Professional, Sr. Data Governance Program Analyst

MVP Health Care • Schenectady, NY

7d

About The Position

Join Us in Shaping the Future of Health Care At MVP Health Care, we’re on a mission to create a healthier future for everyone. That means embracing innovation, championing equity, and continuously improving how we serve our communities. Our team is powered by people who are curious, humble, and committed to making a difference—every interaction, every day. We’ve been putting people first for over 40 years, offering high-quality health plans across New York and Vermont and partnering with forward-thinking organizations to deliver more personalized, equitable, and accessible care. As a not-for-profit, we invest in what matters most: our customers, our communities, and our team. What’s in it for you: Growth opportunities to uplevel your career A people-centric culture embracing and celebrating diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences within our team Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits focused on well-being An opportunity to shape the future of health care by joining a team recognized as a Best Place to Work For in the NY Capital District, one of the Best Companies to Work For in New York, and an Inclusive Workplace. You’ll contribute to our humble pursuit of excellence by bringing curiosity to spark innovation, humility to collaborate as a team, and a deep commitment to being the difference for our customers. Your role will reflect our shared goal of enhancing health care delivery and building healthier, more vibrant communities. The Professional, Sr. Data Governance Program Analyst leads the strategy, operating model, and day‑to‑day practices that keep MVP’s data trustworthy, compliant, and ready for use at scale. You’ll embed governance into our Azure Databricks Lakehouse and Unity Catalog, operationalize metadata and lineage in Informatica CDGC, and drive measurable improvements in data quality—enabling safe, consistent, and value‑driven use of MVP’s data across the enterprise. This position requires partnership with our offshore Managed Services team, ensuring their work is prioritized and aligned with roadmap.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required (Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, or related field preferred).
• 7+ years in data governance/data management (senior‑level impact).
• Healthcare experience (2+ years preferred) with HIPAA/PHI exposure.
• Proven ability to design/evolve frameworks and RACI/decision rights, run councils, and drive cross‑functional adoption.
• Translate policies into platform controls in Unity Catalog and Informatica CDGC; align with Security/Risk/Compliance and audit needs.
• Define DQ rules/SLAs, instrument monitoring in Databricks pipelines, and lead remediation to closure with measurable impact.
• Operationalize glossary, stewardship workflows, classifications, and lineage in CDGC and Unity Catalog, with coverage metrics for CDEs.
• Executive‑grade storytelling, stakeholder facilitation, and influence‑without‑authority; produce dashboards, playbooks, and training that stick.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with IDMC services (quality/integration) complementing CDGC/MDM and with BI tooling (Power BI, Tableau, Databricks AI/BI) for stewardship scorecards.
• Working SQL/Python proficiency for profiling/validation and partnering on control implementation in Databricks pipelines.
• Certifications a plus (e.g., CDMP, DCAM familiarity).

Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise data governance roadmap, KPIs, and maturity plan; facilitate governance forums and align priorities to business outcomes and regulatory needs (HIPAA/PHI).
• Define and maintain policies, standards, and procedures for data quality, metadata, classification, access, and lifecycle; translate policy into actionable controls across platforms.
• Develop and shepherd the run state processes for Data Governance across the enterprise.
• Implement guardrails using Unity Catalog (ownership, privileges, row/column access, tags/classifications, lineage) and Informatica CDGC (business glossary, steward workflows, approvals).
• Partner with Security/Risk/Compliance/Audit to map policy to controls and ensure audit‑ready evidence.
• Lead data quality disciplines: define dimensions and rules, instrument monitoring in Databricks pipelines (bronze/silver/gold), and publish quality scorecards.
• Run end-to-end issue management; ensure durable fixes in upstream processes.
• Govern enterprise glossary, technical metadata, classifications, PII/PHI tags, and end‑to‑end lineage.
• Drive adoption and completeness in CDGC and ensure Unity Catalog lineage/tags stay aligned to enterprise definitions, report coverage for critical data elements.
• Deliver training, playbooks, and office hours to grow literacy and accelerate self‑service within guardrails.
• Provide executive‑ready dashboards for governance KPIs (quality, glossary coverage, lineage completeness, policy adoption, audit readiness); run periodic maturity assessments and prioritize improvements.

Benefits

• Growth opportunities to uplevel your career
• A people-centric culture embracing and celebrating diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences within our team
• Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits focused on well-being
• An opportunity to shape the future of health care by joining a team recognized as a Best Place to Work For in the NY Capital District, one of the Best Companies to Work For in New York, and an Inclusive Workplace.
• MVP Health Care is committed to providing competitive employee compensation and benefits packages.
• The base pay range provided for this role reflects our good faith compensation estimate at the time of posting.
• MVP adheres to pay transparency nondiscrimination principles.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level