Primary Responsibilities

• Provides visionary and transformative objectives for the advancement and usage of technology to enable business and clinical outcomes
• Focuses on leveraging innovative technologies to transform the clinical business model, products, and services
• Creates and executes on a technology strategy and roadmap that is agile, robust, efficient, and scalable
• Works to modernize infrastructure technologies; examples include leveraging cloud, edge computing, automation
• Advises and influences the organization on technology trends
• Builds diverse and innovative teams and develops leaders to achieve positive outcomes and success
• Leads technology operations setting and achieving a high bar for system availability and usability
• Ensures that internal and external systems are performing as needed by actively monitoring and responding to incidents that might affect system availability
• Engages in the procurement of technology and manages vendor relationships to bring greater value to the organization
• Partners with CISO and other IT Executives to ensure information assets are protected and the organization is ready to respond to a disaster or cyber event
• Serves as a member of the leadership team providing strategic direction on information technology related issues. Works effectively as a team member in a dynamic executive environment in a matrix organization and promotes teamwork within and across the organization by maintaining positive relationships and utilizing effective problem-solving skills.
• Directs, coordinates and guides strategic and tactical information technology (IT) planning for the organization in partnership with operational leadership to ensure a high degree of alignment with business goals.
• Develops and leads a high performing IT organization that institutes best practices, processes, disciplines and organization structure and creates an IT strategy to ensure solutions meet current and future business needs.
• Ensures the effective management of IT services for successful application and hardware support, adherence of service level agreements and successful completion of IT projects.
• Assumes fiscal responsibility through budgetary planning and implementation.
• Creates and nurtures excellent and highly credible user relationships with particular emphasis on consistent and exceptional service. Leads the collaboration, integration and development of effective relationships across the organization to accelerate innovation of new models of health care delivery and financing.
• Oversees human resource management for the assigned area creating a culture of employee engagement. Ensures HR policies are administered consistently across function. Organizes department through appropriate structure and delegation of functions. Identifies succession planning needs within the team.
• Serves as process owner for all IT project phases, from strategy to hand-off, through completion. Works closely with sub process owners to define and complete the process. Ensures corporate initiatives derived from strategies are assigned a project manager as appropriate and ensures the business case is understood and managed, timelines and other required deliverables are developed and met. Supports and drives corporate initiatives through appropriate governance structures.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Direct Reporting

• Enterprise architecture, entire IT environment, including applications, integration, network, data center, etc.
• Data center, compute, storage, backup and recovery
• Cloud strategy and technology
• Network (LAN and WAN)
• Telephony - strategy and implementation, including mobile
• End point computing design, configuration, and delivery
• Strong Analytic skills to support SLA/Operational metrics
• Supports a Process improvement environment

Education

• Master's degree

Experience

• Ten years' experience, with five years' in leadership

SSM Health is a nationally recognized Catholic, not-for-profit, integrated delivery system serving the comprehensive health needs of communities in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin.

To request additional information, confidentially submit your interest, or nominate a fellow colleague, please contact:

Angela Jones
Executive Talent Acquisition
Angela.Jones1@ssmhealth.com

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