NEW JOB OPENING
DATA GOVERNANCE LEAD
IN Quincy, MA, USA!

***Only qualified Data Governance Lead candidates located in the Quincy, MA area will be considered due to the position requiring an on-site presence***



Required Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in public health, Health Informatics, Information Systems, Data Management, Public Administration, or related field, or equivalent experience



Desired Education:



• Master’s degree in public health (MPH), Health Informatics, or related field



Required Skills:

• 7+ years of experience in data governance, data management, public health informatics, or enterprise data roles

• Demonstrated experience establishing or leading data governance programs in government or regulated environments

• Strong understanding of public health data domains and data lifecycle management

• Ability to work effectively across programs, agencies, and technical disciplines

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including policy and documentation development

• Strong change management and organizational adoption skills



Desired Skills:

• Experience supporting state or federal public health data modernization initiatives

• Familiarity with CDC Data Modernization Initiative (DMI) principles and funding requirements

• Experience with metadata management, data catalogs, or governance tooling used in public-sector environments

• Knowledge of Medicaid, surveillance, registry, laboratory, or vital records data systems

• Experience supporting grant-funded programs, performance reporting, or audits



The ideal candidate provides strategic and operational leadership for data governance activities supporting statewide public health data modernization initiatives. This role establishes and oversees data governance frameworks, standards, and stewardship models to ensure public health data are accurate, secure, interoperable, and shaped for policy, surveillance, and program decision-making. The position works closely with epidemiology, analytics, IT, program leadership, and external partners to strengthen trust and usability of public health data across the state



Job Responsibilities:



• Establish governance policies, standards, and operating procedures covering data quality, metadata, access, privacy, and lifecycle management

• Specifying what information needs to exist in the Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) for every dataset (ex: required metadata fields, codebooks, lineage diagrams, refresh cadence, access rules, etc.)

• Specifying how work is done in EDP (ex: naming conventions, versioning, code standardization, etc.)

• Serving in an advisory role in governance forums - especially as a technical advisor on EDP capabilities, constraints, best practices, etc.

• Align governance activities with public health data modernization initiatives, including cloud migration, system modernization, and interoperability efforts

• Ensuring governance is embedded into new data platforms, pipelines, and analytic tools

• Enabling standardization of data by ensuring that reference tables, shared mappings, reusable transformations, etc. exist in EDP to support standardization where possible.

• Establish data quality expectations and oversight processes in collaboration with data quality and informatics teams

• Support health equity initiatives by ensuring standardized, complete, and accurate demographic data

Privacy, Security & Compliance

• Partner with legal, privacy, and security teams to ensure governance policies align with HIPAA, state privacy laws, and data use agreements

• Support appropriate data access, sharing, and transparency while protecting sensitive public health information

Stakeholder Engagement & Change Management

• Serve as a liaison between public health programs, IT, epidemiology, developers, and external partners on governance matters

• Translate governance concepts into practical guidance for program and technical staff

• Support training and communication to build data governance literacy across the agency

• Represent the state in interstate, federal, or multi-agency data governance discussions as needed

• **Only those lawfully authorized to work in the designated country associated with the position will be considered.**

• **Please note that all Position start dates and duration are estimates and may be reduced or lengthened based upon a client’s business needs and requirements.**