Chief Data Officer Full Time

National Integrative Health; West Des Moines (IA); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

National Integrative Health is seeking a Chief Data Officer to own the design, construction, and governance of the enterprise data environment. You will lead the data team and coordinate with external development partners in an on-site or hybrid role in West Des Moines, IA.

The position requires deep experience across healthcare data, privacy and security, and the ability to translate technical constraints into executive decisions while growing the function with the business.

Qualifications

• Ten or more years in data architecture, data engineering, or data leadership.
• Knowledge of HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules and HITECH.
• Healthcare data experience across pharmacy, medical claims, eligibility, clinical, or revenue cycle.
• Experience building data environments from early or fragmented states.
• Experience directly managing and developing a technical team.
• Experience managing external development partners and contracting.
• Ability to communicate with an executive team in business terms.

Responsibilities

• Define and own NIH’s target-state data architecture and data governance.
• Establish a roadmap and standards for data modeling, metadata, and access.
• Serve as HIPAA security official and coordinate privacy policies.
• Lead data due diligence for acquisitions and integration planning.
• Directly manage NIH’s data team and external partners.
• Set requirements, testing, and release standards for data work.

Skills

Data architecture

Data engineering

Data leadership

HIPAA knowledge

Executive communication

Vendor management

Team building

Education

Advanced degree in health informatics or related field

CISSP / HCISPP or related certification

Tools

Azure data services

Power BI

Job description

NATIONAL INTEGRATIVE HEALTH | CHIEF DATA OFFICER PAGE 1

Chief Data Officer

National Integrative Health, Inc. · West Des Moines, Iowa

Chief Data Officer (may also be titled Chief Data Architect) Chief Executive Officer Full-time employee NIH data team, plus external development partners West Des Moines, Iowa (on-site or hybrid); some travel

Base salary range: $190,000 - $240,000, commensurate with experience, qualifications, and scope

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Position Summary

National Integrative Health is building an integrated healthcare services organization through both organic growth and acquisition. The Chief Data Officer will own the design, construction, and governance of the company’s enterprise data environment, will directly manage NIH’s data team, and will serve as the accountable data leader on the executive team.

This is a build role. NIH’s data environment is early-stage: source systems are fragmented across the pharmacy, MSO/Patient Services, and finance functions, third-party platforms are in active implementation, and acquired entities arrive with their own systems and standards. The successful candidate will be someone who is comfortable establishing architecture, standards, and controls where none currently exist, and who can do so while the business continues to operate and grow.

Key Responsibilities

Data architecture and strategy

• Define and own NIH’s target-state data architecture, including source systems, integration patterns, data warehouse or lakehouse design, and master data management.
• Establish the roadmap that moves NIH from its current state to that target state, sequenced against business priorities.
• Set standards for data modeling, naming, documentation, and metadata across the organization.

Governance, privacy, and security

• Serve as NIH’s designated HIPAA security official under 45 C.F.R. § 164.308(a)(2), and coordinate with the privacy official on policies governing protected health information.
• Develop and implement data governance policies, including access management, data classification, retention, minimum necessary standards, and audit logging.
• Own the risk analysis and risk management processes required under the HIPAA Security Rule, and maintain the associated documentation.
• Oversee business associate relationships from a data standpoint, including vendor security review and the technical requirements flowed down through business associate agreements.

Integration and acquisitions

• Lead data due diligence on acquisition targets and own the integration plan for acquired entities’ systems and data.
• Establish the integration standards that govern how partner, payer, pharmacy, and platform data enters the NIH environment.

Organization and delivery

• Directly manage NIH’s data team, including hiring, performance management, professional development, and workload prioritization.
• Grow the function as the business scales, defining the roles and skills the team needs and building the case for additional headcount.
• Manage external development partners and vendors supporting the data environment.
• Set and enforce requirements definition, testing, and release standards for data and platform work.
• Serve as the data voice on the executive team, translating business strategy into data investment decisions and reporting progress to the CEO.

First Twelve Months

• Complete an inventory of NIH data sources, flows, and systems that create, receive, maintain, or transmit protected health information.
• Complete a HIPAA Security Rule risk analysis and deliver a prioritized remediation plan.
• Publish the target-state architecture and a sequenced roadmap approved by the executive team.
• Establish data governance policies and an operating cadence for access, change, and release management.
• Deliver an integration plan and standards package applicable to acquisitions.

Required Qualifications

• Ten or more years in data architecture, data engineering, or data leadership, including at least three years with accountability for an enterprise data
• Direct experience with protected health information and demonstrated working knowledge of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules and HITECH.
• Healthcare data experience across two or more of the following: pharmacy, medical claims, eligibility and enrollment, clinical, or revenue cycle.
• Demonstrated experience building a data environment from an early or fragmented state, rather than only operating a mature one.
• Demonstrated experience directly managing and developing a technical team, including hiring and performance management.
• Experience managing external development partners and holding them to defined requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Ability to communicate credibly with an executive team and to translate technical constraints into business terms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience integrating data environments following acquisitions.
• Familiarity with pharmacy procurement, 340B, or specialty pharmacy data.
• Experience in a Microsoft data stack environment, including Azure data services and Power BI.
• Advanced degree in health informatics, information systems, computer science, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of credentials and experience.
• Relevant certification such as CISSP, HCISPP, CHPS, or a comparable healthcare privacy or security credential.

Why This Role

This is an opportunity to define an enterprise data function from the ground up, with executive sponsorship and a clear mandate, at a company in an active growth and acquisition phase. The data environment this person designs will shape how NIH operates for the next