Job Description

We are seeking an accomplished and visionary Chief DataOfficer tolead our enterprise-wide data strategy, cloud datamodernization, governance, and AI-driven transformation initiatives. The idealcandidate will bring a strong blend of strategic leadership, technicalexpertise, and business acumen to build scalable, secure, and intelligent dataecosystems that drive measurable business outcomes across healthcareoperations.

The Chief Data Officer will partner closely with C-suiteexecutives and business leaders to establish a data-driven culture, modernizedata platforms, strengthen data governance, and leverage advanced analytics,AI/ML, and agentic AI capabilities to improve clinical and operationalefficiency, support value-based care, and enable better decision-making acrosspayer, provider, and health-tech environments.

Key Responsibilities

1. Enterprise Data Strategy & Leadership

• Defineand execute the enterprise-wide data strategy, roadmap, and operatingmodel aligned with organizational objectives.
  
• Leadand scale high-performing, globally distributed data engineering,architecture, analytics, and data science teams.
  
• ManageP&L responsibilities, resource planning, budgets, and strategicinvestments across data initiatives.
  
• Establishenterprise data governance, data quality, metadata management, master datamanagement, and data stewardship frameworks.
  

2. Healthcare Data & Regulatory Compliance

• Drivedata initiatives across healthcare ecosystems, including payer, provider,clinical operations, claims, and value-based care. Ensure compliance with HIPAAand HITECH regulations, healthcare data privacy, security, and applicableregulatory requirements.
  
• Leadthe design and implementation of scalable, secure, and high-performancecloud data platforms, including hands-on experience with Lakehousearchitecture .
  
• Drivecloud modernization, data platform migration, and optimization initiativesacross enterprise environments.
  

4. AI, Machine Learning & Agentic AI

• Defineand execute the AI/ML strategy, integrating advanced analytics and AIcapabilities into healthcare and business workflows.
  
• Establishresponsible AI practices covering model governance, explainability,monitoring, privacy, and risk management.
  

5. DevOps, DataOps & Operational Excellence

• DriveDevOps, DataOps, MLOps, and CI/CD practices to accelerate the deploymentand maintenance of data and AI solutions.
  

6. Business Value & Stakeholder Management

• Alignenterprise data initiatives with business priorities and measurableoutcomes.
  
• EstablishKPIs and executive dashboards to track data quality, platform performance,AI adoption, cost efficiency, and business value.
  

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Extensiveexperience in enterprise data leadership, data strategy, dataarchitecture, and large-scale digital transformation, preferably in a ChiefData Officer, VP of Data, Head of Data, or equivalent senior leadershiprole.
  
• Mandatoryhealthcare industry experience across payer, provider, health-tech,healthcare services, or related healthcare data ecosystems.
  
• Provenexperience building and leading high-performing, globally distributed dataand analytics organizations.
  
• Strongexpertise in cloud data platforms, Lakehouse architecture, dataengineering, enterprise integration, and cloud modernization.
  
• Demonstratedexperience taking AI/ML solutions from strategy and experimentationthrough production deployment.
  
• Practicalunderstanding of agentic AI, AI agents, reasoning models, and autonomousworkflow orchestration.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experiencedriving data transformation across large, complex, or multinationalhealthcare organizations.
  

Kanini Software Solutions, Inc. does not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, gender, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, veteran status, family status, disability status, or any other protected class. We support workplace diversity. If you have a disability, please let us know if there is anything we can do to improve the interview process for you; we’re happy to accommodate. Kanini Software Solutions, Inc., 25 Century Blvd., Ste. 602, Nashville, TN 37214.

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