System Vice President, Chief Technical Officer

Position Highlights:

Position: System Vice President, Chief Technical Officer

Location: Evanston, Warrenville and Arlington Heights

Full Time/Part Time: Full Time

Required Travel: Across all Endeavor Health sites

As the System Vice President, Chief Technology Officer at Endeavor Health, you will lead the enterprise technology strategy, including cloud strategy and infrastructure modernization, to transform and innovate IT operations. You will oversee the organization’s strategy, delivery, maintenance of infrastructure, cloud, and IT services in addition to overseeing the end-to-end roadmap the department’s vision, and growth plans. You will oversee technology programs to ensure employees, key stakeholders, and partners adapt to the latest technologies with ease. This role will also oversee the strategy for the IT service delivery, including Help Desk, Field Support, Desktop Support, and Service Now. In this key role, you will be responsible for making executive technology decisions on behalf of the organization, including managing a technology budget and making the necessary investments to align the organization with its vision for its technological needs.

What you will do:

Define the technology strategy, vision and roadmap in alignment with the organization’s business/digital strategy.  Including identify emerging technologies that would help the organization deliver its goals

Lead and decide which technologies to invest in and procure, including making the business case

Assess the potential risk of bringing new and emerging technologies into the organization and determine how to mitigate it

Collaborates with both business leaders and internal IT team members to understand customer and market requirements in order to translate them into products and services that enable new business models and drive strategic business outcomes

Run and maintain IT operations through all or some of the following: IT service management (ITSM), vendor management, shared IT services, data centers, networking, cloud, enterprise architecture, IT service delivery (e.g., help desk, call center) and security

Establishes the technical standard and processes and oversees quality assurance programs to ensure conformity with the organization’s quality standards

Maintains a well-communicated portfolio of projects, prioritized for a clear understanding of business requirement and strategy. Regularly reviews key projects from a progress standpoint; analyzes progress, financials, issues, and expectations

Establishes and manages risk and disaster preparedness activities including Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery procedures and regularly tests

Remains on top of technology trends, identifies opportunities for innovation and ensures the maintenance of organization leadership in the competitive landscape

Attract, retain, and develop information technology talent to ensure available talent to support IT

What you will need:

Education:

Required:

Bachelor’s degree in technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a relevant related field

Preferred:

Master’s degree in technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a relevant related field preferred.

Experience:

Required:

Twelve (12) or more years of experience in managing applications, or systems in a healthcare setup or related industries

Ten (10) or more years leadership experience

Preferred:

Fifteen (15) or more years of experience in managing applications, or systems in a healthcare setup or related industries.

Fifteen (15) or more years of leadership experience.

Unique or Preferred Skills:

Well versed in current technological trends and familiar with a variety of business concepts with an ability to apply those concepts to a diverse audience and align innovation efforts.

Ability to track and identify new technologies to solve complex business issues.

Possesses technical understanding and ability to track and identify new technologies in order to solve complex business issues and lead a team in recognizing / solving technical problems.  

Ability to manage strategic vendor and technology partner relationships.

Customer focused with the ability to lead / motivate, take initiative, and achieve results.

Exceptional team management skills.

Effective interpersonal skills, the ability to influence, and the power of persuasion.

Adaptive communication skills, a drive to tackle large organizational challenges, and demonstrated an ability to foster strong partnerships across an organization.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Excellent program management, organizational design, execution planning and control competency

Demonstrated ability to make independent decisions and manage conflicting priorities in a fast-paced environment; must be responsive and willing to take ownership of issues and drive solutions

Benefits (For full time or part time positions):

Career Pathways to Promote Professional Growth and Development

Various Medical, Dental, Pet and Vision options

Tuition Reimbursement

Free Parking

Wellness Program Savings Plan

Health Savings Account Options

Retirement Options with Company Match

Paid Time Off and Holiday Pay

Community Involvement Opportunities

Endeavor Health is a fully integrated healthcare delivery system committed to providing access to quality, vibrant, community-connected care, serving an area of more than 4.2 million residents across six northeast Illinois counties. Our more than 25,000 team members and more than 6,000 physicians aim to deliver transformative patient experiences and expert care close to home across more than 300 ambulatory locations and eight acute care hospitals – Edward (Naperville), Elmhurst, Evanston, Glenbrook (Glenview), Highland Park, Northwest Community (Arlington Heights) Skokie and Swedish (Chicago) – all recognized as Magnet hospitals for nursing excellence. For more information, visit www.endeavorhealth.org.  

When you work for Endeavor Health, you will be part of an organization that encourages its employees to achieve career goals and maximize their professional potential.

Please explore our website (www.endeavorhealth.org) to better understand how Endeavor Health delivers on its mission to “help everyone in our communities be their best”. 

Endeavor Health is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. Please refer to the main career page for more information.

Diversity, equity and inclusion is at the core of who we are; being there for our patients and each other with compassion, respect and empathy. We believe that our strength resides in our differences and in connecting our best to provide community-connected healthcare for all.

EOE: Race/Color/Sex/Sexual Orientation/ Gender Identity/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Vets, VEVRRA Federal Contractor.