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Chief Data Officer
- Position
- Chief Data Officer (may also be titled Chief Data Architect)
- Reports to
- Chief Executive Officer
- Status
- Full-time employee
- Direct reports
- NIH data team, plus external development partners
- Location
- West Des Moines, Iowa (on-site or hybrid); some travel
- Compensation
- Base salary range: $190,000 - $240,000, commensurate with experience, qualifications, and scope
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 environment.
- 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 decade.
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Send your résumé and a brief cover letter to hr@nationalintegrativehealth.com with the subject line “Chief Data Officer Application”. Please do not include Social Security numbers, medical information, dates of birth, financial information, or other highly sensitive personal information in your application materials.