Responsibilities
- Implement and uphold data governance policies, standards, and controls aligned with organizational objectives.
- Ensure compliance with enterprise-level data governance guidelines and frameworks.
- Engage in governance councils, stewardship groups, and related decision-making committees.
- Report governance priorities, risks, and performance metrics to executive leadership.
- Act as a subject matter expert for oncology and research-focused data domains.
- Understand organizational data requirements and core business workflows.
- Enforce consistent and compliant use of data across departments and systems.
- Champion standardized data definitions, reference data, and best practices in data management.
- Identify and maintain a current list of Critical Data Elements (CDEs), ensuring ownership, lineage tracking, and quality controls.
- Define, manage, and update business metadata, data glossaries, and terminology standards.
- Develop and maintain documentation and classification systems for critical data elements.
- Keep enterprise metadata cataloged and up to date using platforms such as Alation to enhance data discovery.
- Design and manage proactive and reactive data quality rules and validation checks.
- Conduct data profiling and establish business rules tailored to specific data domains.
- Monitor and analyze data quality dashboards and scorecards for performance insights.
- Identify, log, assess, and resolve data quality issues, overseeing correction and cleansing efforts.
- Maintain a centralized repository for data quality issues and track resolution timelines.
- Document full data lineage for key assets, including source-to-target flows and transformations.
- Collaborate with engineering, business intelligence, and architecture teams to verify lineage accuracy and system inventories.
- Support enterprise-wide initiatives to improve data literacy, governance awareness, and responsible data use.
- Develop training content and educational resources on data governance, metadata, and quality practices.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Total Rewards package supporting physical, mental, and financial health.
- Competitive compensation based on performance, experience, skills, equity, market analysis, and location.
- Base salary with potential for annual bonuses or long-term incentive programs.
Compensation
Base pay plus potential for annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities.
About Sarah Cannon Research Institute
Sarah Cannon Research Institute (SCRI) is one of the world’s leading oncology research organizations conducting community-based clinical trials. Focused on advancing therapies for patients over the last three decades, SCRI is a leader in drug development. In 2022, SCRI formed a joint venture with former US Oncology Research to expand clinical trial access across the country. It has conducted more than 750 first-in-human clinical trials since its inception and contributed to pivotal research that has led to the majority of new cancer therapies approved by the FDA today. SCRI’s research network brings together more than 1,300 physicians who are actively enrolling patients into clinical trials at more than 250 locations in 24 states across the U.S. Please click here to learn more about our research offerings.
Total Rewards
We care about the well-being of the patients and communities we serve, and that starts with caring for our people. That’s why we have a Total Rewards package that includes comprehensive benefits to support physical, mental, and financial well-being. Our Total Rewards offerings serve the different needs of our diverse colleague population and ensure they are the healthiest versions of themselves. For more information regarding benefits through our parent company, McKesson, please click here. As part of Total Rewards, we are proud to offer a competitive compensation package. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered.
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Other
- We are unable to offer sponsorship for this position.
- McKesson Talent Advisors do not communicate with candidates via online chatrooms or using email accounts such as Gmail or Hotmail.
- McKesson job postings are posted on careers.mckesson.com.
- Equal opportunity employer: does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
We are unable to offer sponsorship for this position.
