Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cotiviti is seeking a Data Governance and Analytics Architecture Director to lead data governance, analytics architecture, and AI/ML best practices across its Health Enablement Analytics organization. The role provides advisory leadership, technical guidance, architecture standards, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure scalable, sustainable, and governed analytics and innovation solutions.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the development of data governance standards, and best practices across analytics and reporting
- Provide guidance on data quality, consistency, and appropriate use of enterprise data assets
- Support the standardization of data models, business metrics, and reusable data assets to improve consistency and efficiency
- Implement governance frameworks, ensuring policies are embedded into day-to-day data and analytics workflows
- Establish clear data stewardship accountability across business and analytics teams
- Oversee data quality processes, metadata management, and governance monitoring to ensure sustained data integrity
- Serve as the primary point of contact for Information Governance, data risk, and compliance alignment
- Drive standardization of data assets to reduce fragmentation and enable consistent cross-domain insights
- Provide subject matter expertise on analytics architecture across BI, reporting, and advanced analytics
- Partner with teams to ensure solutions are aligned with enterprise data platforms and long‑term strategy
- Recommend architectural approaches that support scalability, interoperability, and reuse
- Serve as a technical SME contributing to AI/ML standards and best practices
- Provide guidance to ensure analytic and AI solutions are designed for scalability and sustainability
- Advise on approaches to monitor performance, manage technical debt, and identify architectural risk
- Assess technical feasibility of innovation and analytics initiatives and provide input on viable solution approaches
- Consult on solution design to support production readiness and scalability
- Identify constraints in data or architecture and propose practical workarounds to enable business outcomes
- Define guardrails that enable faster decision-making and reduce execution friction
- Serve as a consultative technical partner to Innovation, Data Science, Reporting, and broader enterprise teams
- Translate business and analytics requirements into technical solutions and executable designs
- Provide input on feasibility, architecture, and standards to support solution development
- Collaborate across teams to ensure analytics solutions are aligned with enterprise direction while meeting business needs
- Contribute technical expertise to vendor evaluations and platform decisions as needed
- Hire, develop, coach, lead and retain top-tier talent, with a focus on building and improving a team and culture that is able to assist in employing best in class practices to support and drive high levels of internal and external customer satisfaction
- Complete all responsibilities as outlined in the annual performance review and/or goal setting
- Complete all special projects and other duties as assigned
- Must be able to perform duties with or without reasonable accommodation
Skills
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field required
- 10+ years of experience in data governance, data architecture, data engineering, and analytics roles
- 5+ years of leadership experience driving data governance, data architecture, and analytics platform initiatives at enterprise scale
- Proven ability to define and implement data governance frameworks, standards, and data quality processes
- Strong expertise in: data modeling, data warehousing and lakehouse architectures, cloud-based analytics platforms and modern data ecosystems
- Experience enabling analytics and AI/ML solutions to scale from prototype to production deployment
- Strong understanding of BI platforms, ETL/ELT frameworks, and data lifecycle management
- Experience working across analytics, product, engineering, and innovation teams in complex environments
- Ability to translate business and analytics priorities into scalable technical architecture and design
- Strong leadership, stakeholder management, and decision-making capabilities
- Able to work independently in a fast-paced environment as part of a distributed team with effective communication and collaboration skills
- Strong written and oral communication The ability to communicate effectively (clear, concise, and professionally) at all levels within Cotiviti
- Demonstrated teamwork, leadership, and project management discipline
- Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally to drive business outcomes
- Communicating with others to exchange information
- Assessing the accuracy, neatness and thoroughness of the work assigned
- Critical thinker and problem solver with strong analytic modeling and technical skills
- Must be able to provide high-speed internet access / connectivity and office setup and maintenance
- Must be able to provide a dedicated, secure work area
- Remaining in a stationary position, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods
- Repeating motions that may include the wrists, hands and/or fingers
- Roven ability to handle stressful situations, multiple tasks, and deadline Enterprise project management methods and process management experience preferred
Benefits
- Discretionary bonus consideration
- Medical insurance coverage
- Dental insurance coverage
- Vision insurance coverage
- Disability insurance coverage
- Life insurance coverage
- 401(k) savings plans
- Paid family leave
- 9 paid holidays per year
- 17-27 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year, depending on specific level and length of service with Cotiviti
- Remote work arrangement
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