Data Strategy and Governance Senior Advisor - Evernorth Health Services - Hybrid

Cigna - Morris Plains, NJ

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - Morris Plains, NJ

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About the position

The Enterprise Data Management Strategy & Governance team at The Cigna Group is responsible for creating and maintaining Data Governance (DG) policies, standards, processes, and roles for the enterprise. This team establishes oversight and accountability to drive the adoption and compliance of these policies, ensuring that the company's data maintains a high degree of reliability and integrity. The mission of the team is to maximize data value for business stakeholders, reduce company risk, and create consistent and trusted data throughout its lifecycle. The Senior Advisor role is pivotal, requiring competence across a broad spectrum of governance initiatives. The focus is on designing and rolling out enterprise-level requirements for data quality, as well as developing a plan for monitoring success and managing issues. This role demands a thought leader who can establish operational and leadership reporting. The incumbent will collaborate with lines of business (LOBs) to develop requirements, create meaningful dashboards, and implement controls to assess and align data risk with the Enterprise Risk Management standards. In this highly visible position, the Senior Advisor will work closely with business and technical leaders, as well as subject matter experts, to drive practices that support the standardization of operational information and the execution of enterprise-wide data governance policies and standards. This role is essential for ensuring that data governance practices are effectively integrated across the organization, promoting a culture of data quality and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Provides counsel and advice to top management on significant Data Management Strategy & Governance matters, often requiring coordination between organizations.
• Supports, advocates, and implements the general strategy for definition and delivery of critical clinical reference information used across Evernorth and Cigna.
• Contributes to Drug data governance and applies seasoned knowledge to ensure data quality.
• Contributes to Drug data oversight, data usage, systems analysis and data retention to assure data quality standards.
• Develops technical strategy that maintains and delivers clinical reference data intra-departmentally, across the enterprise, and for external customers.
• Collaborates with other departments to ensure Drug data consistency and quality throughout the organization in concert with designated data steward.
• May provide technical expertise to clients regarding information flow, data privacy, data security, data content issues, data warehousing and data mining.
• Focuses on providing thought leadership and technical expertise across multiple disciplines as it relates to data management.
• Recognized internally as the subject matter expert for the most complex Drug Data Management Strategy & Governance assignments.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a healthcare, business, governance, computer science or related field strongly preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years' experience with data governance, controls, metadata, data quality, and/or reporting processes and tools, healthcare industry and Alteryx experience preferred.
• Knowledge of Cigna/Evernorth lines of business or products; and/or hands-on experience with data management (medical, provider, claims, clinical, pharmacy, eligibility etc.).
• Ability to convey complex data concepts via visual techniques to succinctly communicate for decision-making.
• Highly self-motivated to do what it takes to achieve success and navigate in a highly matrixed environment.
• Ability to manage timelines and meet tight deadlines.
• Experience working in Agile project management preferred (JIRA experience a plus).
• Ability to demonstrate and honor principles of Service, Innovation, Diversity, Empowerment, Integrity, Self-motivation, and Passion.