Vice President of Data Platform

Strive Health; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 260,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental & Vision plans

401k with employer match

Hybrid-Remote work

Paid time off & holidays

Job summary

Strive Health is seeking a Vice President of Data Platform to lead Strive’s enterprise data platform, data architecture, and governance capabilities. You will own the data warehouse design, ingestion, and reliability, ensuring high-quality, well-governed data for cross-functional teams including Digital Product, Data Science, Analytics, and Finance.

You will shape the long-term roadmap, establish scalable ingestion patterns, and drive data governance, security, and operational excellence in a

Qualifications

• 5+ years owning production operations for data pipelines and warehouse workloads.
• 10+ years in data engineering, architecture, or related discipline.
• Experience building governed data models and reusable data products.
• Experience leading data-platform modernization and debt reduction.
• Healthcare data experience or regulated environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision, strategy, architecture, operating model, and long-term roadmap for the data platform.
• Lead ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and data-modeling across multiple data sources.
• Establish data governance, lineage, access controls, and quality management.
• Partner with product, engineering, analytics, actuarial, and clinical teams to deploy data products.
• Develop observability, alerting, and incident response for data pipelines and warehouse.

Skills

Data governance

Data architecture

Data pipelines

Leadership

Cloud platforms

ETL/ELT

Stakeholder management

Observability & incident response

Tools

Cloud data platforms

ELT/ETL frameworks

Orchestration tools

APIs & streaming

Job description

• We are seeking a Vice President of Data Platform to lead Strive’s 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 Strive’s 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
• Own the vision, strategy, architecture, operating model, and long-term roadmap for Strive’s 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 Strive’s 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

Benefits

• Health and Well-Being: We care about your physical well-being, so your insurance starts the day you join Strive.
• Medical, dental & Vision: We offer a variety of medical (HMO, PPO and HDHP) plans through United Healthcare and Kaiser, two dental plans and one comprehensive vision plan.
• Life & Supplemental Insurance: Strivers are provided 100% employer-paid life insurance, short-term disability and long-term disability coverage as of your start date. Additional supplemental insurance, including accident, life and critical illness, are available.
• Flexibility and Time Off: Transformational work takes high performance. We believe Strivers perform better when they are fully charged, so we provide flexibility to support your inner well-being.
• Hybrid-Remote Work: Our hybrid-remote approach ensures team members can work from home while collaborating in person when needed. Strive provides a full technology package and monthly technology reimbursement.
• Vacation Time: Full-time, regularly scheduled Strivers can use vacation time for travel, relaxation or volunteering.
• Sick Time: Life happens, so we provide up to two weeks of paid time off annually for illness, medical care, caregiving responsibilities and other types of emergencies.
• Well-Being Days: Annual Strive-wide well-being days off provide Strivers the opportunity to focus solely on their well-being.
• Paid Holidays: Annual Strive-wide holidays allow all Strivers to disconnect together to reflect and celebrate.
• Paid Leave: Our 12 weeks of paid birth giving leave and four weeks of paid bonding leave start day one. We provide a four-week paid sabbatical after five years to return recharged. In alignment to our mission, we offer a paid living donor leave if any Strivers choose to become a living donor.
• Retirement and Financial Planning: Strive provides a 401k with an employer match, access to the Best-Interest Advice program and our financial planning tools, Empower and SoFi.
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs): Strive is dedicated to promoting a sense of community and at work. We currently offer Parents/Guardians/Caregivers, Strive Forward (LGBTQIA+), Underrepresented Minorities and Women & Allies ERGs.
• Mental Health Platforms & Employee Assistance Programs: Strivers have access to Headspace Care through Kaiser, Calm Health through both medical carriers and a full-service Employee Assistance Program.
• Family-Forming SUpport: Strive partners with Maven Maternity through UHC. Strivers enrolled in UHC gain access to Maven’s virtual platform designed to support women’s and family health. Maven provides personalized, on-demand guidance for navigating family-building, pregnancy, postpartum and parenting journeys.

Strivers enrolled in Kaiser will still have access to their Birth-Giving Support Program that includes prenatal care, labor and delivery support, postpartum and newborn care and additional services.

• Professional Development: Strive supports growth through annual professional development reimbursements, paid time off for clinical licensure requirements and tuition discounts through CSU Global.
• Employee Discounts: Strive offers Fetch for pet insurance since we know that your pets are part of your family. Strivers also enjoy PerkSpot for product discounts such as gyms and daycares near you, electronics, hotels and more. The best part? PerkSpot is customizable to your interests.

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 remediation5+ 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 inputs10+ years of professional experience in data engineering, data architecture, analytics engineering, or a related discipline, including experience building and operating enterprise-scale data platformsInternet Connectivity - Min Speeds: 3.8Mbps/3.0Mbps (up/down): Latency <60 ms7+ years of experience designing and evolving a data warehouse, lakehouse, or comparable enterprise data platform serving multiple technical, analytical, and business stakeholders3+ years of experience establishing or operating data governance and data-quality practices, including ownership, stewardship, lineage, documentation, data definitions, access controls, and issue management5+ years of experience integrating complex and heterogeneous data sources, including structured, semi-structured, transactional, clinical, claims, or partner dataAbility to travel and be on-site to meet business needs8+ years of experience leading technical data teams, including responsibility for hiring, developing, managing, and aligning data engineers, architects, analytics engineers, or related technical professionals5+ years of experience building governed data models, datasets, marts, semantic layers, or other reusable data products for downstream technical and business consumersYou are committed to building a data culture that is rigorous, service-oriented, transparent, and focused on making high-quality data easier to use responsiblyYou bring high integrity, dependability, sound judgment, and a strong sense of urgency, accountability, and results orientationYou are able to travel and work onsite as needed to meet business requirements and connect with stakeholders, serve patients, and attend Strive-sponsored team eventsYou meet Strive’s internet connectivity requirement: minimum speeds of 3.8 Mbps download and 3.0 Mbps upload, with latency below 60 millisecondsYou communicate clearly and credibly with technical, clinical, operational, and executive audiences, especially when explaining data risk, tradeoffs, incidents, and decisionsYou 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 disciplineExperience 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 outcomesExperience with healthcare data and interoperability standards, including medical and pharmacy claims, clinical records, lab and ADT data, FHIR,HL7), eligibility, utilization, quality, or risk-adjustment dataExperience improving data freshness through selective use of near-real-time or streaming architectures where the business value justifies the added complexity and costExperience working with modern cloud data platforms, relational and distributed data stores, ELT/ETL) frameworks, orchestration tools, APIs, event streams, and change-data-capture patternsExperience supporting actuarial, medical economics, risk adjustment, quality, financial, or population-health models and reportingExperience supporting machine-learning or AI systems through reliable feature pipelines, training datasets, inference inputs, monitoring, and data lineageExperience leading data-platform modernization, technical-debt reduction, source-system consolidation, or migration from fragmented legacy data environments