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# TELECOMMUTE Data Governance Lead

- **Company:** U.S. Tech Solutions Inc.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Data Governance, Interoperability, Data Classification, Data Strategy, Data Management
- **Published:** August 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/2208ac58-2ec4-4c47-9da6-cc668f01a3e1

## About the Role

* Level of education required.

## Description

The Department of Health is seeking a Data Governance Lead to establish, lead, and mature a province-wide health data governance program. The role will ensure health data is trusted, secure, ethically used, standardized, and effectively leveraged for clinical transformation, analytics, research, and secondary use.
Key Responsibilities

 * Lead the provincial health data governance strategy and framework, including policies, standards, decision rights, accountability, data ownership, stewardship, and custodianship.
 * Translate health information legislation, including PHIPPA, into practical governance policies and operational guidance.
 * Develop data classification schemas, governance models, data standards, dictionaries, and governance artifacts.
 * Establish and support data governance committees, councils, and working groups.
 * Define responsibilities for Data Owners, Data Stewards, and Data Custodians.
 * Enable secure and compliant secondary use of health data for analytics, research, population health, performance management, and policy development.
 * Drive data quality, standardization, interoperability, access controls, privacy, and consent management.
 * Collaborate with Chief Privacy Officers, clinicians, SMEs, BI/Analytics teams, Department of Health, RHAs, SNB, and health-system executives.
 * Lead stakeholder engagement, facilitation, consensus building, and public/patient data-literacy initiatives.
 * Lead planning, execution, and delivery of data governance and stewardship projects.


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