Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy is hiring: Data Governance Analyst in Houston

Overview

Job Number: 177134, Job Title: Data Governance Analyst, Salary: $107,600.00 - $134,500.00

Community Health Choice, Inc. (Community) is a non-profit managed care organization (MCO), licensed by the Texas Department of Insurance. Through its network of more than 10,000 providers and 94 hospitals, Community serves over 400,000 Members with programs including Medicaid STAR, CHIP, Health Insurance Marketplace Plans, and Community Health Choice (HMO D-SNP). Community is accredited by URAC for its health plan operations and offers care management programs for asthma, diabetes, and high-risk pregnancy. An affiliate of the Harris Health System, Community is financially self-sufficient and receives no financial support from Harris Health or Harris County taxpayers.

Improving Members\' experiences is at the heart of every Community position, ensuring access to high-quality health care.

Responsibilities

• The Data Governance Analyst supports the design and implementation of data governance practice to ensure quality, integrity and compliance across Community Health Choice.
• Collaborates with business and IT teams to manage metadata, maintain data dictionaries, and enforce governance policies.
• Utilizes tools like Power BI, SQL, and enterprise data catalogs to track key metrics, drive data stewardship, and promote data literacy.
• Strengthens data accountability and operational consistency to enable informed decision-making, risk reduction, and improved organizational performance.

Core Competencies

• Metadata & Data Quality Enablement: Ensure consistent ingestion, stewardship, and enrichment of metadata into the enterprise data catalog; enforce metadata quality standards and validate completeness, accuracy, and consistency across data glossary terms, ownership, and technical metadata.
• Data Governance Policies and Procedures: Assist in developing policies and procedures; work with Compliance Team to adhere to CHC\'s Policy and Procedures standards.
• Data Dictionary & Stewardship Operations: Maintain business and enterprise data dictionaries per CHC standards; support data stewardship and data mapping for critical data elements across data domains.
• Data Governance Scorecards, Dashboards & Value Realization: Maintain DG maturity scorecards, KPIs/metrics, and operational dashboards; leverage Power BI to track adoption, quality indicators, and impact; collaborate with business partners to document value outcomes (efficiency, compliance, risk reduction).
• Data Governance Enablement & Communications: Deliver training and communications to reinforce data governance standards, roles, and accountability; support employee engagement and onboarding to strengthen data literacy and alignment; contribute to departmental goals and process improvement plans.

Qualifications

• Required
• Education: Bachelor\'s degree in information management, Data Science, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Experience: 5+ years of experience in enterprise data management, data governance, or data operations.
• Experience with enterprise data catalog tools; demonstrated experience in metadata management, data dictionary design, and stewardship frameworks.
• Strong understanding of data quality metrics, data lineage, and data lifecycle.
• Proficient in SQL and data querying for analysis and data validation.
• Proven experience working cross-functionally in Agile/Scrum environments with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Software Proficiencies: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook); familiarity with Power BI and SQL Server.

• Preferred:
• Exposure to data governance ideally within a health plan, managed care organization (MCO) or payer environment.
• Knowledge and technical skills using data governance tools and cloud platforms (Informatica, Collibra, Atlan, etc.).