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Overview

The Chief Healthcare Data Officer (CHDO) is an executive leadership role in the University of Utah Health System responsible for the enterprise data ecosystem that enables trusted, secure, and scalable use of data across University of Utah Health.

The CHDO establishes the strategy, architecture, governance, and operating model for health system data so it can be reliably used for analytics, insight generation, and responsible AI. The CHDO leads modernization and stewardship of core data platforms and services—including data warehousing, lakehouse and data fabric technologies, integration and interoperability, master and reference data, metadata, and data engineering services.

The overall goal is to deliver trusted, reusable data resources and services—developed in partnership with stakeholders across clinical, financial, operational, and research domains—that advance the strategic priorities of Health Sciences.

This role is intentionally complementary to the Chief Analytics and Health Insight Officer (CAHIO). The Chief Healthcare Data Officer (CHDO) partners closely with the CAHIO to ensure that enterprise analytics, insights, and AI initiatives are built on a strong, trusted data foundation. The CHDO leads how data is sourced, governed, engineered, and made reliable at scale, while the CAHIO leads how analytics and insights are prioritized, developed, and applied to inform decisions. Together, these roles create an integrated model in which high-quality, well-governed data enables timely, impactful insights and confident decision-making across the health system.

This position does not provide patient care.

Qualified candidates must have:

+ **Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, data science, or a related field (or equivalent experience).**

+ **Ten or more years of progressively responsible experience in enterprise data management, data platforms, or information management.**

+ **Five or more years of senior leadership experience leading cross‑functional teams and enterprise‑wide data initiatives.**

+ **Demonstrated experience in data governance, data quality, integration, and operating model design.**

+ **Healthcare or other highly regulated industry experience.**

Preferred Qualifications:

+ Experience modernizing enterprise data platforms (cloud data warehousing/lakehouse, integration platforms, metadata and master data management).

+ Experience in an academic health system environment that includes clinical care, education, and research.

+ Strategy, technology, or management consulting experience supporting enterprise data transformations.

**Corporate Overview:** University of Utah Health is an integrated academic healthcare system with five hospitals including a level 1 trauma center, eleven community health centers, over 1,600 providers, and a health plan serving over 200,000 members. University of Utah Health is nationally ranked and recognized for our academic research, quality standards and overall patient experience. In addition to our clinical delivery system, we have a School of Medicine, School of Dentistry, College of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, and College of Health providing education and training for over 1,250 providers annually. We have over 2 million patient visits annually and research grants exceeding $350 million. University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics represents our clinical operations for the larger health system.

_As a patient-focused organization, University of Utah Health exists to enhance the health and well-being of people through patient care, research and education. Success in this mission requires a culture of collaboration, excellence, leadership, and respect. University of Utah Health seeks staff that are committed to the values of compassion, collaboration, innovation, responsibility, integrity, quality and trust that are integral to our mission. EO/AA_

Responsibilities

Enterprise Data Architecture

+ The CHDO defines and stewards the enterprise approach to data and reference architecture that supports clinical care, operations, finance, research, analytics, and AI across the health system. This role leads the design and ongoing evolution of the health system’s data ecosystem in close collaboration with the CAHIO, IT, clinical, operational, finance and research, and leaders. Through thoughtful architectural choices, the CHDO ensures that enterprise data platforms enable scalability, interoperability, and reuse across analytic and operational use cases, providing a durable foundation for insight and innovation.

Data Platform Roadmap and Integration

+ The CHDO owns the multi-year roadmap for enterprise data platforms, integration, and interoperability capabilities, including data warehousing, lakehouse and fabric technologies, pipelines, APIs, master data, and metadata management. In partnership with the Health System Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO) and IT leadership, the CHDO aligns data platforms with infrastructure standards, security requirements, and the broader enterprise technology strategy. The role also works closely with the CAHIO to ensure that platform investments and priorities are well aligned with evolving analytic and insight needs.

Enterprise Data Operating Model

+ The CHDO establishes and maintains a clear operating model for enterprise data management and engineering that balances centralized services with federated domain participation and well-defined accountabilities. This includes clarifying roles, responsibilities, and handoffs among data platform teams, analytics and insight teams, and operational stakeholders. The operating model is designed to support the timely delivery of data resources while maintaining appropriate governance, standards, and control across the enterprise.

Centralized Data Engineering and Data Management Services

+ The CHDO leads centralized data management and data engineering services responsible for ingesting, integrating, modeling, and curating enterprise data. These services deliver timely and reusable data resources that meet defined standards for quality, traceability, timeliness, usability, and cost-effectiveness. The role establishes and enforces consistent methods, tools, and practices for data development and lifecycle management to ensure reliability and scalability.

Data Governance, Quality, and Stewardship

+ The CHDO establishes and sustains enterprise data governance, stewardship, metadata, and data quality practices that build trust and confidence in health system data. This includes defining and maintaining an information trust model, with clear ownership of master and reference data. The CHDO partners with clinical, operational, finance, research, security, privacy, legal, compliance, and risk leaders to ensure shared accountability for data assets and their appropriate use across the organization.

Privacy, Security, Compliance, and Audit Readiness

+ The CHDO ensures that enterprise data practices comply with applicable healthcare and data regulations, including HIPAA, HITECH, FERPA, and relevant state privacy laws, in close collaboration with Legal, Compliance, and Information Security. The role maintains appropriate controls, documentation, and evidence to support regulatory reporting and independent audits that rely on enterprise data, reinforcing trust and accountability.

Secure External Data Enablement and Exchange

+ The CHDO enables secure and compliant data exchange beyond the health system by incorporating enterprise standards, architectures, and governance for external data access, sharing, and integration. In partnership with Legal, Compliance, Information Security, Research, Academics and Clinical Leaders, the role ensures that external data movement supports collaboration and innovation while meeting healthcare privacy, security, and regulatory obligations.

