Job ID: JOB_ID_8083
Job Title: Data Governance Lead
VYZE INC is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Data Governance Lead for a hybrid role with Common Mass. This position is crucial for the Data Modernization Initiative (DMI) Projects, focusing on establishing and overseeing data governance frameworks, standards, and stewardship models to ensure public health data is accurate, secure, and interoperable. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of public health data domains and experience leading data governance programs in government or regulated environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Establish and implement data governance policies, standards, and operating procedures covering data quality, metadata, access, privacy, and lifecycle management.
- Define data requirements for the Enterprise Data Platform (EDP), including metadata fields, codebooks, lineage diagrams, refresh cadence, and access rules.
- Specify operational procedures for EDP, such as naming conventions, versioning, and code standardization.
- Serve as a technical advisor on EDP capabilities, constraints, and best practices in governance forums.
- Align governance activities with public health data modernization initiatives, including cloud migration and system modernization.
- Ensure governance is embedded into new data platforms, pipelines, and analytic tools.
- Enable data standardization by ensuring the existence of reference tables, shared mappings, and reusable transformations in EDP.
- Establish data quality expectations and oversight processes in collaboration with data quality and informatics teams.
- Support health equity initiatives by ensuring standardized, complete, and accurate demographic data.
- Partner with legal, privacy, and security teams to ensure governance policies align with HIPAA, state privacy laws, and data use agreements.
- Support appropriate data access, sharing, and transparency while protecting sensitive public health information.
- Serve as a liaison between public health programs, IT, epidemiology, developers, and external partners on governance matters.
- Translate governance concepts into practical guidance for program and technical staff.
- Support training and communication to build data governance literacy across the agency.
- Represent the state in interstate, federal, or multi-agency data governance discussions as needed.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in public health, Health Informatics, Information Systems, Data Management, Public Administration, or related field, or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of experience in data governance, data management, public health informatics, or enterprise data roles.
- Demonstrated experience establishing or leading data governance programs in government or regulated environments.
- Strong understanding of public health data domains and data lifecycle management.
- Ability to work effectively across programs, agencies, and technical disciplines.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including policy and documentation development.
- Strong change management and organizational adoption skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Masters degree in public health (MPH), Health Informatics, or related field.
- Experience supporting state or federal public health data modernization initiatives.
- Familiarity with CDC Data Modernization Initiative (DMI) principles and funding requirements.
- Experience with metadata management, data catalogs, or governance tooling used in public-sector environments.
- Knowledge of Medicaid, surveillance, registry, laboratory, or vital records data systems.
- Experience supporting grant-funded programs, performance reporting, or audits.
Location:
- Hybrid – Local to Boston area, Quincy, MA
Employment Type:
- Contract
Client:
- Common Mass
Special Requirements
Onsite interview required after initial video interview. Citizen or Green Card/GC EAD preferred. Candidate must submit with DL.
Compensation & Location
Salary: $70 – $95 per year (Estimated)
Location: Quincy, MA
Recruiter / Company – Contact Information
Recruiter / Employer: Common Mass
Email: s@vyzeinc.com
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