We Are Hiring

Ascension Health is looking for a leader who is passionate about data and seeks to put his/her creative mind to the test. The Chief Data Officer will not only help structure and analyze large datasets, but also focus on transforming Ascension into an analysis-based, decision-making organization. This executive will lead a team responsible for working with clinical data, claims data, financial data, operational data, facilities data and complex consumer/patient interactions. The Chief Data Officer will be expected to deliver new insights for the organization, making connections between existing data sets and innovative external data to help patients thrive. The Chief Data Officer will bring an engineering mindset to data and analytical methods, in order to build solutions that are highly scalable, flexible and unique to Ascension’s transformative and digital goals.

What You Will Do

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES  

• Lead a team to deliver on a long-term strategic vision for data-driven business capabilities.  
• Develop a prioritized multi-year road map to enhance and create new data solutions and drive measurable competitive advantage in the marketplace. Determine the investments necessary in terms of people and technology to achieve these objectives.  
• Define and implement policies, processes and procedures for the governance and management of data, including data capture, storage, data architecture, security, integration, reporting, business intelligence, analytics and data science.  
• Deliver the foundational technology platform and service layers for reporting, analytics, data science and AI, leveraging reusable, scalable architectures to enable ongoing modernization efforts.  
• Recruit, motivate, develop and retain a high-performance, cross-functional data team. Build multiple successors and a team that meets the business needs of the future.  
• Embrace leading-edge architectural foundations across data, applications and infrastructure, including the use of cloud technologies (GCP, AWS, Azure, etc.).
• Partner with the Chief Data Science Officer and provide input on the analytics strategy of the organization by staying up to date on and sharing the latest analytics innovations.  
• Ensure that data pipelines are scalable, repeatable, secure and can serve multiple stakeholders within the company.  
• Translate complex functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture, design and high performing software.  
• Implement security and recovery tools and techniques as required.  
• Ensure all automated processes preserve data integrity by managing the alignment of data availability and integration processes. 

What You Will Need

Education:

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Master's degree preferred.

Work Experience:

• 7 years of experience required.
• 10 years of experience preferred.
• 5 years of leadership or management experience preferred.

Additional Preferences

Expert knowledge of data modeling and understanding of different data structures Capability to architect highly scalable distributed systems, using different open source tools. Demonstrated experience with object-oriented design, coding and testing patterns, as well as experience in engineering software platforms and large-scale data. Experience using big-data batch and streaming tools.

Experience in operationalizing enterprise-wide data governance and data quality

Depth in emerging data-enabling technologies and methods

Including the development of strategies to operate in cloud based data platforms and innovative technologies, specifically in healthcare/insurance/retail environments.

Team leadership of more than 50 employees

Demonstrated ability to facilitate and lead others and work with minimal direction, with the proven ability to coordinate complex activities. Demonstrated ability to build a sense of trust and rapport that creates a comfortable and effective workplace. Experience in developing presentations and communications to be shared with stakeholders.

Leadership experience of 7 years or more with overall experience of more than 15 years in the Information Technology/Data & Analytics domain

Advanced degree in information technology, computer science, data science, statistics, engineering or a related quantitative discipline 

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Why Join Our Team

When you join Ascension, you join a team of over 150,000 individuals across the country committed to a Mission of serving others and providing compassionate, personalized care to all. Our inclusive culture, continuing education programs, career coaches and benefit offerings are just a few of the resources and tools that team members can use to create a rewarding career path. In fact, Ascension spent nearly $46 million in tuition assistance alone to support associate growth and development. If you are looking for a career where you can grow and make a difference in your community, we invite you to join our team today.

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