Need Senior Business Subject Matter Expert - Data Director in Harrisburg, PA - Remote to Start

We have a Contract assignment available with our client in Harrisburg, PA. Position: Senior Business Subject Matter Expert 2 (SME2) - Data DirectorLocation: Harrisburg, PADuration: 6+ Months

• Create and implement strategies for achieving cutting-edge, advanced data analytics and visualization capabilities.
• Manage the data governance process, including implementation of strategies for effective standards, practices, and procedures throughout the agency.
• Ensure interoperability and/or data linking of multiple health data systems is sufficient for conducting performance measurement, program evaluation or population surveillance.
• Serve as liaison to other agencies to facilitate interagency data linkages.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for federal grants related to data modernization, develop and manage budgets and work plans as required.
• Review the impact of the agency’s IT infrastructure on data accessibility and coordinate with IT management to reduce barriers that inhibit data accessibility
• Work closely with the Project Management Office to ensure the department's data strategy and integration goals are achieved utilizing lean and agile practices

• Work with program areas to identify relevant data gaps for evaluation and evidence needs.
• Examine data needs within and across programs and identify areas for integration and means of improving efficiency.
• Identify proper points of contact, roles, and responsibilities related to implementation of agency-wide open data policies.
• Discuss and obtain agreements from programs on business rules for data collection and exchange.
• Help eliminate data territorialism across the agency’s program offices.
• Achieve alignment between epidemiologists, statisticians, and program areas on the agency’s data strategy.
• Identify and streamline appropriate access to the agency’s data assets.
• Develop and update data inventories with appropriate descriptive information about the datasets.
• Coordinate access to agency data, including defining tiered access or other restrictions that may be needed to protect against the risk of re-identification within the agency or from external users.
• Identify data partners and develop policies and procedures around public health data sharing and interoperability.
• Provide input to IT management on agency-wide data accessibility standards and requirements to be applied to all IT systems and procurements.
• Provide input to the IT management to identify, procure, and sustain appropriate systems and analytical tools for the agency.