data ecosystem. As a catalyst for organizational transformation, this leader shapes a secure, data-driven culture that delivers lasting impact for both individuals and the organization.

This role will be responsible for the data security strategy, including and not limited to data loss prevention, and data protection technologies. Work closely with the technology and business stakeholders to mature and further Humana’s data ecosystem.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop and Lead Data Governance Strategy: Formulate and implement data governance frameworks, policies, and standards to ensure high data quality, integrity, privacy, and security across the organization.

• Establish Data Stewardship Programs: Oversee the identification and training of data stewards, ensuring clear ownership and accountability for critical data assets.

• Ensure Regulatory Compliance: Monitor compliance with relevant data-related regulations (such as GDPR, HIPAA, or internal policies) and collaborate with legal and compliance teams to address data governance requirements.

• Data Quality Management: Define and enforce data quality metrics, monitor data accuracy, and manage issue resolution processes.

• Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement: Work closely with business units, IT, analytics, and executive leadership to align data governance initiatives with organizational objectives.

• Risk Management: Identify and mitigate data-related risks through robust controls, periodic audits, and risk assessments.

• Promote Data Literacy and Culture: Champion data governance awareness and data-driven decision-making across the enterprise through communication, training, and best practice sharing.

• Data Cataloguing: responsible for managing metadata for the organization.

• Oversee Data Governance Tools and Technology: Evaluate, select, and manage data governance platforms and tools to support program goals.

• Performance Measurement and Reporting: Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) for data governance initiatives and report progress to senior leadership.

• Proven data management and data governance practitioner with deep understanding of ETL, data transformation and management practices.

• Cloud environment: Technical understanding of cloud architecture and solutions including but not limited to GCP and Azure.

• Policy Management and Technical Controls: Work closely with legal, risk and IT teams to define and implement policies, standards and controls for data management.

Behavioral Competencies: 

• Exceptional leadership skills, marked by poise, positive influence, and the ability to drive change in a matrixed environment.  

• A management style that is collaborative, energetic, results-oriented, and innovative.  

• Ability to credibly contribute to business discussions and influence strategic and commercial outcomes across the business.  

• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders across both business and technology.  

• Proven track record of successful collaboration in a highly matrixed organization  

• A “talent magnet” who is inspiring to all levels within the organization. The ability to attract and retain top talent, build a world class technology team, and develop next-level leaders.  

• Demonstrated advanced ability to use integrated and conceptual thinking to solve problems.  

• Demonstrated ability to employ judgment and experience to make rapid, complex decisions.