The Advanced Analytics Governance Analyst Lead is a senior governance professional who leads key components of our enterprise-wide analytics governance strategy, with a specific focus on metadata management. This role sets direction for how data assets are documented, defined, and made discoverable across the organization and serves as a subject matter resource for data stewards, product owners, and analytics teams to maintain high standards of data clarity, usability, and trust.

This position requires expert communication and facilitation skills, a deep understanding of data governance principles, and the ability to lead presentations and discussions of metric definitions and metadata standards with the Analytics Governance Council and senior leadership. Advanced experience with modern data cataloging and analytics tools is essential.

• Education:
  • 4 Year / Bachelors Degree, required.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Data Science, Business Analytics, or a related field required. In lieu of a bachelor’s degree, four (4) years of additional relevant experience, beyond the minimum experience requirement, will be considered.
  • Graduate Degree, preferred. Information Systems, Data Science, Business Analytics, or a related field.
• Experience:
  • 5 years Experience in data governance, metadata management, or data cataloging, required.
  • 1 year Experience leading governance initiatives or programs in a healthcare or large enterprise environment, preferred.
• Additional Skills (required):
  • Expert understanding of data modeling, data lineage, and business glossary concepts.
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts into business-friendly language for executive audiences.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and facilitate work with stakeholders across business and technical domains.
  • Advanced experience with Databricks Unity Catalog, Metric Insights, or similar metadata/cataloging tools.
  • Knowledge of healthcare data and analytics is required.
  • Experience with Epic and other EHRs is required.
  • Ability to mentor and develop other governance analysts.
• Additional Skills (preferred):
  • Experience designing metadata standards, governance frameworks, or data catalog operating models.
  • Experience with AI tools that use prompting (e.g., copilots), including applying metadata to improve AI-assisted data discovery.

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Data Science, Business Analytics or related field required (or 4 years additional experience); 5 years data governance/metadata management experience; healthcare data and Epic/EHR experience; advanced Databricks Unity Catalog or Metric Insights.

Key Responsibilities

• leading governance strategy
• managing metadata
• facilitating stakeholder discussions

Skills & Tools

Databricks Unity Catalog, Metric Insights, Epic, EHR

Job Details

• Category: Data and Analytics
• Seniority: Senior Level
• Commitment: Full Time
• Workplace: Remote — North Carolina, United States
• Languages: English

About Novant Health

A healthcare organization providing analytics governance and data management. — Industry: Healthcare