Data Governance Lead, DDMA
Listed on 2026-10-10
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IT/Tech
Information Security & Data Protection, Information & Knowledge Management, Data Engineering, Data Warehousing
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The Data Governance Lead will be responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive data governance framework across the Delta Dental of Massachusetts (DDMA) enterprise. This role will partner with cross functional teams, including IT, legal, compliance, analytics, data strategy, and data engineering to ensure data quality, integrity, security and compliance with healthcare regulations. You will serve as the strategic driver behind data governance capabilities, embedding governance practices into our operational, analytics, research and technology ecosystems.
Data is a catalyst in creating a more accessible, equitable, and integrated health system for everyone. This is an opportunity to shape how data can drive actionable insights that lead to improved and equitable whole health outcomes and total cost of care through integrated and accessible oral, medical, and social data. This position will play a leading role in advancing the maturity of the organization’s data ecosystem, establishing trusted data assets, and enabling a culture of data literacy and stewardship.
Data Governance Strategy & Frameworks:
- Develop, implement and lead a comprehensive enterprise-wide data governance strategy aligned to healthcare standards, privacy regulations, research requirements and the organization's overall mission.
- Create and maintain a data governance framework that supports data stewardship, quality, classification, master data management and lifecycle management.
- Build the foundation for an enterprise data governance operating model, policies, and scalable processes.
- Lead the Data Governance Council, driving strategic alignment across business owners, analytics, research, compliance and technology.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define data ownership and stewardship roles, responsibilities, and accountability for data assets.
- Serve as a strategic advisor on governance best practices and industry trends.
- Implement scalable data quality management processes across key data domains for oral, medical and social data.
- Empower and coach domain data stewards to uphold standards and champion governance practices.
- Monitor and report on data quality KPIs, compliance levels, and governance maturity.
- Lead initiatives to improve data quality, resolve data issues and promote consistent data definitions.
- Manage enterprise data governance tools (e.g., Atlan, Unity Catalog, Microsoft Purview).
- Maintain and evolve metadata repositories, business glossaries, and data dictionaries to support data literacy and transparency.
- Implement tools and processes to document data lineage from raw intake to final research output and reporting.
- Ensure organization is maintaining versioning, metadata and transformation history to support transparency and audit-readiness.
- Partner with legal team to maintain and evolve documented processes for secure sharing of data with external partners and establish standard Data Use Agreements for data sharing and data partnerships.
- Adherence to data retention policies: ensure team is educated on policies and ensure technical and operational adherence to our data retention policies.
- Manage various efforts associated to internal and external audits pertaining to data.
Risk Management:
- Partner with compliance teams to align data governance with enterprise risk and security frameworks.
- Partner with compliance…
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