VP, Data Platform

strivehealth; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid-Remote Flexibility

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401k with employer match

Paid holidays and leave

Professional development stipend

Job summary

Strive Health is seeking a Vice President of Data Platform to lead our enterprise data warehouse, data architecture, and governance. You will oversee ingestion from claims, clinical, eligibility, pharmacy, and operational data to deliver trusted, well-documented data products for multiple teams.

As a Technology leadership team member, you will shape data strategy, ensure reliability, and enable Analytics, Data Science, and Medical Economics to extract insights at scale.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership in data platforms and teams.
• Strong experience delivering enterprise data solutions.
• Excellent communication with cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision, strategy, architecture, operating model, and long-term roadmap for Strive's data warehouse and platform.
• Accountable for routine operation, production support, reliability, and maintenance of data ingestion across multiple sources.
• Establish scalable ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and data-modeling patterns with attention to latency and cost.
• Build scalable processes enabling Analytics, Data Science, and Medical Economics to develop trusted metrics and insights.
• Lead optimization and governance to keep the warehouse fast and well-documented.
• Oversee data governance initiatives and ensure consistent protocols across the warehouse.
• Design and operate a production observability and alerting model for data pipelines and products.
• Own incident triage, root-cause analysis, and improvements to MTTR.
• Establish a durable data governance and quality-management process across ownership and lineage.

Skills

Leadership

Data governance

Data architecture

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Job description

How You'll Make An Impact

At Strive Health, patients come first. We're 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. You'll 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 you're looking for meaningful work where your contributions truly matter, you'll 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 You'll Do

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.

Essential Functions

• 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, autom