VP, Data Platform

strivehealth; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid-Remote Flexibility

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401k with employer match

Job summary

Strive Health is seeking a Vice President of Data Platform to lead Strive's enterprise data platform, data architecture, and data governance. This leader will own end-to-end design, management, and reliability of the data warehouse, ensuring high-quality, well-governed data for multiple teams across the organization.

The role requires strong leadership, entrepreneurial spirit, and a track record scaling data capabilities in a health-tech environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision, strategy, architecture, and roadmap for Strive's data platform.
• Ensure reliable ingestion, transformation, and data sources across claims, clinical, eligibility, pharmacy, and operational data.
• Implement scalable data-modeling patterns and governance practices.

Skills

Data architecture

Leadership

Data governance

ETL/ELT

SQL/Analytics

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