Vice President of Data Architecture & Integration

Role Description

The Vice President, Enterprise Data Architecture & Integration is responsible for the enterprise strategy, architecture, governance, and delivery of the organization's information assets. Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, this senior leader role establishes the enterprise data architecture that enables operational excellence, financial transactions, external partner connectivity, regulatory compliance, analytics, and artificial intelligence.

This role is accountable for ensuring enterprise data is modeled once, governed consistently, and delivered through secure, reliable, and scalable enterprise data services. The position leads enterprise data architecture, data governance, enterprise integration services, and enterprise data platform, including responsibility for EDI, client extracts, file-based integrations, APIs, and external partner connectivity.

Working closely with Product, Engineering, Analytics, Operations, Finance, Commercial, and Compliance, this leader ensures enterprise information is treated as a strategic corporate asset supporting every major business capability.

Goal: Establish a single, trusted enterprise information foundation that supports operational transactions, financial processes, reporting, regulatory compliance, partner connectivity, analytics, and AI. Enterprise data should be structured once and leveraged many times across the organization.

Responsibilities Include:

• Define and maintain the enterprise information architecture, canonical data model, and authoritative systems of record.
• Lead enterprise data governance, metadata, lineage, master data management, business glossary, stewardship, and data quality programs.
• Lead Enterprise Integration Services responsible for EDI, file-based interfaces, client extracts, regulatory submissions, APIs, trading partner onboarding, and third-party integrations.
• Define enterprise integration standards and reusable data exchange patterns to reduce point-to-point interfaces.
• Ensure data architecture supports operational systems (e.g. billing, claims processing, provider reimbursement, etc.), client reporting, analytics, and AI without unnecessary duplication.
• Partner with Analytics to deliver data through trusted metadata, semantic consistency, lineage, and governed data products.
• Provide executive oversight for availability, monitoring, SLA management, disaster recovery, and operational excellence of enterprise data services.
• Serve as the enterprise authority for information architecture and participate in architecture governance for major initiatives.
• Establish and maintain, jointly with Analytics, a shared semantic/metrics layer where core business definitions (e.g., member, enrollment, PMPM) are consumed consistently across operational reporting, client-facing analytics, and AI.

Technical Leadership

• Enterprise information architecture and canonical data modeling
• Cloud-native data platforms, data warehouses, data lakes, and operational data stores
• Healthcare interoperability including HIPAA X12, HL7, and FHIR
• API-first, event-driven, batch, and file-based integration architectures
• Master Data Management, metadata management, data catalogs, lineage, and governance
• AI-ready architecture including semantic models, vector-ready data, knowledge graphs, and retrieval architectures
• Security, privacy, HIPAA compliance, encryption, masking, and access controls
• Analytics engineering and transformation frameworks, pipeline orchestration, and data-quality testing and observability across the curated and consumption layers

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 10 years leading enterprise data architecture, integration, or enterprise information management.
• 5 years in senior technology leadership.
• Healthcare payer experience strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise architecture, governance, integration, and platform organizations.
• Familiarity with recognized architecture and governance frameworks such as TOGAF, DAMA-DMBOK or similar methodologies.
• Experience with cloud data and integration technologies, preferably within AWS.

Requirements

• Improved enterprise data quality and reuse
• Reliable EDI, APIs, and external data exchanges
• Reduced duplicate data and integration complexity
• Faster onboarding of clients and trading partners
• Improved operational reporting and analytics enablement
• Enterprise data architecture that supports AI initiatives without significant redesign
• Core entity metrics (e.g., member and enrollment counts) are consistent and reconciled across operational, client, and analytics reporting from a shared

Work Location

This position is remote, with periodic travel to Centivo office locations is required as needed.

Executive/Senior Leadership Skills

• Business Acumen: A keenness and quickness in understanding and dealing with a business situation (risks and opportunities) in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome.
• Accountability & Execution: Taking ownership of actions, following through on commitments, actively carrying out tasks, monitoring progress, delivering results as promised.
• Executive Presence: The combination of gravitas, charisma, and trust/authenticity that shows up as a calm, confident demeanor.
• Gravitas: The ability to combine expertise, knowledge, and depth of understanding to be credible in a given area.
• Charisma: The ability to build rapport, tell a story, and "hold a room".
• Empathy/Humility: The ability to put oneself in the shoes of others, listen to others, understand others' needs, and build trust.
• Strategist Mindset: The ability to see and articulate the bigger picture, thinking proactively and anticipating both opportunities and obstacles.
• Systems Thinking: The ability to see and articulate the patterns, interconnections, and interdependencies within a system.
• Process Orientation: The ability to see and articulate the sequential flow of activities, including anticipating impacts upstream and downstream.
• Flexibility/Working through Ambiguity: Tendency to be energized by new experiences.

People Manager Leadership Behaviors

• Communicate: Managers discuss the company's vision and strategies, the department's direction and goals.
• Clarify: Managers are responsible for clarifying what good performance looks like, outlining expectations.
• Coach: Managers provide recognition and feedback, help team members solve challenges.
• Connect: Managers help teams understand their collective purpose and how their work fits into the bigger picture.
• Customize: Managers adapt their delegation, clarification, coaching, communication, and connection strategies to suit the individual.

Centivo Values

• Resilient: This work is very challenging, and there is no easy solution for healthcare affordability.
• Uncommon: The current status quo in healthcare does not work for members, employers, or providers.
• Positive: We care for one another and acknowledge that building something better requires energy and resilience.

Company Description

Centivo is an innovative health plan for self-funded employers on a mission to bring affordable, high-quality healthcare to the millions who struggle to pay their healthcare bills. Anchored around a primary care based ACO model, Centivo saves employers 15 to 30 percent compared to traditional insurance carriers. Employees also realize significant savings through our free primary care (including virtual), predictable copay and no-deductible benefit plan design. Centivo works with employers ranging in size from 51 employees to Fortune 500 companies.

Headquartered in Buffalo, NY with offices in New York City and Buffalo, Centivo is backed by leading healthcare and technology investors, including a recent round of investment from Morgan Health, a business unit of JPMorgan Chase & Co.