VP, Data Platform

How Youll Make An Impact

At Strive Health patients come first. Were on a mission to transform chronic conditions by identifying risk earlier coordinating thoughtful care and supporting people through every stage of their health journey.

Our work reduces emergency visits improves outcomes and helps patients live fuller lives. Youll work alongside passionate Strivers who care deeply about making an impact show up for one another as One Team and find ways to elevate the everyday.

If youre looking for meaningful work where your contributions truly matter youll feel right at home at Strive!

Benefits & Perks

• Hybrid-Remote Flexibility Work from home while fulfilling in-person needs at the office clinic or patient home visits.
• Comprehensive Benefits Medical dental and vision insurance employee assistance programs employer-paid and voluntary life and disability insurance plus health and flexible spending accounts.
• Financial & Retirement Support Competitive compensation with a performance-based bonus program 401k with employer match and financial wellness resources.
• Time Off & Leave Paid holidays vacation time sick time and paid birthgiving bonding sabbatical and living donor leaves.
• Wellness & Growth Family forming services through Maven Maternity at no cost and physical wellness perks mental health support and an annual professional development stipend.

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What Youll Do

We are seeking a Vice President of Data Platform to lead Strives enterprise data platform data architecture and data governance capabilities. This leader will carry end-to-end accountability for the design management reliability and evolution of Strives data warehouse and for ensuring that high-quality well-governed data is available to the teams that depend on it.

The role will oversee the ingestion and hydration of the warehouse from a broad range of inbound data streams including health plan (claims revenue benchmarks adjustment risk adjustment files) clinical eligibility pharmacy laboratory Admit Discharge Transfer (ADT) partner and operational data. The Vice President of Data will ensure that data is transformed into trusted reusable and well-documented data products for Digital Product Software Engineering Data Science Analytics Medical Economics Actuarial Finance Clinical and Operations teams.

As a key member of the Technology leadership team this leader will help establish data as a durable enterprise capability and a strategic foundation for clinical excellence operational performance artificial intelligence (AI) and value-based care.

We are looking for a candidate with strong leadership judgment an entrepreneurial spirit and excitement for building and scaling a trusted enterprise data capability in a complex mission-driven health-tech environment.

