Director Data Trust and Enablement

Surescripts

5d • $190,900 - $233,300 • Hybrid

About The Position

Surescripts serves the nation through simpler, trusted health intelligence sharing, in order to increase patient safety, lower costs and ensure quality care. We deliver insights at critical points of care for better decisions — from streamlining prior authorizations to delivering comprehensive medication histories to facilitating messages between providers. The Director Data Trust and Enablement leads the governance function within our Enterprise Data Platform organization. This role is responsible for stewarding data policy, catalog, data quality standards, and compliance, but is built on a fundamentally different philosophy than traditional governance functions. At Surescripts we believe governance should be an enabler, not a gate – and this role is responsible for making that a reality. The Trust & Enablement team makes it structurally easy for every team across the platform to do the right thing with data: to build products that are trustworthy, consumable, and compliant by design rather than by audit. This role will report to the VP of Enterprise Data Platform and lead a team that owns the data catalog, business glossary, stewardship workflows, data policy, certification standards, and the critical data element program that underpins Surescripts' ability to commercialize and externalize data products. This role will operate as a peer to the leaders of our Unified Data Fabric, Data Product Delivery, Architecture and Semantic Intelligence, and Platform Engineering teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, business administration, or related field
• 10+ years of experience in data governance, data management, or a closely related discipline, with at least 3 years leading a governance or stewardship function at an enterprise level.
• A demonstrated philosophy of governance as enablement; a track record of building governance programs that increase team velocity and data trust simultaneously (vs programs that create compliance overhead).
• Hands-on experience with Collibra or a comparable enterprise data catalog platform including stewardship workflow design, business glossary management, lineage configuration, and policy management.
• Deep familiarity with data governance frameworks (DAMA-DMBOK, DCAM, or equivalent) and the ability to adapt framework concepts into a practical operating model.
• Experience defining and managing critical data element programs, including business definition ownership, certification workflows, and cross-functional stewardship.
• Strong understanding of HIPAA and healthcare data compliance requirements.
• Experience in healthcare, life sciences, or similarly regulated industry is strongly preferred.
• Ability to operate effectively across both technical and business audiences, translating between engineering rigor and business language without losing either audience.
• Experience building and leading teams, including hiring and developing governance professionals and data stewards.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in healthcare, life sciences, financial services, or other highly regulated industries
• Experience implementing platform capabilities supporting synthetic data, data observability, metadata management, and data trust frameworks

Responsibilities

• Redefine what governance means at Surescripts. Lead the cultural and operational shift from governance as policy enforcement to governance as platform capability. Design a Trust & Enablement function that teams want to engage with because it makes their work faster, cleaner, and more impactful.
• Own the data catalog and business glossary. Lead the strategy and operation of Surescripts' Collibra environment. Ensure that certified, trusted data assets are discoverable, described, and understood by technical and business consumers alike. Drive adoption of the catalog as the authoritative reference for what data exists, what it means, and whether it can be trusted.
• Define and manage the data certification program. Establish the standards by which a data asset earns certified status and the workflow through which it gets there. Work across Enterprise Data Platform teams to automate certification pathways and ensure that certification is meaningful.
• Lead the Critical Data Element program. Identify, define, and govern the critical data elements that matter most to Surescripts: patient identity, provider identity, drug reference data, transaction records, in partnership with business stakeholders and the Architecture and Semantic Intelligence team. Ensure these elements are owned, stewarded, and certified.
• Own data policy and compliance. Develop and enforce the data policies that govern how data is accessed, used, shared, and retained at Surescripts. Navigate HIPAA and other applicable regulatory requirements with confidence. Serve as the internal authority on what is permissible with Surescripts data — including what can be externalized to partners and what can be exposed to machine and AI consumers.
• Build and lead the stewardship community. Establish a network of data stewards across business and technical domains. Equip stewards with the tools, processes, and support they need to take genuine ownership of data within their domain(s).
• Partner across the platform. Work closely with Architecture and Semantic Intelligence to ensure canonical model definitions are reflected in the business glossary and governed appropriately. Partner with Data Product Delivery to embed trust and certification checkpoints into the product development lifecycle. Support the Unified Data Fabric team with domain-level data quality standards and SLA definitions.
• Represent trust in stakeholder reporting. Own the Trust & Enablement workstream in Surescripts' Enterprise Data Platform stakeholder reporting. Translate governance metrics into a narrative that connects to business outcomes.
• Contribute to platform strategy. Participate as a senior leader in the Enterprise Data Platform leadership team. Bring the perspective of the data foundation into roadmap planning, organizational decisions, and executive reporting through the VP of Enterprise Data Platform.

Benefits

• comprehensive healthcare (including infertility coverage)
• generous paid time off including paid childbirth and parental leave and mental health days
• pet insurance
• 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director