Director of Data Practice

AHP is building a Data Office and hiring the Director of Data Practice to run it day to day. The Director manages the office's two capability leads, owns intake and prioritization across the portfolio, and holds the delivery standard so the Chief Data Officer can focus on strategy.

The Director of Data Practice will report to the Chief Data Officer and manages both the Methods & Standards Lead and the Analytics & Delivery Lead, both senior practitioners who run their own domains and work directly with the CDO on strategy.

• Manage how data work gets scoped, staffed, and sequenced across AHP's enterprise and client-facing portfolio.
• Run the Data Office intake system: triage requests, apply the prioritization framework, and publish the data portfolio roadmap. AI-related data requests move through the same pipeline.
• Put the governance framework into daily practice: enterprise reporting and quality standards, definition escalations, and the cadence that keeps Data Council decisions moving.
• Supervise and develop the two capability leads, including technical review of their work, and keep methodology and delivery aligned.
• Serve as the primary interface between the Data Office and project directors; align Data Office delivery with the EPMO; coordinate Data Office contributions to AI work led by Digital Solutions.

• Advanced degree in a relevant field, or equivalent experience leading data, research, or analytics delivery.
• Track record leading complex, multi-workstream data projects to completion on visible deadlines.
• Depth in data governance: definitions, quality, stewardship, and standards implementation across teams.
• Experience managing senior technical and methodological staff, and coordinating with executives outside your reporting line.
• Hands-on experience across the tools the office runs: SQL, data pipelines and cloud warehouses, and at least one statistical environment (R, Stata, SAS, or Python). Depth on either the engineering or the analytic side, with enough fluency in the other to review work, set standards, and evaluate senior practitioners. AHP runs Redshift, Databricks, and Power BI.
• Client-facing consulting credibility. Behavioral health or federal and state contract experience is a plus.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Research suggests that women and Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) individuals may self-select out of opportunities if they do not meet 100 percent of the job requirements. At AHP, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway.

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$145,000 - $165,000

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Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, AHP provides a variety of benefits to employees, including comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, a retirement plan with a 3% match, student loan repayment assistance, employer-paid life and disability insurance,…