Senior Data Governance Lead – Healthcare

Service New Brunswick and the New Brunswick Department of Health are seeking an experienced Data Governance Lead (BA3) to support the Provincial Clinical Information Solution (CIS) / Symbio Program.

The Symbio Program is a major healthcare transformation initiative focused on transitioning from multiple standalone hospital information systems to a unified standardized and integrated provincial Clinical Information Solution.

The Data Governance Lead will provide strategic leadership in establishing implementing and maturing a province-wide health data governance program that ensures healthcare data is trusted secure appropriately governed ethically used and effectively leveraged for public benefit.

The successful candidate will act as a key link between health policy privacy clinical operations analytics digital health platforms and data governance translating legislative and policy requirements into practical governance frameworks and operational practices.

• Lead the design development and implementation of a provincial healthcare data governance framework.
  

• Establish governance policies standards decision rights accountability models and operating practices.
  

• Define and implement data ownership stewardship and custodianship models.
  

• Develop data classification schemas and governance artefacts.
  

• Establish governance practices across the complete health data lifecycle.
  

• Align the data governance framework with the Symbio CIS transformation and enterprise analytics strategy.
  

• Provide strategic advice and recommendations regarding health data legislation regulations and policies.
  

• Translate provincial health information legislation including PHIPPA into practical governance policies and operational guidance.
  

• Support initiatives related to privacy consent information network designation and secondary use of health information.
  

• Develop policies standards and procedures supporting the responsible and ethical management of personal health information.
  

• Establish and support provincial data governance committees councils and working groups.
  

• Define roles and responsibilities for Data Owners Data Stewards and Data Custodians.
  

• Develop common data dictionaries standards and governance practices.
  

• Establish decision-making oversight and escalation mechanisms.
  

• Champion data quality standardization and interoperability across the healthcare system.
  

Develop governance models that enable secure compliant and ethical secondary use of health data for:

• Health system planning
  

• Population health management
  

• Performance management
  

• Analytics and reporting
  

• Research
  

• Policy development
  

Collaborate with analytics privacy and business teams to establish appropriate data access governance and usage controls.

• Collaborate with Chief Privacy Officers (CPOs) and Privacy departments.
  

• Support the development of Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs).
  

• Contribute to privacy policies procedures and governance frameworks.
  

• Lead or support development of a scalable Consent Management Framework.
  

• Develop appropriate Access Control frameworks for the Symbio Program and future provincial data assets.
  

• Ensure personal health information is appropriately protected and safeguarded.
  

Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders across the Department of Health SNB Regional Health Authorities and broader healthcare system.

Engage with:

• Healthcare executives
  

• Clinical leaders and physicians
  

• Privacy leaders and CPOs
  

• Business stakeholders
  

• Technical teams
  

• Operational teams
  

• Analytics teams
  

• Government and public-sector partners
  

The successful candidate must be able to facilitate complex discussions resolve competing perspectives build consensus and navigate politically sensitive healthcare environments.

• Lead planning execution and delivery of data governance and stewardship initiatives.
  

• Drive implementation of governance strategies policies standards and operating models.
  

• Coordinate cross-functional workstreams.
  

• Track deliverables and ensure high-quality outcomes.
  

• Prepare executive-level reports presentations recommendations and program materials.
  

• Support stakeholder alignment adoption and implementation of governance practices.
  

Candidates must clearly demonstrate all mandatory requirements in their resume and submission matrix.

University degree in one of the following:

• Healthcare Sciences
  

• Health Administration
  

• Business Administration
  

• Health Informatics
  

• Information Technology
  

OR an equivalent combination of applicable education and experience.

Minimum 10 years of demonstrated experience leading Canadian healthcare data governance strategy planning policy and implementation within a province or territory comparable to New Brunswick in size or complexity.

Experience must include:

• Healthcare data governance
  

• Data governance strategy
  

• Governance planning
  

• Governance policy development
  

• Governance implementation
  

• Provincial/territorial healthcare environments
  

• Large-scale health data initiatives
  

Minimum 10 years of progressive leadership experience within government or public healthcare environments focused on areas such as:

• Health system planning
  

• Provincial healthcare initiatives
  

• Data initiatives
  

• Digital health initiatives
  

• Large-scale public-sector transformation
  

Candidates must demonstrate progressively increasing leadership responsibilities.

