Data Governance Lead

Local, we can’t send relocation candidates

• Skills:
• Meet with customers, identify use cases, put together requirements, come up with phases of rollouts, (prototype, pilot, roll out)
• Informatica
• What Others Are Missing:
• Having understanding of what data governance is
• Start in an organization where maturity for governance is really low
• Most come from established/already mature--knew how to build on that
  

Looking for someone who has been through the strategy portion and has seen it through to the implementation phase. Industry is open but she would prefer someone with healthcare exp

Local - On-site on Wednesdays to their Boston location.

Can’t find a fit due to them not having a strong understanding of Governance and they don’t have prior experience on how to setup the foundation within a company where their maturity for governance is low. This person will be helping to create a strategy from scratch and this person will need to influence stakeholders that don’t value data governance and overcome resistance and getting the teams buy-in.

Someone who only worked shorter contracts wouldn’t be a fit here

company do? Recent history? Website? Parent Company? Size of Company?)

Since its founding in 1947, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts has been committed to providing adults and children with cancer with the best treatment available today while developing tomorrow's cures through cutting-edge research.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is the only hospital nationwide with a top 10 U.S. News & World Report Best Cancer Hospital ranking in both adult and pediatric care.

Internal Sizzle (Project/Initiative Why the role is open/Team Size)

Current State:

• On cloud data warehouse/snowflake
• 250 dashboards that don't have clear definitions
  
  

Future State: having a system with glossary, metadata, lineage captured

• From data warehouse to tableau dashboards, how are snowflake tables called, following cascade back, where do fields and tables exist/build out co-lineage
• Any user should be able to tell what data they are looking/data lineage
• Metadata capture, data fields, sources, glossary (biz terms, definitions)
• Putting together a platform called analytics asset management system***
• Selected informatica cdgc (cloud data governance catalogue)
• Enable self service
• Enable AI--need clean fields and definitions to enable AI
  
  

Client Sizzle (Why might someone want to work here?)

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is committed to providing expert, compassionate care to children and adults with cancer, while advancing the understanding, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases.

Job Description

Job Title: Data Governance Lead

The role: It’s an exciting time to be a part of the Clinical Operations and Business Analytics (COBA) team within the division of Informatics & Analytics at Dana-Farber. We are at the core of the Institute, using data to drive innovation that is accelerating our mission to defy cancer and improve the lives of our patients, caregivers, and staff. In this role, you will create, own, and drive the overall strategy and vision for implementing a data cataloging and governance platform while also being deeply involved in the hands-on aspects of the implementation.

What will you do?

• Strategy and Vision Development:
• Create, own, and drive the overall strategy and vision for implementing a data cataloging and governance platform.
• Develop comprehensive project plans, engage in stakeholder conversations, and implement/execute product vision.
• Ensure alignment of data governance strategies with organizational goals and objectives.
• Data Catalog and Governance Implementation:
• Lead critical workstreams, including planning, executing tasks, and managing timelines and risks.
• Build and maintain a metadata catalog for analytic assets from data to BI layers.
• Design and implement a framework for metadata enrichment and glossary content curation in Informatica CDGC.
• Conduct pilots to determine and optimize processes for efficiency and value.
• Develop and refine procedures for identifying and addressing data governance issues in collaboration with COBA Vertical teams.
• Coordinate workgroups to deliver glossary inputs on schedule and within budget.
• Oversee continuous improvement in data governance strategies and practices.
• Mentor team members in data governance best practices.
• Monitor and report on the effectiveness of data governance initiatives.
• Process development and documentation:
• Formalize and codify the chosen approach with process documentation and instructions to ensure durability, consistency, and repeatability at scale.
• Document standard procedures to drive SMEs in documenting and curating knowledge assets for the CDGC Glossary in a consistent and accurate manner.
• Drive and hold accountable all necessary review and validation processes with COBA Vertical teams to ensure completeness and SME approval of glossary content that is collected and curated in CDGC.
• Report progress and impacts of AAMS implementation efforts to leadership.
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, ensuring their needs and expectations are met throughout the implementation process.
• Facilitate effective communication and collaboration with technical and stakeholder groups.
• Drive product management and stakeholder engagement interactions, including resolving vendor issues and ensuring smooth communication channels.
• Hands-On Implementation:
• Be actively involved in the hands-on aspects of implementing and managing the business glossary, catalogs, and other data governance components within the Informatica platform.
• Ensure a usable platform for analytic stakeholders, including conducting training sessions and maintaining clear communication channels.
  
