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Data Governance Lead
Trillium Professional is now seeking a Data Governance Lead in Quincy, MA for a hybrid position!
Job Duties:
Data Governance Leadership
-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
Pay rate is $83/hour. Apply now!
Qualifications:
-Bachelor’s degree in public health, Health Informatics, Information Systems, Data Management, Public Administration, or related field, or equivalent experience
-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
Bonus Qualifications:
-Master’s degree in public health (MPH), Health Informatics, or related field
-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
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Trillium offers a comprehensive benefit package that includes the ability to participate in health insurance and retirement plans, paid holidays, state required leave, and other leave, if applicable. Trillium’s offerings are dependent on the state in which the assignment is located, length of time worked, and may change depending on assignment. Benefit packages for direct hire placements vary based on the client company.
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