Must be available to start on or about August 17 2026 or earlier if possible.

Maximum 2 candidates per vendor.

Minimum 10 years of experience in the public healthcare sector including government provincial agencies or acute-care environments leading initiatives involving:

• Data governance
  

• Data policy
  

• Health data strategy
  

• Digital health transformation
  

• Healthcare transformation
  

• Provincial health information initiatives
  

Minimum 10 years of progressive leadership experience in public-sector healthcare including:

• Direct people management
  

• Large-team leadership
  

• Organizational leadership
  

• Cross-functional leadership
  

• Large-scale healthcare program leadership
  

Minimum 8 years of experience developing digital health strategies policies and roadmaps at provincial/territorial scale particularly initiatives supporting the ethical secondary use of health data for:

• Health system planning
  

• Population health management
  

• Research
  

• Analytics
  

• Policy development
  

Minimum 10 years of stakeholder management experience involving diverse public- and private-sector stakeholders including:

• Clinical teams
  

• Business stakeholders
  

• Technical teams
  

• Operational teams
  

• Government stakeholders
  

• Healthcare leadership
  

Strong ability to facilitate discussions resolve competing perspectives and build consensus is required.

Minimum 8 years of experience engaging with healthcare executives clinical leaders and system stakeholders to drive system-level transformation.

Experience should demonstrate the ability to:

• Influence senior stakeholders
  

• Navigate complex healthcare environments
  

• Manage politically sensitive issues
  

• Build consensus
  

• Drive organizational/system transformation
  

• Communicate effectively with executive and clinical leadership
  

Minimum 5 years of experience collaborating with Privacy departments and/or Chief Privacy Officers (CPOs) on:

• Privacy governance
  

• Privacy policies and procedures
  

• Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs)
  

• Consent management
  

• Personal health information
  

• Ethical use of health information
  

• Access controls
  

• Health data privacy initiatives
  

Minimum 8 years of strong verbal and written communication experience including:

• Executive reporting
  

• Program-level reporting
  

• Executive presentations
  

• Facilitation
  

• Stakeholder presentations
  

• Governance documentation
  

• Program/project deliverables
  

• Stakeholder engagement
  

The successful candidate will contribute to or deliver:

• Provincial data governance framework covering data ownership governance stewardship and custodianship.
  

• Policies and procedures for the secure responsible and ethical management of personal health information.
  

• Support for modernization of health information legislation including PHIPPA.
  

• Provincial data standards policies and procedures.
  

• Health data classification schema including public internal and confidential categories.
  

• Symbio Data Strategy aligned with the Symbio Business Intelligence strategy.
  

• Provincial data strategy aligned with the provincial BI strategy.
  

• Scalable Consent Management Framework for the Symbio Program.
  

• Access Control Framework supporting the Symbio Program and future provincial data assets and systems.
  

The ideal candidate is a senior healthcare data governance leader/executive with extensive Canadian public-sector experience and a strong record of leading provincial-scale healthcare transformation.

The strongest candidates will typically have:

• 10 years of healthcare data governance leadership
  

• 10 years of government/public-sector healthcare leadership
  

• Provincial/territorial healthcare transformation experience
  

• Digital health strategy and roadmap development
  

• Enterprise/provincial data governance framework development
  

• Data ownership stewardship and custodianship expertise
  

• Health data policy and standards experience
  

• PHIPPA or comparable Canadian health-information legislation experience
  

• Privacy and CPO collaboration
  

• PIA and consent-management experience
  

• Data classification and access-control expertise
  

• Large-team people leadership
  

• Executive and clinical stakeholder engagement
  

• Strong facilitation and presentation skills
  

• Experience enabling ethical secondary use of healthcare data
  

This is a remote position within Canada.

The successful candidate must be able to travel to New Brunswick at least once per month throughout the project.

Travel time and costs from the candidates remote location to New Brunswick are the vendors responsibility. Authorized travel meals and accommodation while in New Brunswick will be reimbursed according to applicable Province of New Brunswick travel rates.