Data Stewardship Community Developer

Location: Virtual/Remote

What You Will Do
 

Data Stewardship Community Developer Role Description

The Data Stewardship Community Developer will become a subject matter expert in Data Governance processes and be able to communicate and teach these processes to a wide audience of data stewards across Ascension data domains. This person will foster engagement from identified data stewards and help build a community around their functional data domain. The Data Stewardship Community Developer champions Data Governance efforts, focusing on data definitions, data quality, and standardized processes. 

 
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Becomes a subject matter expert for data governance processes and our Data Governance Platforms (Collibra, Informatica Data Quality)
• Conducts end-user trainings to teach data stewards about the platforms
• Actively engages with others to communicate about changes, listen, and obtain feedback for sharing within Data Governance
• Inspires and influences others to adopt changes in mindset and behavior
• Develops documentation and job aids to assist onboarding of new data stewards
• Maintain continuous dialog with data stewardship community and evangelize data stewardship and data governance across Ascension
• Champions changes to job roles, systems/technology, organization structures, and business practices
• Understands what is changing, why, how, who is impacted, and the benefits
• Collect and synthesize constraints/enhancements/suggestions from the stewardship community to help drive continuous improvement
• Monitors overall progress of data stewards
• Builds dashboards to highlight data quality issues
• Identifies and reports data quality issues, related to uniqueness, integrity, accuracy, consistency, and completeness in a timely fashion
• Collaborates with Master Data Management, Data Delivery and all other Ascension Technologies teams to manage and resolve identified data quality issues.
• Participate in regularly scheduled and ad hoc data steward meetings, forums, work groups, and educational sessions
• Participate in training and meetings to facilitate the sharing of data across functional areas and understanding of stewardship best practices and facilitate the sharing of data stewardship best practices 
• Understand high-level data processes and down-stream impacts within decision making 

SKILLS:

• Excellent oral, verbal and written communication skills
• Communicate effectively with diverse people at various organization levels with right level of detail and cultural sensitivity
• Strong meeting facilitation skills as well as presentation skills
• Ability to teach/train others complex processes and workflows
• Ability to create training materials and other artifacts to support the data stewardship community
• Ability to analyze and document complex processes and sub-processes
• Ability to learn new platforms and software
• Ability to use the Data Governance Platforms (walk the talk)
• Query data for aiding discovery of definitions
• Improve data quality and create dashboards to highlight enhancement opportunities
• Preferred software experience
  • Collibra
  • Informatica Data Quality
  • SQL
  • Python
  • REDCap
  • Tableau

Flexible and open to new ideas with the ability to understand things from corporate, regional and local perspective while maintaining customer focus. Proven ability to work in an ambiguous environment; self-motivated to work in an independent and collaborative mode. Ability to build strong relationships with peers and leaders by building trust and credibility; strong collaboration skills. Active listening skills to understand business needs and steer business team to take decisions that have enterprise-wide impact. Effectively influence a team of individuals without reporting authority to achieve goals and meet deadlines

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology, Mathematics or other related major

• Experiencing speaking to diverse audiences and delivering training preferred
• Experience working in a healthcare environment preferred
• Experience working in Data Governance or related field preferred
• General knowledge of hospital operations, patient management, the interrelationship of systems, and how technology enables business processes
• Basic knowledge of backend database configuration and processes
• Previous provider and clinical systems knowledge is preferred, both in the inpatient and ambulatory settings

What You Will Need
 

Education:

• High school diploma/GED with 2 years of experience, or Associate's  degree, or Bachelor's degree required.

Work Experience:

• 3 years of experience preferred.

Why Join Our Team
 

Ascension is a faith-based healthcare organization dedicated to transformation through innovation across the continuum of care. As one of the leading non-profit and Catholic health systems in the U.S., Ascension is committed to delivering compassionate, personalized care to all. In FY2020, Ascension provided $2.4 billion in care of persons living in poverty and other community benefit programs. Ascension includes more than 160,000 associates and 40,000 aligned providers across a national network of ministries. We offer rewarding careers across more than 2,600 sites of care – including 146 hospitals and more than 50 senior living facilities – in 19 states and the District of Columbia.

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
 

Ascension Technologies is an equal opportunity employer (EEO) and affords equal opportunity to all associates and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic data, or other legally protected status. For further information regarding your EEO rights, click on the following link to the “EEO is the Law” poster:

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