Responsible Data Use and AI Readiness

+ The CHDO promotes the responsible and ethical use of data and automated decision technologies, extending beyond minimum compliance requirements. By ensuring strong governance, data quality, metadata management, and risk controls, the CHDO prepares enterprise data assets for safe and effective use in AI and advanced analytics. The role partners with analytics, innovation, and clinical leaders to enable downstream AI applications that are both impactful and responsible.

Value Realization and Executive Partnership

+ The CHDO positions data as a strategic healthcare enterprise asset by partnering with executive leadership to connect data investments to measurable strategic and operational outcomes. The role tracks and communicates the value created by data platforms and data resources using indicators such as adoption, data quality improvements, and time-to-availability, reinforcing the business impact of data capabilities.

Partnership with the Chief Analytics and Health Insight Officer

+ The CHDO maintains a close and collaborative partnership with the CAHIO to align data platform capabilities with the enterprise insight agenda. By providing trusted, well-governed, and reusable data products, the CHDO enables analytics and insight teams to deliver high-value analysis and decision support. Together, the two roles support analytic innovation while maintaining clear accountability between the enterprise data foundation and applied analytics.

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

+ Enterprise Data Strategy & Architecture – Ability to design and communicate a coherent data strategy aligned to enterprise needs.

+ Data Platform & Engineering Leadership – Experience leading modern data platforms, integration, and engineering teams.

+ Data Governance & Trust – Expertise in stewardship, metadata, data quality, and governance practices.

+ Privacy, Security & Compliance – Strong partnership skills with legal, compliance, and security leaders.

+ Executive Communication – Ability to translate technical concepts into clear, actionable executive messaging.

+ Collaboration & Influence – Proven ability to partner across IT, analytics, clinical, operational, finance, and research domains.

+ People Leadership – Experience building and developing high‑performing data and engineering teams.

+ Change Leadership – Ability to drive adoption of new standards and operating models in a complex academic health system.

Qualifications

Qualifications** **Required

+ Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, data science, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

+ Ten or more years of progressively responsible experience in enterprise data management, data platforms, or information management.

+ Five or more years of senior leadership experience leading cross‑functional teams and enterprise‑wide data initiatives.

+ Demonstrated experience in data governance, data quality, integration, and operating model design.

+ Healthcare or other highly regulated industry experience.

Qualifications (Preferred)

Preferred

+ Experience modernizing enterprise data platforms (cloud data warehousing/lakehouse, integration platforms, metadata and master data management).

+ Experience in an academic health system environment that includes clinical care, education, and research.

+ Strategy, technology, or management consulting experience supporting enterprise data transformations.

Working Conditions and Physical Demands

_Employee must be able to meet the following requirements with or without an accommodation._

+ This role is performed primarily in an office or hybrid setting with extensive computer use. Occasional travel between hospitals, clinics, and administrative sites is required for stakeholder engagement. This is a sedentary position that may require lifting up to 10 pounds with or without reasonable accommodation.

Physical Requirements

Listening, Manual Dexterity, Near Vision, Sitting, Speaking, Standing

Multi-lingual Candidates Welcomed

_To inquire about this posting, email: [email protected]_

EEO Statement

_University of Utah Health Hospitals and Clinics, a part of The University of Utah, values candidates who have experience working in settings with students and patients from all backgrounds and possess a strong commitment to improving access to higher education and quality healthcare for historically underrepresented students and patient populations._

_All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. Veterans’ preference is extended to qualified applicants, upon request and consistent with University policy and Utah state law. Upon request, reasonable accommodations in the application process will be provided to individuals with disabilities._

_University of Utah Health Hospitals and Clinics, a part of The University of Utah, is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer and does not discriminate based upon race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy-related conditions, genetic information, or protected veteran's status. The University does not discriminate on the basis of sex in the education program or activity that it operates, as required by Title IX and 34 CFR part 106. The requirement not to discriminate in education programs or activities extends to admission and employment. Inquiries about the application of Title IX and its regulations may be referred to the Title IX Coordinator, to the Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, or both._

_To request a reasonable accommodation for a disability, please contact the University of Utah Health Hospitals and Clinics Human Resources office at 801-581-6500. If you or someone you know has experienced discrimination or sexual misconduct including sexual harassment, you may contact the Director/Title IX Coordinator in the Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO). More information, including the Director/Title IX Coordinator's office address, electronic mail address, and telephone number can be located at:www.utah.edu/nondiscrimination/_

_Online reports may be submitted atoeo.utah.edu/_

_The University is a participating employer with Utah Retirement Systems (“URS”). Eligible new hires with prior URS service, may elect to enroll in URS if they make the election before they become eligible for retirement (usually the first day of work). Contact Hospitals and Clinics Human Resources at (801) 581-6500 for information. Individuals who previously retired and are receiving monthly retirement benefits from URS are subject to URS’ post-retirement rules and restrictions. Please contact Utah Retirement Systems at (801) 366-7770 or (800) 695-4877 or Hospitals and Clinics Human Resources at (801) 581-6500 if you have questions regarding the post-retirement rules._

_This position may require the successful completion of a criminal background check and/or drug screen._

**Requisition Number** _80625_

**Reg/Temp** _Regular_

**Employment Type** _Full-Time_

**Shift** _Day_

**Work Schedule** _M-F_

**Clinical/Non-Clinical Status** _Non-Clinical_

**Location Name** _Information Technology Services_

**Workplace Set Up** _Hybrid_

**_City_** _SALT LAKE CITY_

**_State_** _UT_

**Department** _COR ISC 17A ITS ADMIN_

**Category** _Information Technology_

**Workplace Set Up** _Hybrid_