Data Governance Program Director

Company: Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Location: Seattle
Posted on: April 1, 2025

Job Description:

The hiring range for this role is: 125,870.00 - 176,525.00This is the lowest to highest salary we, in good faith, believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the hiring range and this hiring range may also be modified in the future. A candidate's position within the hiring range may be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, relevant experience, skills, seniority, performance, shift, travel requirements, and business or organizational needs.This job is also eligible for annual bonus incentive pay.We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, 11 holidays, medical/dental/vision insurance, generous 401(k) matching, lifestyle spending account and many other benefits to eligible employees.Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or any other form of compensation that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole discretion, consistent with the law.Assists in developing long-term strategy for the BCBSA internal Data Management & Governance efforts. Provides leadership, subject matter expertise and process support related to business process and data flow design and documentation, Facilitates best practices between Plans regarding data governance practices. Identifies trusted data sources and key process data consumers and creators.. Leads the activities of the Data Governance council(s) and work group(s). Develops and executes strategies designed to improve understanding of business process, data flow, data governance and data quality. Collaborate with data partners such as InfoSec, legal and Data Foundation Solutions. Support business rule definition and requirements for analytic reports and data quality measures. Support data analytics and data delivery efforts to include guidance on proper data selection, data relationship, creation of reports / analytics and quality review of department work products. Continually aware of industry best practices and tool sets. Must reach consensus with Plan workgroups on difficult and complex issues. Coordination of own work activities with those of other Data Governance team members to maximize team effectiveness.Provides leadership and subject matter expertise related to business process design and documentation and data flow design and documentation as well as creation and maintenance of metadata for company information assetsFacilitates the creation and maintenance of comprehensive business process and annotated data flow diagrams. Identifies trusted data sources and key process data consumers and creators.Leads the activities of the Data Governance council(s) and work group(s) including guidance and subject matter expertise, production of collateral materials, leading / driving discussion and decisions and identifying and driving the resolution of data and process issuesDevelops and executes strategies designed to improve understanding of business process, data flow, data governance and data quality.EducationRequired: Bachelor's degree in business, information technology, healthcare or equivalent experiencePreferred: Master's degree in business, information technology healthcare or equivalent experience.ExperienceRequired:

• 8 years of progressive health insurance experience*
• 8 years of work experience with health care data and health care process / operations*
• 8 years of experience in delivering major initiatives in a health care related field
• 5 years of experience with defining / documenting business process, creating data flows and defining metadata in a formal data governance and business architecture environmentPreferred:
  • 10+ years of progressive health insurance experience in a Blue Cross Blue Shield plan*
  • 10+ years of work experience with health care data and health care process / operations in a Blue Cross Blue Shield plan*
  • 10+ years of experience in delivering major initiatives in a health care related field *
  • 10+ years of experience with defining / documenting business process, creating data flows and defining metadata in a formal data governance and business architecture environmentKnowledge, Skills, and Abilities
    • Broad and deep understanding of health care data and health insurance business process
      • Working knowledge of business process design and modeling
        • Working knowledge of health insurance standard datasets including 837 I&P and 834
          • Understanding of Heath Information Exchange - HL7, data
            • Working knowledge of data flow creation and documentation
              • Demonstrated ability to gather requirements and information in the development of development of deliverables
                • Analytical skills; ability to analyze, define and document data and process models
                  • Relationship management skills; ability to develop key business partnerships both internal and external, build peer relationships; ability to build effective relationships with cross-functional teams, demonstrated interpersonal skills for building and fostering key relationships
                    • Effective organization, presentation, negotiation and communications skills (oral and written).
                      • Critical thinking skills relative to problem analysis/resolution
                        • Relationship management skills; ability to build effective relationships with cross-functional teams, interpersonal skills for building and fostering key relationships; consensus building skillsRevenue Management: NoBudget Management: NoPeople Management: No#LI-Hybrid

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