Harris Health is hiring: Data Governance Analyst in Houston

Job Summary

The Data Governance Analyst supports the design and implementation of data governance practice to ensure quality, integrity, and compliance across Community Health Choice. This role collaborates with business and IT teams to manage metadata, maintain data dictionaries, and enforce governance policies.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Assist in developing and maintaining data governance policies, procedures, and best‑practice documentation.
• Maintain business and enterprise data dictionaries per CHC standards and support data stewardship and mapping for critical data elements across domains.
• Maintain data governance 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, including efficiency, compliance, and risk reduction.
• Deliver training and communications to reinforce data governance standards, roles, and accountability expectations; support employee engagement sessions and onboarding.
• Actively contribute to departmental goals, process improvement plans, and other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information management, data science, business administration, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in enterprise data management, data governance, or data operations.
• Experience with enterprise data catalog tools and 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, SQL Server.

Preferred

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