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Job description:

*** Very long term project; Long term - usually goes for 3+ years***Webcam interview; Mostly remote; must pick up laptop in person and be onsite as needed *** 37.5 hours per week ***

BACKGROUND/PROBLEM STATEMENT

The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting all Pennsylvanians and data is a critical part to DOHs response to the pandemic.  The DOH has established a contracted position to manage and promote an integrated and readily accessible data ecosystem for the Department serving as the Enterprise Data Manager for the Public Health Data Modernization initiative.  This position will report to the Deputy Secretary for Health Resources and Services who is also fills the role as the Departments Chief Business Analytics Officer and have a strong partnership with the IT DOH/DDAP Solutions Management Director.

RESOURCES

The contractor will be permitted to work from home, but office space for the contractor will be provided as needed. In addition, DOH will supply all necessary hardware and software for daily use that are needed to complete assigned work items.

OBJECTIVES OF ENGAGEMENT

The Enterprise Data Manager (EDM) is a member of the Department of Healths core data governance team who understands core governance principles, lineage and the interdependencies across programs and systems to drive standards and consistency. The EDM understands department data flows and principles of conformed dimensions. The EDM will establish governance rules, controls, and processes to provide public health decision makers with accessible, timely, reliable, and meaningful data to drive policies and interventions.

The EDM will work with health data from multiple data systems at the Department and analyze how the different data models can be integrated into one integrated central data model. The EDM will be responsible for discovery and business requirement sessions with various stakeholders along with analysis of data from disparate systems. The EDM will be involved with analytics and business intelligence for data in data lakes and EDW on an on-going basis to provide for continuous improvement, governance, and standards. 

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to be able to interact with all levels of the Department. 
• Ability to accurately capture business requirements and effectively convey business needs to IT counterparts, while ensuring that IT projects are in sync with business goals and that their end results satisfactorily meet business needs. 
• Interface with cross-functional teams and management to establish, implement, and ensure adherence to data policies and processes. 
• Strong analytical and computation skills and understanding of the integration of different data points across systems to present an enterprise view.
• Ability to communicate and present results with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience with identifying relevant data gaps for evaluation and evidence needs and developing roadmaps for addressing data gaps.
• Knowledge and experience of data governance processes and frameworks.
• Ability to draft current and future workflows of data flows for presentations with various stakeholders.
• Based on data collection needs, works with various stakeholders to obtain input and feedback on final engagement outputs.
• Experienced in creating and maintaining data catalogues. 
• Understating of relational databases and experience with transformations and data mappings.
• Strong data modelling knowledge and ability to interpret complete data from multiple data sources and develop findings and recommendations.
• Experienced in consolidating internal and external data to explore patterns and improve outcomes.
• Experience with establishing interoperability with healthcare IT systems (such as Electronic Medical Record systems) preferred. 
• Knowledge of Enterprise Data Warehouse and Date Maturity Model preferred.
• Experience with Tableau or PowerBI preferred.

OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

The selected contractor must demonstrate effective for leadership for data modernization, data governance, data interoperability & integration and data security. 

The contractor will be required to:

• Engage with program data stewards and team members to document descriptions of datasets, data assets, dashboards, and reports.
• Create a dashboard to track programs of the inventory and descriptions of data assets
• Review systems and feeds for data quality process sufficiency feeding Enterprise sources and recommend changes
• Create a dashboard to track data quality process evaluation and progress
• Document specific data flows when relevant to the enterprise view of metrics and data including using appropriate tools for lineage and profiling to improve data quality
• Review program requirements and understand the impact on the Enterprise view of data
• Document decisions that impact the enterprise view of data
• Engage in reviewing metrics to ensure adequate privacy
• Drive adoption of data governance policies and participate in data governance meetings and follow up items
• Drive compliance with established policies
• Document external data to assist in combining third party data with first party data to create relevant derivative / second party data for analysis
• Participate in the creation of dashboards and reports to track progress of Data Governance activities

CONTRACTOR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

• This position requires a high degree of skill, leadership, ability to take initiative, and dedication. Bachelors or graduate degree in Health Informatics, Public Health, Data Science, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Public Policy, Health Policy, Health Services Research, Health Information Sciences, Computer Science, or a closely related field.
• 5-8 years of relevant experience in data governance, database management, analysis. 
• Experience setting up an enterprise wide data governance structure, knowledge of data lakes and data maturity models preferred.  Familiarity and experience with programs relative to health and human services is considered helpful.

Required Skills:

• Bachelors in Health Informatics, Data Science, Health Information Science, Computer Science or closely related field
• 5 years of Enterprise Data Warehouse
• 5 years of Data Maturity Model
• 5 years of Data Governance
• 5 years of Database Management
• 5 years of Data Analysis
• 5 years of Experience setting up enterprise wide data governance structure

Highly desired skills:

• Knowledge of data lakes and data maturity models
• Experience with Health related data

Contact the recruiter working on this position:

The recruiter working on this position is Fazal(Shaji Team) Uddin
His/her contact number is +(1) (703) 4684697
His/her contact email is fazal@msysinc.com

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