Advisor, Data Management & Governance

P3 Level: Advisor, Data Management and Governance

What Data Management and Governance contributes to Cardinal Health
The Data & Analytics Function oversees the analytics life-cycle in order to identify, analyze and present relevant insights that drive business decisions and anticipate opportunities to achieve a competitive advantage. This function manages analytic data platforms, the access, design and implementation of reporting/business intelligence solutions, and the application of advanced quantitative modeling.

Data Management and Governance provides direction of data assets and is responsible for data strategy, quality, standards, and service levels. Data management acquires, validates, standardizes, enriches, protects and publishes structured, third party and unstructured data for use by the business. Governance defines and implements policies, standards and metrics that ensure the effective and efficient use of trusted data and statistical models to support regulatory and business goals.

Responsibilities

The Advisor, Data Governance will be part of the Digital Solutions – Products and Platforms organization and function as a Data Governance Specialist responsible for advancing and maturing Data Governance capabilities across the enterprise. This role will act as a Data Steward and change agent working directly with Data Owners, Business Stakeholders, Data Leads and SMEs to:

• Execute data governance use cases leveraging the Data Governance Playbook
• Work with Data Owners and other stakeholders to establish and progress towards defined targets for data management maturity and data quality index
• Capture and maintain data ownership, prioritization, and criticality of data elements
• Capture and maintain metadata
• Identify opportunities to improve data quality through data remediation, process controls, and technology controls
• Present at Working Groups and other Leadership meetings for alignment and approval
• Create and govern current state and future state data flows, with identification of dependencies and integration points
• Support quality & regulatory teams to drive data compliance

Qualifications

• 6-10 years of industry experience
• Process oriented, with experience in process mapping
• Strong project management skills to plan, organize and execute work independently

Cardinal Health core leadership essentials

• Strong communication skills to collaborate across various teams and process areas
• Strong influential and facilitation skills to collaborate across various teams and process areas
• Personal courage and resiliency
• Self-driven and eager to learn
• Trusted to do the right thing
• Discipline in process execution

Knowledge of data management processes

• Ability to understand data structures and data elements
• Ability to understand and drive data governance, data quality and data remediation
• Ability to understand the business, high-level technical solutions and associated data creation and consumption

Looking for in this role:

• Strong communication skills to collaborate across various teams and process areas including both business and technical teams
• Strong influential and facilitation skills to collaborate across various teams and process areas
• Ability to understand data structures and data elements
• Ability to understand and drive data governance, data quality and data remediation
• Ability to understand and guide data modeling, data lineage and data usage decisions
• Ability to understand the business, high-level technical solutions and associated data creation and consumption
• Discipline in process execution

Basic Skillset:

• Project Management
• Stakeholder Management
• End-to-end process or source-to-target data flow mapping (preferred)
• Business Analysis

Exposures (nice to have):

• System Architecture
• Data Profiling
• Data Privacy or Data Security
• Data Management Maturity Assessments (ex: CMMI or DCAM)
• OpEx, Lean, Six Sigma
• Kafka
• Tool Familiarity (nice to have):
• Hive, Monday, Trello, or Jira
• Visio or LucidChart
• Collibra Data Governance
• Collibra Data Quality
• OWL Data Quality
• SQL (Standard, BQ, or Spark)
• Big Query or GCP User

Candidates who are back-to-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.

Cardinal Health supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.