Data Governance Consultant

Maxonic maintains a close and long-term relationship with our direct client. In support of their needs, we are looking for a Data Governance Consultant Job Description: Job Title: Data Governance Consultant Job Type: Contract Job Location: Remote Work Schedule: Remote Rate: $89.65,Based on experience Job Description:- • We are seeking a contractor to serve as a liaison between technical teams and business stakeholders, ensuring that complex metadata, governance, and reporting concepts are translated into clear, actionable documentation for our enterprise data catalog (Gene). This role focuses on consolidating technical details into business-friendly language, supporting metadata completeness, and advancing governance initiatives across core data domains. Key Responsibilities: • Interpret and simplify technical concepts related to data assets, data lineage, and reporting logic for inclusion in the data catalog. • Collaborate with technical teams to gather detailed information about data sources, transformations, and quality checks, including but not limited to: • Translating technical data rules for business and operational teams within the data catalog. • Consolidating and summarizing data rules for core domains (e.g., patient, provider) to enable easy access for business stakeholders. • Defining documentation standards and processes required to certify data. • Create clear, user-friendly descriptions that explain complex data processes in business-friendly language. • Ensure consistency, accuracy, and completeness of metadata and definitions across the data catalog. • Support governance and compliance efforts by maintaining transparency in data documentation. • Identify gaps in existing documentation and partner with teams to remediate them. Metadata Enhancement: • Partner with Data Engineering and Data Analytics teams to document core and semantic tables currently in production. • Collaborate with Data Analytics teams to identify and document enterprise metrics and create a framework to link related or similar metrics. • Partner with Data Analytics teams to remediate or retire existing metrics that lack defined ownership. • Work with Research and Privacy teams to document and outline guidelines for handling PHI and PII relevant to the Data and Analytics organization when sharing data externally. • Create and maintain data policies for restricted data across the CHOP ecosystem to ensure compliance with enterprise standards and guidelines. • Partner with stakeholders and technical teams to support and operationalize Data Retention policies in accordance with CHOP standards. • Develop artifacts that make existing CHOP data initiatives more accessible and understandable for technical and business teams. • Create relevant data policies and link to CHOP global policies to ensure policies are actionable and consistently applied. Skills: • Strong understanding of data management principles, including data quality, metadata, and reporting concepts. • Ability to translate technical language into clear, concise, and accessible explanations. • Experience working with data catalogs and metadata management tools like Alation is a plus • Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work across technical and business teams. • Familiarity with data governance frameworks and reporting tools is a plus. • Experience in SQL and other programming languages is a plus. • Experience with Data Quality tools like Experian, Collibra, etc. is a plus • Experience in Healthcare, with experience in Epic is a plus • Experience in writing technical documentation Education: Required Education: • -Bachelor's Degree. Preferred Education: • -Bachelor's Degree in clinical informatics, sciences, math, statistics, healthcare management or other healthcare related degree. Preferred Experience: • 4-6 years experience in data governance, data management organization • 2-3 years experience in using SQL , Python tools • 1-2 years experience in using data catalog About Maxonic: Since 2002 Maxonic has been at the forefront of connecting candidate strengths to client challenges. Our award winning, dedicated team of recruiting professionals are specialized by technology, are great listeners, and will seek to find a position that meets the long-term career needs of our candidates. We take pride in the over 10,000 candidates that we have placed, and the repeat business that we earn from our satisfied clients. Interested in Applying? Please apply with your most current resume. Feel free to contact Jhankar Chanda (jhankar@maxonic.com for more details.