Data Management Manager (Remote)

Position Overview

The Manager, Data Management is responsible for leading a team of technical data analysts with deep healthcare experience across multiple domains who support the data curation of complex data products and data transformation. This role combines technical and analytical expertise with leadership and critical thinking to develop high quality data assets that drive data-driven decision making across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Leads the team in deep data exploration and analysis to gain domain expertise.
• Translates business rules into technical specifications to support data pipeline development.
• Manages data lifecycle processes including acquisition, storage, transformation, and archival, serving as the de-facto data product manager for the enterprise data warehouse.
• Oversees the Master Data Management process for several domains.
• Enforces data quality standards, metadata management, and data lineage tracking in partnership with Data Governance and Engineering teams.
• Ensures analytical outputs are accurate, timely, and aligned with stakeholder needs.
• Partners with IT and Data Governance teams to implement data stewardship and master data management practices.
• Manages industry and CareFirst-specific reference data for enterprise usage.
• Provides recommendations on business rules definition and data cleansing strategy.
• Supports data validation, balancing, and integrity maintenance.
• Supervises and mentors a team of data analysts and data stewards.
• Fosters a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and collaboration.
• Serves as a liaison between business units and technical teams to ensure alignment on data priorities.
• Translates and communicates complex data concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams including data engineering, data architecture, data product management, application teams, and enterprise architecture.
• Utilizes deep SQL and data analysis expertise to provide hands-on support.
• Applies an understanding of data principles, including data pipelines (batch and streaming), analytics, and overall usage patterns.
• Leverages coding fundamentals and design principles to build high quality data products and enterprise data assets.
• Develops metrics to measure and track data quality and balancing.

Required Qualifications

• Education: Bachelors or Masters degree in Data Science, Information Systems, Statistics, or a related field
• Experience Required: 5 years of experience in data analysis, data management, or related roles, with at least 1 year in a leadership capacity
• Strong proficiency in SQL, Python, R, or other data analysis languages
• Excellent communication, project management, and stakeholder engagement skills
• Exceptional problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Experience with data governance frameworks and tools (e.g., Collibra, Informatica, Alation)
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms (e.g., Azure, Snowflake)

Preferred Qualifications

• Certification in data management or analytics (e.g., CDMP, CAP, or equivalent)
• Experience in regulated industries (e.g., healthcare, finance, government)
• Knowledge of data privacy laws such as GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies
• Experience in the healthcare industry, with payor and Blue Cross Blue Shield exposure preferred

Benefits & Perks

• Salary: 120,320 - 223,344
• Comprehensive benefits package including various incentive programs and 401k contribution plans