Senior Technical Product Owner Data Platform

Join DHCSs Behavioral Health Transformation: Where Purpose Meets Innovation

Why DHCS
At DHCS we are leading a transformative journey in Behavioral Health reshaping systems and services to ensure better outcomes for communities across California. Our Behavioral Health transformation initiative is more than a projectits a movement to make California a leader in accessible high-quality health services. Were setting the stage for a new era of government services built on agile methodologies cutting-edge technology continuous improvement and a relentless commitment to serving the public good.

At DHCS were looking for innovators who are passionate about purposeful work and excited by the opportunity to drive lasting change through innovative solutions.

Our Core Values (Achieve Together Be Curious Elevate Yourself and Deliver Value)

• Weachieve togetherby championing a team-oriented workplace built on mutual respect collaboration and open communication.

• We encourage individuals and teams to constantlybe curiousand seek a deeper understanding and fresh ideas that drive innovation and meaningful change.

• We provide a supportive workplace where you canelevate yourselfand achieve personal growth through continuous learning focused effort and perseverance.

• Wedeliver valueas part of every action we take to serve Californias citizens
  
  We work within government for governmentbut we dont work like government
  Were agile in practice and philosophy
  Were purpose-driven and outcome-obsessed
  Were modernizing behavioral health technology in Californiaincluding addressing overdose suicide and the crises that leave people on the streets
  
  Were honest about the challengesstate government is bureaucratic and we cant match most tech salaries. But heres what we can offer:
  Purpose that matters
  Teammates who care deeply
  Work-life balance (no nights weekends offshoreor burnout)
  Fully remote work
  Were not just changing legacy tech into modern scalable techwere changing how the government sector uses technology

• Data contracts
• REST APIs & API contracts
• Semantic view layer
• PHI/PII privacy protections
• Data governance & stewardship

• Own rigorously refine and maintain the technical backlog prioritizing privacy governance stewardship data/API contracts REST API enablement and AI/ML enablement for BH healthcare use cases.
• Translate policy/program (BH reporting SUD confidentiality) compliance (HIPAA/42 CFR Part 2) steward risk and interoperability requirements into detailed epics features technical stories and non-functional criteria (e.g. contract validation SLAs masking enforcement API versioning policies).

• Partner with Product Managers engineering leads domain owners (BH/counties/MCPs) stewards and API teams to define ambitious OKRs focused on data mesh maturity semantic excellence contract-driven reliability API self-service PHI/PII privacy-by-design and federated governance in healthcare.
• Align priorities with DHCS goals regulatory mandates (state/federal BH reporting 42 CFR Part 2/HIPAA alignment) open standards (e.g. ODCS for contracts) and multi-year roadmaps for lakehouse semantic layer contracts/APIs privacy governance and AI/ML scaling.

• Architect self-service capabilities: automated workspace provisioning Unity Catalog federated governance (fine-grained access lineage Delta Sharing) Delta Lake/Delta Live Tables pipelines medallion architectures streaming/batch/ML support for BH analytics.
• Design/evolve the semantic view layer (Unity Catalog Metric Views/YAML) for reusable governed BH metrics/dimensions integrated with Collibra for metadata propagation and quality.
• Build data contracts framework: YAML/ODCS specs for schema/semantics/quality/SLAs/ownership; enforce via CI/CD validation Unity Catalog tags/schemas programmatic checks (breaking-change detection) to ensure interoperability across counties/MCPs.
• Design REST APIs for data product exposure: secure endpoints (Delta Sharing/custom REST via gateways) API contracts (OpenAPI) for versioning/auth/documentation/discoverability in Collibra supporting programmatic BH reporting/oversight.
• Implement enterprise-grade PHI/PII privacy protections for BH/SUD data: automated classification (Unity Catalog AI) dynamic masking/row filtering (ABAC/SQL functions) encryption (CMK) de-identification patterns auditingenforced through data/API contracts and 42 CFR Part 2/HIPAA alignment.
• Lead Unity Catalog Collibra integration: metadata/lineage sync policy pushdown (Protect for row/column enforcement) business glossaries quality rules contract metadata propagation stewardship workflows.
• Enable federated data stewardship: domain stewards (e.g. BH program/counties) own local contracts/quality/compliance with central enforcement via platform tools.
• Drive non-functional excellence: performance (Photon/Liquid Clustering) security/resilience observability audit trails for privacy/contracts/APIs in healthcare.

