Senior MDM Steward

lifestance; United States; On-site; USD 109,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

AD&D

Short and long-term disability

Life insurance

401k retirement savings with employer

Paid parental leave

Paid time off

Holiday pay

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

LifeStance Health seeks a Senior MDM Data Steward to act as the authoritative owner of patient and provider master data across the enterprise data platform. You will lead governance, quality, and identity management activities, ensuring EMPI and provider identifiers are accurate and trusted for analytics, reporting, and regulatory needs.

In partnership with data owners and governance leaders, you will drive data quality, implement survivorship rules, and guide complex match/merge decisions while

Qualifications

• Experience with master data management and identity resolution.
• Strong governance and data quality background.
• Ability to lead complex stewardship initiatives across systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise MDM stewardship operations and adjudicate complex identity resolution scenarios.
• Escalate and resolve patient identity management issues across source systems.
• Govern provider master data, ensuring accuracy and usability for reporting and regulatory needs.
• Collaborate with data owners and governance teams to improve data quality and processes.

Skills

Identity Resolution

Match Stewardship

Operational Leadership

Job description

At LifeStance Health, we strive to help individuals, families, and communities with their mental health needs. Everywhere. Every day. It's a lofty goal; we know. But we make it happen with the best team in mental healthcare.

Thank you for taking the time to explore a career with us. As the fastest growing mental health practice group in the country, now is the perfect time to join our team!

LifeStance Health Values

• Belonging: We cultivate a space where everyone can show up as their authentic self.
• Empathy: We seek out diverse perspectives and listen to learn without judgment.
• Courage: We are all accountable for doing the right thing - even when it's hard - because we know it's worth it.
• One Team: We realize our full potential when we work together towards our shared purpose.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• AD&D
• short and long-term disability
• life insurance
• 401k retirement savings with employer match
• paid parental leave
• paid time off
• holiday pay
• Employee Assistance Program

ROLE OVERVIEW

The Senior MDM Data Steward serves as the authoritative steward for patient and provider domains for master data across the Enterprise Data Platform, providing leadership for the operational governance, quality, and integrity of enterprise identity data. This role owns the stewardship framework supporting patient and provider master records and is accountable for ensuring that Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) patient global identifiers and MDM provider global identifiers within the Silver (conformed canonical) layer remain accurate, complete, traceable, and trusted for analytics, reporting, regulatory compliance, operational decision-making, and AI-driven use cases. Operating with a high degree of independence, the Senior MDM Data Steward leads identity resolution activities, establishes and maintains stewardship standards, and exercises judgment in the review and disposition of complex match, merge, and identity exception scenarios. The steward proactively identifies data quality risks, drives remediation efforts across source systems, oversees survivorship rule execution, and serves as the primary escalation point for patient and provider identity-related issues. In partnership with Business Data Owners, Data Governance leaders, and source-system stakeholders, this role influences stewardship practices, promotes data quality accountability, and drives continuous improvement of master data management processes. The Senior MDM Data Steward also owns the maintenance and ongoing governance of patient and provider business glossary terms, data quality rules and definitions, lineage context, stewardship procedures, issue records, and related governance artifacts within Snowflake Horizon Catalog. Through active monitoring, analysis, and stewardship leadership, the role ensures critical business and technical metadata remains current, actionable, and aligned with enterprise data governance standards and strategic data management objectives. Consistent with LifeStance's values, every member of the LifeStance team is expected to support each other and the mission, which may mean participating in projects and initiatives and performing functions and responsibilities not specifically outlined in this job description.

COMPENSATIO N:

$109,000 - $130,000/annually in addition to a competitive bonus plan

KEY RESPONSIBILITES

• Identity Resolution, Match Stewardship, and Operational Leadership (approximately 40%) Lead enterprise MDM stewardship operations by directing work queue activities, adjudicating complex identity resolution scenarios, resolving potential matches and duplicates, correcting improperly merged identities, and establishing consistent record governance practices for manually reviewed records.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for patient identity management issues, investigating overlays, duplicates, and cross-system identity conflicts originating from athenaOne, AdvancedMD, and other source systems; determine root causes, drive corrective actions, and recommend process improvements to reduce recurrence.
• Own the governance and integrity of the provider master data domain, establishing and enforcing standards fo
• Provide leadership for provider data quality and governance initiatives, ensuring the accuracy, consistency, and usability of provider practice, location, and organizational affiliation data supporting operational, analytical, credentialing, reimbursement, and regulatory reporting needs.