Vice President, Interoperability Strategy and Operations
Posted Aug 25, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about a time you translated a new regulation into a business and technology plan that met the deadline.
What they are checking: Whether they have actually delivered regulatory change under time pressure across teams.
How do you manage partnerships with EHR vendors and third-party integrators who have their own priorities?
What they are checking: Whether they can get outside partners to deliver on the plan's timeline without direct control.
Describe a time you aligned clinical, operational and technology leaders who each wanted something different from a data program.
What they are checking: Whether they can build agreement across groups with competing goals in a large enterprise.
What would you do
How would you build an interoperability roadmap that serves both regulatory deadlines and real business value?
What they are checking: Whether they can avoid pure checkbox compliance and get operational benefit from the same investments.
Providers say they cannot get the data they need from us in a usable form. How would you respond?
What they are checking: Whether they treat provider experience as a real outcome of interoperability, not just API uptime.
A state adds an interoperability requirement that conflicts with your federal roadmap timing. What do you do?
What they are checking: Whether they can juggle multiple regulators across lines of business and set clear priorities.
About the work
Walk me through the federal interoperability requirements that matter most for a payer like Centene right now.
What they are checking: Whether they know rules like the CMS interoperability and prior authorization rules and what they demand of payers.
Explain how payer-to-payer data exchange works and where it tends to break down.
What they are checking: Whether they understand member matching, consent and data quality issues in practice, not just in theory.
What governance and risk controls would you put around data exchange to keep it secure and accurate?
What they are checking: Whether they think about access control, auditing and data quality as part of the operating model.
How would you measure whether interoperability is improving managed care workflows like care coordination and prior authorization?
What they are checking: Whether they can tie data exchange to operational results instead of transaction counts.
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