Essential Functions

• Own the vision strategy architecture operating model and long-term roadmap for Strives enterprise data warehouse and related data platform capabilities.
• Carry end-to-end accountability for the routine operation production support reliability and maintenance of warehouse ingestion and hydration across claims clinical eligibility pharmacy laboratory ADT partner electronic health record (EHR) financial and operational data sources.
• Establish scalable ingestion transformation orchestration and data-modeling patterns-including batch incremental change-data-capture and streaming approaches-with appropriate attention to latency cost resiliency recoverability and supportability.
• Build and operationalize scalable processes that enable Analytics Data Science and Medical Economics teams to develop trusted metrics reporting and insights in the data warehouse.
• Establish optimization and efficiency practices that keep the warehouse running quickly and reliably for analytical workloads and implement governance to identify retire and document outdated or redundant metrics.
• Lead Strives standard data governance initiatives and ensure that all teams follow consistent protocols across the warehouse.
• Design and operate a production observability and alerting model for ingestion transformation warehouse loads dependencies and downstream data products covering freshness completeness volume schema changes accuracy reconciliation latency availability pipeline health and downstream impact to ensure data quality.
• Own failed or degraded data-processing incidents from triage through verified closure including severity assessment alert routing escalation stakeholder communication recovery reruns reprocessing root-cause analysis corrective actions and improvements to mean time to detect and mean time to resolve.
• Establish and lead a durable data governance and quality-management process including ownership stewardship data contracts definitions lineage access retention prioritization automated validation reconciliation anomaly detection and issue resolution.
• Partner with Digital Product Software Engineering Data Science Analytics Medical Economics and Actuarial teams to support reliable downstream consumption and production deployment monitoring and lifecycle management of analytical and machine-learning models.
• Partner with Security Privacy Legal Compliance Clinical and Technology leadership to make governed data available through reliable interfaces application programming interfaces (APIs) events and other appropriate consumption patterns while protecting Protected Health Information (PHI).
• Lead remediation of recurring data-quality issues and ingestion technical debt and define operating metrics for freshness completeness accuracy availability alert quality incident recurrence service-level adherence and request fulfillment.
• Recruit develop and retain the data organization; establish the right mix of data engineers data architects analytics engineers evaluate and manage vendors and consultants; and communicate data risks tradeoffs priorities and production health clearly to executive and cross-functional stakeholders.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10 years of professional experience in data engineering data architecture analytics engineering or a related discipline including experience building and operating enterprise-scale data platforms.
• 8 years of experience leading technical data teams including responsibility for hiring developing managing and aligning data engineers architects analytics engineers or related technical professionals.
• 7 years of experience designing and evolving a data warehouse lakehouse or comparable enterprise data platform serving multiple technical analytical and business stakeholders.
• 5 years of experience owning production operations for data pipelines and warehouse workloads including monitoring observability alert triage escalation recovery reprocessing incident response and preventive remediation.
• 5 years of experience integrating complex and heterogeneous data sources including structured semi-structured transactional clinical claims or partner data.
• 5 years of experience building governed data models datasets marts semantic layers or other reusable data products for downstream technical and business consumers.
• 3 years of experience establishing or operating data governance and data-quality practices including ownership stewardship lineage documentation data definitions access controls and issue management.
• 5 years of experience partnering with Digital Product Software Engineering Data Science Analytics Finance Actuarial Medical Economics Clinical or Operations teams to deliver trusted data products reporting measures or model inputs.
• Internet Connectivity - Min Speeds: 3.8Mbps/3.0Mbps (up/down): Latency <60 ms.
• Ability to travel and be on-site to meet business needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare healthtech health plans provider organizations value-based care or another regulated environment where data quality privacy and auditability materially affect business and clinical outcomes.
• Experience with healthcare data and interoperability standards including medical and pharmacy claims clinical records lab and ADT data FHIRHL7) eligibility utilization quality or risk-adjustment data.
• Experience working with modern cloud data platforms relational and distributed data stores ELT/ETL) frameworks orchestration tools APIs event streams and change-data-capture patterns.
• Experience improving data freshness through selective use of near-real-time or streaming architectures where the business value justifies the added complexity and cost.
• Experience supporting actuarial medical economics risk adjustment quality financial or population-health models and reporting.
• Experience supporting machine-learning or AI systems through reliable feature pipelines training datasets inference inputs monitoring and data lineage.
• Experience leading data-platform modernization technical-debt reduction source-system consolidation or migration from fragmented legacy data environments.

About You

• You communicate clearly and credibly with technical clinical operational and executive audiences especially when explaining data risk tradeoffs incidents and decisions.
• You bring high integrity dependability sound judgment and a strong sense of urgency accountability and results orientation.
• You are action-oriented and pragmatic with the ability to translate broad data strategy into achievable steps operating mechanisms and measurable improvements while maintaining appropriate review discipline.
• You are committed to building a data culture that is rigorous service-oriented transparent and focused on making high-quality data easier to use responsibly.
• You meet Strives internet connectivity requirement: minimum speeds of 3.8 Mbps download and 3.0 Mbps upload with latency below 60 milliseconds.
• You are able to travel and work onsite as needed to meet business requirements and connect with stakeholders serve patients and attend Strive-sponsored team events.

Annual Salary Range: $173000 - $231000. This position is also eligible for a target annual bonus of 30%

Final compensation will be determined based on location experience and qualifications.

Strive Health is an equal opportunity employer and drug free workplace. At this time Strive Health is unable to provide work visa sponsorship. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Please apply even if you feel you do not meet all qualifications. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application interviewing completing any pre-employment testing or otherwise participating in the employee selection process please direct your inquiries to

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