Data Governance Analyst

Position: Data Governance Analyst 1
Title:
Data Governance Analyst

Location:

Fairfax, VA
Duration: 6 Months

Company Summary:
Our mission is to provide world-class healthcare every time, every touch to each person in every community we have the privilege to serve. As a not-for-profit health system, our commitment is to meet the healthcare needs and improve the health of the communities we serve. We work in innovative ways to meet the healthcare challenges of today, while striving to meet the needs of the future.
As such, team members and contractors are expected to perform duties and responsibilities in keeping with values and in a manner that reflects the highest ethical and professional standards of conduct and performance.

Job Summary
The Data Governance Analyst 2 (Contractor) supports enterprise data governance initiatives with a focus on the Epic Analytics Catalog, Epic Reset alignment, and data governance standardization across analytics platforms.
This role is responsible for advancing metadata management, data quality, catalog governance, and data literacy, while ensuring analytics assets align with enterprise standards, lifecycle requirements, and security models. The contractor will partner with Data Governance, Analytics, and IT teams to improve catalog usability, governance adoption, and data-driven decision-making across the organization.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Support Epic Analytics Catalog assessment and Epic Reset alignment efforts, including reviewing catalog structure, evaluating asset inventory, and identifying assets to retain, update, consolidate, or retire. Execute data governance updates within the catalog to ensure proper ownership, certification, and lifecycle alignment with enterprise standards.
• Develop and implement metadata and catalog governance standards, including defining tagging frameworks, creating metadata templates, normalizing existing metadata, and establishing validation processes to ensure consistency and quality across reports, dashboards, and other analytics assets.
• Establish and monitor data quality and governance metrics, including defining rules and thresholds, tracking catalog adoption and metadata completeness, and building dashboards and reporting using Business Intelligence tools to measure effectiveness of governance initiatives.
• Support access and security alignment by mapping role-based access and Active Directory groups to analytics assets, validating access consistency across environments (POC, DEV, PROD), and ensuring alignment with enterprise security standards and Epic Reset changes.
• Define and enforce promotion and lifecycle governance standards, including establishing processes for assets moving through POC, Development, and Production, implementing governance checkpoints, and documenting approval and ownership requirements aligned to Epic build and migration processes.
• Contribute to the data governance operating model by aligning catalog ownership to value streams and Triad structures, supporting stewardship responsibilities, and participating in governance review cadences to monitor catalog health and compliance.
• Develop and deliver training, enablement, and communication materials to support catalog usage, metadata understanding, and governance adoption, including end-user guidance and stakeholder presentations to promote a data-driven culture.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Data Governance, Analytics, and IT teams to ensure consistent adoption of governance practices and support broader enterprise data initiatives. Perform other duties as assigned.

Education:

Minimum Education Level: Bachelor s Degree
Area of Study:
Information Systems, Data Science, Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, Computer Science, or related field.

Alternate Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree; or Associate degree and 2 years relevant professional experience in addition to the minimum experience requirement; or HS Diploma/GED and 4 years relevant professional experience in addition to the minimum experience requirement.
Years of Experience
Minimum Years of

Experience:

3 years of relevant professional experience

Preferred Experience:

• Experience in healthcare data and analytics environments,…