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University of Utah Health · 15 hours ago

Chief Healthcare Data Officer (CHDO) - University of Utah Health

Salt Lake City, UT

Full-time

Hybrid

Director/Executive

10+ years exp

University of Utah Health is an integrated academic healthcare system that focuses on enhancing health and well-being through patient care, research, and education. The Chief Healthcare Data Officer (CHDO) is responsible for leading the enterprise data ecosystem, establishing strategies and governance for data use across the health system, and ensuring that data initiatives support analytics and AI applications.

Health CareHigher EducationTechnical SupportTraining

Responsibilities

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

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

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

The CHDO leads centralized data management and data engineering services responsible for ingesting, integrating, modeling, and curating enterprise data

The CHDO establishes and sustains enterprise data governance, stewardship, metadata, and data quality practices that build trust and confidence in health system data

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 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

The CHDO promotes the responsible and ethical use of data and automated decision technologies, extending beyond minimum compliance requirements

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 CHDO maintains a close and collaborative partnership with the CAHIO to align data platform capabilities with the enterprise insight agenda

Qualification

Enterprise Data StrategyData GovernanceData QualityData EngineeringHealthcare ExperienceCloud Data WarehousingIntegration PlatformsExecutive CommunicationPeople LeadershipChange LeadershipCollaboration

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

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

Company

University of Utah Health

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University of Utah Health is the Intermountain West’s only academic health care system, combining excellence in patient care, the latest in medical research, and teaching to provide leading-edge medicine in a caring and personal setting.

Founded in 1965

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

10001+ employees