Data Modernization Strategy & Execution Lead

About the role

The Data Modernization Strategy & Execution Lead supports the CDC's Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology (OPHDST) at the Roybal or Chamblee campus in Atlanta, GA. The role is central to CDC's Data Modernization Initiative (DMI), which aims to replace fragmented, siloed, slow data with a connected, near-real-time public health data enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Mature and grow an established data strategy and milestone framework — driving development, tracking, governance, and reporting from plan through execution.
• Serve as a trusted, embedded advisor to CDC leadership, building the customer relationships that let you move with the office as its priorities mature.
• Drive milestones to completion across multiple owners and divisions, holding a complex, fragmented stakeholder set accountable to outcomes.
• Deepen the integration of DMI activities and platform data, connecting strategy to what the office can actually direct and measure.
• Translate leadership priorities into coordinated plans, roadmaps, and spend/governance artifacts that keep the program aligned and moving.
• Cookordination across program management, data, and operational functions so strategy and delivery stay one connected effort, not a handoff chain.

Requirements

Required — Proven Practical Execution Bachelor's degree plus 8+ years of relevant experience in public health, data modernization, or federal health program strategy and execution (additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree).

Demonstrated, hands-on experience maturing a strategy or milestone framework to completion in a federal health or data environment — not advising on it from the outside, but driving the work.

Track record of customer intimacy at the leadership level: understanding what an organization actually needs, helping it see that need clearly, and earning the trust to guide the path.

Experience holding fragmented, multi-stakeholder programs accountable to milestones and outcomes.

Strong coordination across program management, data, and operational functions in a complex organization.

Ability to obtain and maintain a CDC Public Trust clearance and CDC badge.

Local to the Atlanta metro and within commuting distance of the Roybal or Chamblee campus — on-site presence is required (this is not a fully remote role).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus 8+ years of relevant experience in public health, data modernization, or federal health program strategy and execution.
• Proven practical execution.
• Hands-on experience maturing a strategy or milestone framework to completion in a federal health or data environment.
• Customer intimacy at the leadership level.
• Fragmented, multi-stakeholder programs accountability to milestones and outcomes.
• Coordination across program management, data, and operational functions in a complex organization.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a CDC Public Trust clearance and CDC badge.
• Preferred qualifications include current or recent CDC/HHS experience, badge, or familiarity with OPHDST/DDPHSS or an adjacent office, direct experience with data modernization initiatives, integrated data platforms, or public health data strategy, familiarity with federal planning, spend, and governance workflows, advanced degree in public health, health policy, data science, or a related field.

Skills

• Accountability
• Program Management
• Strategic Initiative

Benefits

Includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.

Paid vacation and holidays (for eligible employees).

Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home.

Comprehensive health and wellness packages.

Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career.

Pay

$136,000 - $184,000

Schedule

40 hours per week