Data Quality Specialist

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 66734
Ministry: Health
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full-time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Permanent
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: February 27, 2025
Classification: Systems Analyst Level 3

**Salary**:$3,199.50 to $4,237.85 bi-weekly ($83,507 - $110,608 year)

The Ministry of Health is building a more resilient and sustainable health care system that can support Albertans getting care when and where they need it, while responding to system-wide health challenges, improving health outcomes, and maintaining fiscal responsibility. The ministry supports Albertans’ health and well-being throughout their lives by protecting public health and promoting wellness; coordinating and delivering safe, person-centered, quality health services; health system planning and capital infrastructure planning; supporting innovative information management and technologies; regulating health care; and funding the health system.

For further information, visit the ministry website at

At Alberta Health, we are dedicated to improving the health of Albertans through innovation, modernization, and data-driven decision-making. As we embark on an exciting journey to modernize our data environment, we are looking for a skilled and dedicated Data Quality Specialist to join our team and play a crucial role in enhancing the quality of provincial health data used for research and decision-making.

Reporting to the Manager, Data Quality, the Data Quality Specialist will be responsible for leading high-complexity projects aimed at ensuring the quality and integrity of health data used across the health system. This includes developing strategies to improve and maintain the quality of data, leading data preparation initiatives for the corporate data repository, and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to enhance the value of our modernized data environment.

**Role Responsibilities**:
The job responsibilities include:
**Develop and Coordinate Business Strategies to Improve Data Quality**:

- Develop strategic approaches to enhance data quality for data generated by Alberta Health and external sources.
- Provide research and analytical support for information management projects.
- Advise on clinical vocabularies and terminologies and offer best practice guidance to ministry and Alberta Health services colleagues.
- Identify and resolve data quality issues, providing recommendations for corrective actions and tracking their impact.
- Prepare briefing notes, correspondence, and recommendations on data management issues.

**Lead High Complexity Projects for Prep and Data Enhancement**:

- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their analytical needs and create datasets that enable decision-making.
- Develop methodologies for transforming data to meet analysts’ requirements and ensure data quality.
- Efficiently use analytic tools to collect, develop, compare, and automate data creation for secondary use.
- Engage with the technical vendor team for long-term solutions to data transformation and enhancement.
- Ensure compliance with data governance and security policies.
- Participate in records management processes, including retention and archival as per department policies.
- Create high quality documentation to record the Data Prep process and usage considerations for data sets.

**Provide Subject Matter Expertise for Corporate Applications**:

- Respond to internal and external inquiries related to this dataset, including those from CIHI and AHS.
- Monitor upstream system changes, assess their impact, and coordinate with teams to plan and implement necessary changes.
- Project manage work with vendors to ensure timely and proper execution of enhancements and fixes.
- Collaborate with Privacy teams to maintain up-to-date Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) documentation.

**Support Information Management and IT Committees**:

- Represent the Ministry’s position on various committees as needed and provide valuable feedback.

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**APS Competencies**:
Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:
**Systems Thinking**:

- Develop strategic plans that integrate broader trends and anticipate their impact on the current situation.
- Consider political, social, and economic risks when making recommendations or decisions.
- Align actions and strategies with organizational goals and vision.
- Address behaviors that challenge progress, creating an environment conducive to growth and continuous improvement.

**Build Collaborative Environments**:

- Create and sustain an open communication environment, fostering sharing of expertise across teams.
- Initiate strategic communi