• Partner closely with policy teams domain stewards Collibra admins external partners (counties MCPs QHIOs) and engineers to define federated standards (data/API contracts privacy SLAs quality thresholds classification policies steward responsibilities) and validate BH outputs.
• Ensure platform enforces BH policy state/federal reporting standards privacy regulations (HIPAA/42 CFR Part 2 for SUD) contract reliability and API governance in a decentralized yet auditable compliant manner.

• Define/track platform metrics: adoption velocity semantic coverage Collibra quality scores data contract coverage/enforcement API usage PHI/PII classification/masking rate contract violation incidents steward satisfaction compliance coverage (BH reporting accuracy/timeliness) pipeline SLAs.
• Prioritize backlog to eliminate contract/API/privacy friction reduce governance risks boost trustworthiness/interoperability and accelerate steward/domain value in healthcare.
• Lead POCs benchmarks and testing (e.g. contract validation API integrations new Unity Catalog/Collibra features for BH compliance).

• Lead technical agile ceremonies across platform/domain/stewardship/Collibra/policy/API teams.
• Champion data users (BH analysts leadership counties) while enforcing architectural rigor in lakehouse data mesh semantic layers contracts/APIs privacy and governance.
• Provide thought leadership on Databricks patterns (Unity Catalog contracts/ABAC Delta Sharing APIs) Collibra synergies data mesh contract/API/stewardship models in regulated healthcare/BH and best practices for PHI/PII/SUD handling.

• Advanced backlog/roadmap management for self-service platforms in healthcare data mesh/lakehouse with privacy/governance/semantic/contract/API focus.
• Deep fluency in data engineering: ETL/ELT medallion entity resolution semantic layers streaming data contracts (YAML/ODCS) API contracts (OpenAPI) observability.
• Mastery of Databricks lakehouse (performance/governance/privacy/contracts) Collibra (catalog/quality/stewardship/Protect) PHI/PII patterns REST/API patterns in BH contexts.
• Comfort prototyping/validating in Python/SQL/Spark including contract validation API mocks and privacy controls.
• Data-driven prioritization with OKR/metrics emphasis on contract health API reliability privacy/governance maturity adoption steward enablement in healthcare.
• Exceptional technical communication to align engineers stewards domains executives regulators/policy teams.
• Full operational ownership: backlog incidents risk/privacy/contract mitigation capacityensuring production stability/resilience/SLAs/compliance.
• Strategic thinking: balance delivery with long-term vision (scalability AI readiness for BH insights contract/API/governance maturity).
• Leadership in highly regulated cross-functional healthcare settings with tough trade-offs (privacy vs. accessibility contract rigor vs. usability).

• Hands-on with Unity Catalog advanced features (Data Classification AI ABAC Metric Views composability) Collibra Protect data contract tools (e.g. ODCS validation).
• Experience defining federated contract/API/stewardship models in healthcare data mesh (domain contracts central PHI/PII/SUD policies versioning Delta Sharing APIs).
• Nice-to-have: Strong experience in entity resolution and Master Data Management (MDM) including probabilistic/fuzzy matching algorithms golden record creation duplicate detection/merging and ML-driven resolution patterns (e.g. for patient/provider/entity unification across disparate BH/SUD sources like EMRs claims counties/MCPs) to enhance data quality trustworthiness and interoperability in regulated healthcare environments.
• Nice-to-have: Proven experience delivering AI/ML capabilities for data scientists including self-serve ML workflows on Databricks (e.g. Mosaic AI for model training/fine-tuning/serving/evaluation/agent frameworks/RAG/GenAI MLflow for experiment tracking/model registry feature stores inference tables Unity Catalog governance for AI assets/models secure model serving endpoints) to enable governed scalable AI/ML in a data mesh (e.g. domain-owned predictive models for BH risk/outcomes anomaly detection GenAI-assisted insights) while maintaining PHI/PII compliance and federated access.
• Knowledge of BH/SUD privacy/security (de-identification consent differential privacy) enterprise integrations/API gateways.