Job ID: JOB_ID_7348
Job Summary:
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Data Governance Project Manager to lead data modernization initiatives. This role will establish and oversee data governance frameworks, standards, and stewardship models to ensure public health data is accurate, secure, interoperable, and optimized for policy, surveillance, and program decision-making. The ideal candidate will collaborate closely with epidemiology, analytics, IT, program leadership, and external partners to enhance trust and usability of public health data across the state.
Key Responsibilities:
- Establish governance policies, standards, and operating procedures covering data quality, metadata, access, privacy, and lifecycle management.
- Specify information requirements for the Enterprise Data Platform (EDP), including metadata fields, codebooks, lineage diagrams, refresh cadence, and access rules.
- Define operational standards for the EDP, such as naming conventions, versioning, and code standardization.
- Serve in an advisory role in governance forums, providing technical guidance on EDP capabilities, constraints, and best practices.
- Align governance activities with public health data modernization initiatives, including cloud migration, system modernization, and interoperability efforts.
- 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 the 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.
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.
Bonus 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.
Special Requirements
Interview mode: MS Teams and then an onsite interview. Ideally, we want to find local candidates.
Compensation & Location
Salary: $110,000 – $150,000 per year (Estimated)
Location: Quincy, MA
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