  

What knowledge and competencies are required?

General Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Information Systems, Analytics, Business, Engineering). Master's degree is preferred.
• Deep technical experience in data cataloging and governance platforms along with strong working knowledge of effective data governance processes and workflows.
• Expertise with healthcare and related industry clinical and business terminology and definitions.
• Proven experience in coordinating with multiple technical and stakeholder groups.
  
  

Technical:

• Proficient in Enterprise Data Catalog platforms such as Informatica, Collibra, or Alation.
• Skilled and knowledgeable including best practices in data catalog curation, business glossary development, data lineage, and governance workflows.
• Advanced Excel skills and proficiency with Microsoft 365 suite to prep, manage, maintain, and store templates of glossary input data offline of Informatica CDGC.
  
  

Experience:

• Proven experience as a Data Governance leader.
• Expertise with healthcare and related industry clinical and business terminology and definitions.
• Experience and comfort coordinating and collaborating with multiple technical and stakeholder groups. Client Services, Collaboration, Communication
• Ability to influence, cultivate, and leverage cross-group, cross-departmental (e.g., I.S.), and external (e.g., vendor) relationships with a big picture view of DFCI benefit skillfully and routinely. Mindset
• Possesses a high-level of empathy, kindness, and a mindset of inclusive, diverse thinking.
• Demonstrates self-awareness, professionalism, agility and flexibility, a strong work ethic, appropriate humility, and the ability to lead through challenging situations.
• Determination, persistence, and creativity to overcome obstacles, facilitate collaborative solutions, and deliver with a customer product focus. Join us in shaping the future of data governance and contributing to our mission of improving cancer care and research.
  
  

Datawarehouse snowflake on cloud

Glossary, metadata, lineage

DWH to tableau – how are snowflake tables, fields and data elements

KPI metrics - What data are we looking at

Definitions and explained for all data elements

Cataloging, lineage, metadata

Putting together asset mgmt. system – they selected Informatica CDCG

Someone who can go into the strategy and visioning process of what they need in this tool

Someone with a vision of meeting with customer, identity use cases, phase 1 let’s do this/phase 2 this, 250 dashboards, 3 catalogs, protypes, pilot, etc.

There is someone on the team currently who is taking care of certain pieces with Informatica – catalog scans, technical integrations, but need someone more senior who understands vision/strategy but also needs to be hands on in the system

Manage the business glossary and guide conversations with informatica

They are finding so many issues in the product – be responsible for handling those problems

Individual contributor for now…but maybe in the future expand…i.e. they want to set up framework and hire 3 more people to do the groundwork

Healthcare is helpful but not necessary

Every candidate she has interviewed with has had Informatica

Need someone to have strong understanding of data governance and navigate from ground up. someone who can stand it up and then build it up

Those candidates’ maturity for data governance is very low – they had established experience and knew how to build on that, but they fumbled when explained how they would stand it up.

It’s fine if they don’t already have that experience, but they need to know how to do it/be confident and have a plan – how would you start

Their experience was very isolated or very rigid/inflexible

They tried to do with internal team member, but didn’t work out

Definition of glossary – i.e. “floor” has a different meaning at hospitals

They will not own coming up with the definitions themselves, but use core members to do that

Need to be able to influence and get the users on board

Purpose of this to make it more self-service, eventually AI (need some base data to feed AI)

One more person available on the team right now – also hiring a horizontal director – either report into that director or Rameshwari

1 day Longwood on Wednesday

Small prototype first, build small scale

Ideally by the end of year they have full sample of dashboards and use cases

Thanks & Regards,

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