Manager, Data Governance, Analytics

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Arizona.

📋 Description

• Assist in implementing Business Analytics strategies that enhance organizational reporting, data governance, quality assurance, project delivery, and operational performance objectives.

• Create and sustain business definitions, reporting logic, data dictionaries, metadata, reporting inventories, lineage documentation, process documentation, and governance standards.

• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to define data requirements, document ownership, investigate data quality issues, and advocate for the use of governed data.

• Evaluate reporting and analytic processes for discrepancies in data definitions, business rules, sourcing, transformation logic, and documentation.

• Facilitate governance meetings, working sessions, issue tracking, decision documentation, and follow-up actions.

• Design, maintain, and produce regular reports, dashboards, analyses, and ad hoc requests utilizing SQL, Tableau, DataMarts, cloud-based analytics platforms, and enterprise reporting tools.

• Collect and document business requirements, converting them into actionable analytic and reporting outputs.

• Analyze business performance, operational trends, financial results, utilization, and other metrics to derive insights.

• Manage reporting schedules, process documentation, business logic, and production procedures.

• Conduct quality assurance and validation of reports, dashboards, datasets, queries, business logic, transformations, and analytic results.

• Create and implement test plans, validation queries, reconciliations, reasonability checks, and documentation.

• Investigate discrepancies, reporting defects, and process gaps; document findings; carry out root-cause analysis; and aid in solutions.

• Engage in peer reviews and assessments of production readiness.

• Coordinate analytics, reporting, governance, documentation, quality assurance, migration, and process improvement initiatives.

• Maintain project plans, milestones, timelines, status updates, risks, dependencies, action items, and deliverables.

• Lead project meetings, communicate progress, escalate risks, and ensure follow-through on commitments.

• Work collaboratively with stakeholders, analytics teams, IT, data engineering, cloud platform teams, and leadership.

• Aid in cloud analytics modernization and reporting transition efforts, including migration validation and cloud resource/query awareness.

• Share expertise and encourage consistent practices in documentation, requirements gathering, SQL analysis, validation, reporting, and project coordination.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in analytics, business intelligence, reporting, data governance, business analysis, quality assurance, or related data-focused roles.

• Proficient in SQL, including querying, combining, analyzing, validating, and reconciling data from various sources.

• Experience in supporting business intelligence and reporting solutions, such as dashboards, DataMarts, reporting workflows, relational data structures, and analytic outputs.

• Understanding of data quality, data governance, business rules, reporting logic, requirements gathering, testing, documentation, and validation practices.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of explaining technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Proven experience in supporting data governance and stewardship activities, developing and maintaining business definitions, reporting logic, data dictionaries, metadata, reporting inventories, lineage documentation, process documentation, and governance standards.

• Preferred: experience in healthcare, payer, pharmacy benefit management, government programs, regulated reporting, utilization, financial analytics, or similar business intelligence environments.

• Preferred: familiarity with cloud-based analytics platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), BigQuery (BQ), Dataiku, or similar technologies.

• Preferred: ability to collaborate with business stakeholders, analytics teams, IT teams, data engineers, cloud platform teams, and leadership.

• Preferred: project coordination and organizational skills, including managing multiple priorities, timelines, dependencies, and deliverables.

• Preferred: strong problem-solving abilities, including identifying data and reporting issues, conducting root-cause analysis, and implementing solutions.

• Preferred: keen attention to detail and a commitment to producing accurate, high-quality, well-documented analytical work.

• Preferred: strong written and verbal communication skills for translating business requirements into reporting, analytics, or technical solutions.

• Preferred: adaptability, continuous learning, and a commitment to process improvement.

• A bachelor’s degree is preferred, or equivalent specialized training, relevant professional qualification, or comparable professional experience in a related field.

🏝️ Benefits

• CVS Health bonus, commission, or short-term incentive program in addition to base salary.

• Medical coverage.

• Dental coverage.

• Vision coverage.

• Paid time off.

• Retirement savings options.

• Wellness programs.

• Additional resources supporting physical, emotional, and financial well-being.