Clinical Data Steward (Onsite)

About the Role

Our client is seeking a Senior Clinical Data Steward to play a critical role in advancing enterprise-wide clinical data quality, governance, and standardization. This position sits within the Health Information Technology (HIT) organization and serves as a strategic partner to clinical, operational, analytics, and technology teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise clinical data governance initiatives and serve as the subject matter expert for clinical data quality and stewardship.
• Develop, implement, and maintain clinical data standards, policies, governance frameworks, and best practices.
• Establish and manage processes that ensure data integrity, consistency, usability, and regulatory compliance.
• Participate in enterprise data governance councils and cross-functional governance committees.
• Analyze clinical datasets to identify data quality issues, anomalies, inconsistencies, and improvement opportunities.
• Develop quality metrics, KPIs, scorecards, and monitoring processes to measure data governance effectiveness.
• Partner with analytics and reporting teams to improve the reliability and trustworthiness of enterprise healthcare data.
• Support organizational initiatives involving population health, quality reporting, operational analytics, and value-based care.
• Maintain and promote the accurate use of healthcare data standards and terminology, including:
  • SNOMED CT
  • ICD-10
  • CPT
  • HCPCS
  • LOINC
  • RxNorm
  • HL7/FHIR
• Ensure clinical terminology alignment across systems, reporting platforms, and workflows.
• Act as the bridge between clinical operations, provider teams, business stakeholders, and technical teams.
• Collaborate with Application Development, Clinical Informatics, Provider Services, Revenue Cycle, and Analytics teams to resolve data challenges and improve outcomes.
• Translate complex business and clinical requirements into sustainable data governance solutions.
• Foster strong partnerships across the organization to drive adoption of data governance standards.
• Ensure compliance with HIPAA, healthcare data privacy regulations, and organizational policies.
• Support audit readiness and data governance oversight initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Health Information Management, Clinical Informatics, Nursing, Healthcare Administration, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience working with clinical data, healthcare data management, data governance, or clinical informatics within a healthcare organization.
• Proven experience performing data quality analysis, data validation, and root-cause analysis.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.

Skills

• Strong understanding of:
  • Clinical Data Governance
  • Data Stewardship
  • Data Quality Management
  • Master Data Management (MDM)
  • Healthcare Data Standards
• Experience with Electronic Health Record (EHR) platforms such as:
  • Epic
  • Cerner
  • Meditech
  • Other enterprise healthcare systems
• Working knowledge of:
  • SNOMED CT
  • ICD-10
  • CPT
  • HCPCS
  • HL7/FHIR

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Clinical Informatics within a hospital, health system, or integrated delivery network (IDN).
• Experience supporting provider, clinical operations, population health, or revenue cycle initiatives.
• Experience supporting healthcare analytics, quality improvement, or regulatory reporting initiatives.
• Professional certifications such as (a plus):
  • CHDA (Certified Health Data Analyst)
  • RHIA (Registered Health Information Administrator)
  • RHIT (Registered Health Information Technician)
  • Clinical Informatics certifications

Location: Birmingham, AL (Hybrid)
Position Status: Contract to Hire