Lead Data Steward

Overview

Lead Data Steward

This position executes on the tactical plan to deliver master, reference or transaction data that is accurate, timely, consistent, complete and trusted across the enterprise as “the source of truth.” This role will play an integral part in the day-to-day operations, development and decision making in multiple domains. It provides input into the tactical and strategic plan, directs day-to-day activities with minimal senior management involvement, recommends, understands, and implements standards in a healthcare-focused environment.

May lead small teams for a fixed or variable period. Emphasis is on data integrity, process improvements, and conformity of information.

• Responsibility #1 – 40%
  • Master Data Management
    • Data Content & Collection - Populate data content per metadata, reference data, identifiers, responsible/ accountable for identification, classification & enrichment in multiple domains per tactical plan
    • Standardization & Enrichment – Thoroughly understands processes to match data to master, reference or 3rd party data sets and enrichment rules for attributes
    • Metadata Management – Defines and populates metadata, recommends additional metadata, publish usability
    • Data Quality & Profiling – Understands, implements, recommends and measures (profiling) accuracy, completeness consistency, recommend tools/processes
    • Data Standards & Practices – Has high level understanding, helps implement and enforce, engages with standard bodies and members, mapping one standard to other
    • DM Framework & Maturity – Understands & adheres to framework, designs plan for new maturity level
    • Data Security/Privacy – Provides input and knowledgeable of issues and concepts
    • Data Governance – Creates data glossaries, dictionaries, and tracks lineage for any data spec in data governance tooling.
• Responsibility #2 – 25%
  • Relationships & Cross Team Collaboration
    • Interact with business to create and work towards KPIs, SLAs and exceptions
    • Initiate, recommend, and implement cross-functional team process improvements
  • Build relationships with cross functional team leaders and help foster cross functional team collaboration
  • May manage small team for fixed/variable periods
  • May manage projects involving remote team in India
• Responsibility #3 – 20%
  • Industry, Member, Supplier Engagement:
    • Skilled at engaging, participating with, and influencing industry/members/suppliers, and knowledgeable about data standards organizations
• Responsibility #4 – 10%
  • System and Process Enhancements:
    • Provide input and approves recommendations
    • Effectively articulates to technical team and validates enhancements via User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
    • Support implementation of components of data management services for improving downstream application functionally and content
• Responsibility #5 – 5%
  • Outreach – Effectively communicate with suppliers, members, or internal staff to obtain or confirm information.

Work Experience: 4 or more years

Education: High School Diploma or GED (Required)

Skills:

• Data standardization and cleansing
• Critical thinking and analytics skills. Ability to see trends in data and determine the relevant updates.
• Highly proficient in data manipulation skills and strong attention to detail
• Problem Solving – discover root cause and develop plan for resolving
• Procedural documentation
• Data Stewardship
• Database Navigation and Querying – SQL, Tableau, GBQ, Databricks
• Microsoft Office – especially Excel
• Proficient with workflow applications
• Ability to leverage AI

• Experience:
  
  Materials Management
• Data Analytics
• Purchasing
• Data Integration discipline

• Industry classifications and standards such as UNSPSC, UDI, NDC, GLN, HIN, DEA etc.
• Healthcare master or transaction data

• Bachelor’s or master’s Degree;
  Data Management Certification

• Remain in a stationary position for prolonged periods of time
• Be adaptive and change priorities quickly; meet deadlines
• Attention to detail
• Operate computer programs and software
• Ability to communicate effectively with audiences in person and in electronic formats
• Day-to-day contact with others (co-workers and/or the public)
• Making independent decisions
• Abi…