Data Strategy and Governance Senior Advisor - Evernorth Health Services - Hybrid at Cigna in Morris Plains, New Jersey

Job Description:

Role Summary

The Enterprise Data Management Strategy & Governance team creates and maintains Data Governance (DG) policies, standards, processes, and roles for the enterprise and establishes the oversight and accountability to drive their adoption and compliance. It ensures that the company's data has a high degree of reliability and integrity. The mission is to maximize data value for business stakeholders, reduce company risk, and create consistent and trusted data throughout its lifecycle.

The Senior Advisor role requires competence across a broad spectrum of governance initiatives, with a focus on the design and roll out of enterprise level requirements for data quality as well as a plan for monitoring success and managing issues. The role requires a thought leader in establishing operational and leadership reporting. This individual will work with lines of business (LOBs) to develop requirements, meaningful dashboards, and controls to assess and align data risk to the Enterprise Risk Management standards.

In this highly visible role, the Incumbent will collaborate 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.

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.The incumbent will interact with a variety of organizational leaders advocating that it is both feasible and optimal to adopt clinical reference data from a single source, instead of acquiring and maintaining reference data at the department level.


• 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.

Qualifications

• 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

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.

About The Cigna Group

Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we're dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

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