Sr Director, Data Domain Owner

Posting Date 08/28/2026 2000 16th Street, Denver, Colorado, 80202, United States of America Sr Director, Data Domain Owner Summary Lead the strategy and governance for one of DaVita's most important enterprise data assets: Payer Data. As the Payer Data Domain Owner, you'll drive the vision, roadmap, governance model, and adoption of payer data across the organization, ensuring it is trusted, accessible, and capable of powering critical business, operational, clinical, and AI-driven initiatives. You'll partner with senior leaders across the Village to influence priorities, establish standards, and unlock enterprise value through high-quality data and scalable data products. The Domain Owner will coordinate closely with Data Stewards and Data Custodians across several ‘sub-domains’ (Patient, Provider, Payer, Teammate, Village). This role is essential for making the centralization successful because they serve as the voice of the business for that data, ensuring the new Central Data Hub team builds and executes use cases that meet business needs.

Strategic Leadership & Vision Set and communicate a clear vision and priorities for data efforts within the domain, ensuring alignment with Village-wide priorities such as improving clinical outcomes, driving census growth, and inflecting Teammate engagement and retention. Stakeholder Collaboration & Alignment Partner with departmental management and business leaders to develop strategic and tactical solutions that support business strategies. Coordinate with other Domain Owners and the enterprise data product team to ensure alignment across domains and limit overlapping efforts. Coordinate with Village leadership to ensure alignment with Village-wide priorities, including working with business lane leaders on high-value data issues and with data management leadership for the coordinated use of resources. Promote data product adoption with business users in governance forums. When needed, escalate disagreements on prioritization to Data or Business leadership for resolution. Governance & Execution Decision Rights (Governance): be final decision-maker for data issues and policy changes within domain. Facilitate Data Governance Council (DGC) and guide agenda/decisions required in governance. Guidance and Support: Support Data Stewards and Data Custodians as they resolve data quality issues and build data products within their respective sub-domains by helping to prioritize issues and initiatives. Organize and run regular Domain Working Groups to drive accountability for sub-domain teams (Data Stewards and Data Custodians) and ensure alignment on topics like data definitions. Defining Standards: establish and approve the master definitions, quality rules, and metadata for data domain. Risk Management: own the responsibility for compliance and regulatory risks associated with their data (e.g., privacy rules for patient data). Prioritization: work with the new central hub team to prioritize data projects and quality initiatives based on the business value of domain, ensuring CDO teammates are focused on the most critical needs Other Duties as Assigned Qualifications & Experience Required Experience 8+ years of experience in data management, data governance, data strategy, master data management (MDM), data product management, enterprise analytics, or a related field. 5+ years leading cross-functional enterprise data initiatives involving business, product, technology, and analytics teams. 3+ years of healthcare industry experience with knowledge of provider, patient, clinical, operational, or healthcare network data. Demonstrated experience developing and executing enterprise data governance frameworks , including data ownership, stewardship, data quality, metadata management, business glossaries, and policy management. Experience leading large-scale stakeholder alignment efforts across multiple business functions, including facilitating governance