Data Governance Analyst 2

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.