VP, Data Strategy – Governance

🔥 15 hours ago

🏛️ District of Columbia, Illinois, +4 more states – Remote

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Humana

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1961

🏥 Healthcare

🛡️ Insurance

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

Healthcare • Insurance • Healthcare Insurance

Humana is a healthcare company dedicated to making a positive impact on the health of individuals, communities, and the healthcare system as a whole. With a focus on putting health first, Humana serves a diverse range of populations, including seniors and the military, providing Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS plans. Humana is committed to fostering a culture of belonging and mutual respect, offering competitive and flexible benefits to ensure the financial security of its employees and their families. The company prides itself on creating an inclusive workplace where everyone has the opportunity to succeed.

📋 Description

• Establish and own the enterprise data strategy and roadmap across people, process, technology, and budget • Lead portfolio governance of enterprise data programs and ensure measurable business outcomes • Partner with the Chief Data & Analytics Officer and executive peers to articulate the value of data assets and influence investment decisions • Drive enterprise-scale data science and AI readiness through strong data infrastructure, lineage, quality, and accessibility • Develop and maintain a data product mindset with reusable, trusted, and documented data assets • Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team spanning sensitive data governance, lineage, enrichment, quality, democratization, and program management • Foster accountability, innovation, continuous learning, and data literacy across the organization • Recruit diverse senior talent, establish career pathways, and mentor future data leaders • Collaborate across Technology, Cybersecurity, Legal, Compliance, Finance, and business units to drive governance adoption • Define team operating models, performance metrics, and OKRs • Evaluate, select, and implement data governance platforms, catalogs, marketplaces, quality tools, and metadata systems • Modernize data scanning, automated tagging, labeling, classification, and data loss prevention capabilities • Design and deploy integrated data governance and security solutions across on-premises and cloud environments • Operationalize ML/AI-based governance approaches including lineage discovery, anomaly detection, synthetic data, and differential privacy • Enhance metadata management, data lineage, quality standards, master data management, and access governance • Define, publish, and enforce enterprise data policies, standards, and controls • Enable self-service data access with governance guardrails, role-based access controls, and marketplace infrastructure • Establish data stewardship and domain ownership models • Improve data anonymization, de-identification, and synthetic data capabilities • Lead the enterprise Data Risk Assessment program • Ensure compliance with HIPAA, CCPA/CPRA, GDPR, and other applicable regulations • Collaborate with Legal, Compliance, and Cybersecurity on regulatory changes and controls • Strengthen encryption, tokenization, masking, data loss prevention, and access control frameworks • Provide recurring executive and Board-level reporting on governance risk, compliance, and program maturity

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of senior leadership experience in data governance, data management, or data strategy roles within large, complex, matrixed corporate environments • 10+ years of hands-on data governance experience in on-premises and cloud-native environments, including AWS, Azure, GCP or equivalent • Demonstrated experience building and scaling data governance programs from concept through enterprise adoption • Proven experience managing and delivering large, multi-workstream programs on time and within budget • Hands-on experience and/or leadership responsibility for data catalogs, data lineage platforms, data marketplace systems, and data quality frameworks • Relevant experience in consumer goods, healthcare, financial services, or technology industries strongly preferred • Deep expertise in data architecture, data warehousing, data quality processes, and enterprise data modeling • Experience with encryption, tokenization, data masking, data loss prevention, and role-based access control design • Working knowledge of cybersecurity assessment methodologies and data security controls • Familiarity with automated metadata tagging, anomaly detection, synthetic data generation, and differential privacy • Strong command of HIPAA, CCPA/CPRA, GDPR, and related data privacy regulations • Ability to drive a product mindset across enterprise data and analytics and manage data products through their full lifecycle • Exceptional executive presence and communication skills for C-suite, Board, and business stakeholders • Ability to introduce emerging technologies and develop analytics-based capabilities with cost awareness and commercial strategy • Proven ability to drive enterprise-wide change in matrixed organizations through influence, coalition-building, and stakeholder management • Advanced degree (Master's or higher) in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Management, Statistics, Mathematics, Law, Cybersecurity, or a related field required

🏖️ Benefits

• Full-time schedule of 40 hours per week • Equal opportunity employment and affirmative action protections