Senior Advisor, Data Governance & Platform Enablement
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The Data & Analytics Function oversees the analytics life-cycle in order to identify, analyze and present relevant insights that drive business decisions and anticipate opportunities to achieve a competitive advantage. This function manages analytic data platforms, the access, design and implementation of reporting/business intelligence solutions, and the application of advanced quantitative modeling.
Data Management and Governance provides direction of data assets and is responsible for data strategy, quality, standards and service levels. Data management acquires, validates, standardizes, enriches, protects and publishes structured, third party and unstructured data for use by the business. Governance defines and implements policies, standards and metrics that ensure the effective and efficient use of trusted data and statistical models to support regulatory and business goals., The Senior Advisor, Data Governance & Platform Enablement plays a critical role in advancing data governance capabilities across Sonexus, with a primary focus on establishing trust in data assets that support analytics, AI, and emerging agentic systems. This role operates as a hands-on consultant while partnering closely with business, analytics, and engineering stakeholders., * Serve as a hands-on data governance consultant within Sonexus, enabling and operationalizing governance capabilities across the analytics platform (Databricks).
- Establish and evolve a data governance strategy that supports trusted, well-understood data assets for business functions, analytics, AI, and advanced use cases.
- Define and maintain governance standards that promote data discoverability, appropriate use, and confidence in data, in partnership with Information Security and compliance teams and aligned with enterprise/regulatory expectations and tools.
- Partner with Data Owners, Business Stakeholders, and Technical Leads to identify and prioritize critical data elements that impact reporting, decisions, and AI outcomes.
- Capture and govern business data definitions and essential dataset context to ensure consistent interpretation and use.
- Apply governance within a central-to-federated operating model, enabling distributed ownership while maintaining alignment to enterprise standards.
- Identify opportunities to improve data quality, reliability, and consistency through analysis, partnership, and governance controls.
- Act as a trusted advisor and change agent, communicating governance progress, risks, and outcomes in clear, business-focused terms., * Applies advanced knowledge and understanding of concepts, principles, and technical capabilities to manage a wide variety of projects
- Participates in the development of policies and procedures to achieve specific goals
- Recommends new practices, processes, metrics, or models
- Works on or may lead complex projects of large scope
- Projects may have significant and long-term impact
- Provides solutions which may set precedent
- Independently determines method for completion of new projects
- Receives guidance on overall project objectives
- Acts as a mentor to less experienced colleagues
TRAINING AND WORK SCHEDULES: Your new hire training will take place 8:00am-5:00pm CST, mandatory attendance is required.
This position is full-time (40 hours/week). Employees are required to have ability to work the scheduled shift of Monday-Friday, 8:00am- 5:00pm CT.
REMOTE DETAILS: You will work remotely, full-time. It will require a dedicated, quiet, private, distraction free environment with access to high-speed internet. We will provide you with the computer, technology and equipment needed to successfully perform your job. You will be responsible for providing high-speed internet. Internet requirements include the following:
- Maintain a secure, high-speed, broadband internet connection (DSL, Cable, or Fiber) at the remote location. Dial-up, satellite, WIFI, Cellular connections are NOT acceptable.
Requirements
- 6-12 years of experience in data governance, data management, analytics enablement, or related data roles, preferably within complex or regulated environment preferred
- Demonstrated experience working with modern cloud data platforms, with strong preference for GCP and Databricks.
- Proven ability to apply governance concepts in practice, balancing business needs, speed, and risk.
- Strong communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to translate technical and governance concepts into business-relevant language.
- Proven ability to influence without authority and operate effectively in environments with evolving requirements.
- Self-driven, adaptable, and comfortable operating in ambiguity., * Data definitions and semantics
- Critical data elements and prioritization
- Metadata management and data classification
- Data quality concepts and impacts
Experience partnering effectively with
- Business and functional stakeholders
- Analytics and BI teams
- Data engineering and platform teams, Candidates who are back-to-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.
Benefits & conditions
- Upload speed of 5Mbps (megabyte per second)
- Ping Rate Maximum of 30ms (milliseconds)
- Hardwired to the router
- Surge protector with Network Line Protection for CAH issued equipment
Anticipated salary range: $105,100-$150,100 annually
Bonus eligible: Yes
Benefits: Cardinal Health offers a wide variety of benefits and programs to support health and well-being.
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- Paid time off plan
- Health savings account (HSA)
- 401k savings plan
- Access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay
- Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- Work-Life resources
- Paid parental leave
- Healthy lifestyle programs
