Senior Data Governance Consultant (System Application Analyst, Sr.)

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/id