Job Summary

The Data Quality Lead is a senior contributor within the A&I Data Governance team, bringing analytics fluency and deep governance ability to ensure BSWH?s data is trustworthy, harmonized, and ready for advanced analytics and AI. This role defines and operationalizes enterprise data quality standards across federated domains, partners closely with stewards, analytics, and MDM teams, and promotes transparent data incident management. The ideal candidate is technically strong, strategically minded, and curious, comfortable experimenting with innovative approaches to continuously advance governance maturity and strengthen a culture of trusted, high?quality data.

Essential Functions of the Role 

• Support enterprise data quality frameworks across federated clinical, operational, and financial domains by helping define standards, controls, and shared expectations for CDEs, clinical metrics, regulatory reporting, and AI?ready data.
• Guide and enable data stewards and domain teams in using Ataccama ONE for data quality rule governance, glossary stewardship, metadata completeness, lineage visibility, issue logging, and domain accountability.
• Build and inform DQ monitoring approaches including dashboards, scorecards, and issue?management structures that domains use to track quality, transparency, and stewardship performance. 
• Partner with analytics, IT, and domain leaders to drive consistent adoption of DQ governance practices across federated teams, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities, regulatory expectations, and clinical/operational workflows. 
• Collaborate with MDM governance teams to ensure high?quality healthcare master data (Patient, Provider, Location, Encounter) through aligned standards for matching/merging, golden records, survivorship rules, and reference?data stewardship. 
• Support transparent incident reporting and root?cause analysis by ensuring federated teams follow Ataccama?based workflows and governance processes for documenting, evaluating, and resolving DQ issues. 
• Communicate DQ risks and requirements clearly to domain stakeholders, highlighting impacts on patient safety, quality reporting, operational performance, and enterprise analytics/AI initiatives. 
• Influence adoption of governance and DQ standards across analytic, clinical, and operational teams by reinforcing guardrails, stewardship responsibilities, and the value of trusted data. 
• Find improvements to data quality and stewardship workflows, helping refine operating models and processes that enhance consistency, accountability, and transparency across federated domains. 
• Mentor peers and junior team members to strengthen organizational literacy in data quality, metadata, lineage, and governance practices. 
• Evaluate emerging tools and methods including GenAI?supported DQ signals, anomaly detection for clinical measures, lineage automation, and metadata enrichment to recommend enhancements to the enterprise DQ framework. 
• Monitor trends in data governance, healthcare data quality maturity, and AI safety, integrating relevant advancements into DQ standards, stewardship practices, and Ataccama governance patterns.

Key Success Factors

• Interprets and communicates data quality risks and lineage implications clearly across clinical, operational, and technical stakeholders, enabling informed decision?making in a federated model. 
• Influences stewardship adoption of Ataccama?based workflows, metadata standards, and data quality expectations across domains with effective communication and relationship?building skills. 
• Connects data quality governance to organizational priorities, including patient safety, regulatory compliance, analytics reliability, and AI/ML readiness. 
• Collaborates effectively across analytics, IT, clinical, operational, and MDM teams, resolving ambiguity and guiding alignment on quality standards and governance guardrails. 
• Demonstrates continuous improvement and curiosity, exploring emerging capabilities (GenAI?supported DQ signals, anomaly detection, metadata enrichment, lineage automation) to strengthen governance maturity and steward effectiveness.

Ideal Candidates Will Have Experience: 

• With MDM platforms/processes (matching/merging, golden records, hierarchies, survivorship). 
• Implementing federated governance frameworks. 
• Defining data requirements for AI/ML workloads or automated pipelines. 
• With AI governance concepts (bias mitigation, explainability, lineage traceability, drift/quality monitoring). 
• With Tools such as: Ataccama ONE (DQ rules, profiling, monitoring, metadata, glossary, lineage) or comparable governance suite (Collibra, Alation, Informatica, Talend, Atlan), Snowflake, Databricks, Power BI or similar BI tools for DQ monitoring 
• Experience supporting a DQ/governance platform implementation, including requirements input, configuration collaboration, UAT, and adoption support. 

Preferred Certifications:
CDMP, DAMA, or equivalent.

Salary
The pay range for this position is $40.35/hour ($83,928/year) for entry-level qualifications to $60.52/hour ($125,881/year) for those highly experienced. The specific rate will depend upon the successful candidate?s specific qualifications and prior experience.
 

Qualifications

Preferred 

• 5+ years in data quality in complex or federated data governance environments. 
• Experience implementing enterprise DQ programs, policies, standards, and controls across multiple domains. 
• Advanced SQL for interpreting data structures, validation logic, and understanding profiling/anomaly?detection outputs (not a daily SQL role). 
• Experience creating DQ dashboards/KPIs for stewardship or program monitoring. 
• Working knowledge of data lineage and impact analysis concepts and tools. 
• Strong ability to influence cross?functional stakeholders (analytics, IT, clinical, operational).

Required

• EDUCATION - Bachelor's or 4 years of work experience above the minimum qualification
• EXPERIENCE - 5 Years of Experience
   

About Baylor Scott & White Health

Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) is the largest not-for-profit health care system in Texas and one of the largest in the United States. With a commitment to and a track record of innovation, collaboration, integrity and compassion for the patient, BSWH stands to be one of the nation’s exemplary health care organizations. Our mission is to serve all people by providing personalized health and wellness through exemplary care, education and research as a Christian ministry of healing. Joining our team is not just accepting a job, it’s accepting a calling!

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