Data Governance Analyst 2
Employer not yet confirmed · Fairfax, Virginia, United States · remote
Inova Health is looking for a dedicated Data Governance Analyst 2 to join the team. This role is Full-time Days working regular office hours Monday to Friday fully Remote.
This position is eligible for remote work for candidates residing in the following states – VA, MD, DC, DE, FL, GA, NC, OH, PA, SC, TN, TX, WV.
Inova is consistently ranked a national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation.
Featured Benefits:
- Committed to Team Member Health: offering medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program.
- Retirement: Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions – starting on your first day.
- Tuition and Student Loan Assistance: offering up to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans.
- Mental Health Support: offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.
- Work/Life Balance: offering paid time off, paid parental leave, flexible work schedules.
Data Governance Analyst 2 Job Responsibilities:
- Support the data governance office in defining and developing policies, standards, processes, and metrics.
- Develop quality data practices and work with business to define acceptable thresholds for success.
- Recommend and implement strategies to promote a data-driven culture within the organization.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to assess understanding of data and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Supports development of governance documentation, standards, and guidance to promote consistent data usage across the organization.
- Maintain awareness of Inova’s Data Asset Inventories, Catalogs, Business Glossaries, Data Lineage including documentation of data architecture.
- Monitor metrics related to use of Inova’s data assets.
- Provide practice knowledge guidance to Junior analysts as needed.
- Supports data access controls across analytics and enterprise platforms.
- Reviews and validates access requests (e.g., PROD vs NON-PROD, reports, dashboards, data extracts).
- Applies role-based access governance and least privilege standards while identifying potential risk gaps or policy exceptions.
- Partners directly with Information Security, Compliance, Audit, and technical teams on governance-related reviews and remediation activities.
- Supports governance decisions related to data sharing, outbound data usage, and sensitive data handling practices.
- Maintains and improves governance controls, documentation standards, and audit readiness processes.
- Identifies trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement related to data governance and access management practices.
- Partners with Information Security and IT to align governance processes with security policies.
Minimum Requirements:
- Education: Associate degree OR 2 years relevant professional experience in addition to the minimum Experience requirement
- Experience: 3 years of experience in healthcare or business environment AND 2 years of experience working with data access, data quality, or metadata management processes or with data governance, data management, or analytics operations.
- Certification: EPIC certified within six months of hire.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Epic Security and Epic Certification preferred***
- Analytics security administration and user access management.
- Role-based access control (RBAC), security provisioning, and permission management.
- Epic analytics security (Cogito, Radar, Reporting Workbench, SlicerDicer, or related Epic security experience preferred).
- Troubleshooting user access issues and partnering with technical teams to resolve security-related requests.
- Understanding of least-privilege access principles, compliance, and audit readiness.
- Working with Active Directory/security groups and access request workflows.
- Documentation of security standards, access procedures, and governance processes.