Clinical Applications Sr. Director, Acute, Ambulatory, and Interventional Services

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Day - 08 Hour (United States of America)

"The Clinical Applications Sr. Director for Acutem, Ambulatory, and Interventional Services will: '-Lead technology strategy and modernization across Acute Care/ED/L&D, PeriOp/Interventional/CV-IT/CathLab, and Ambulatory, spanning EpicCare Inpatient, ASAP, Stork, Bugsy, Epic OpTime, Anesthesia, Cupid, Lumens, EpicCare Ambulatory, Nurse Triage, and device platforms like Ceribell, VascuPRO, and CardioCare. - Set direction across a large and an interconnected set of care areas in Clinical Applications, where a patient's journey moves fluidly between acute, interventional, and ambulatory settings, and a change or gap in one area ripples into the others. Treat these three domains as one connected system of care, keeping roadmaps and priorities in sync. - Own vendor strategy across the broad vendor set in Clinical Applications, leading negotiation and total cost of ownership strategy at a multi-domain scale."

This is a Stanford Health Care job.

A Brief Overview The Senior Director – IT Clinical Applications is accountable for the strategic direction and modernization of technology across multiple application domains or an enterprise-wide function within Clinical Applications. This role leads Directors, Managers, and Senior Managers across a broader portfolio, driving enterprise-level long-range planning, technical debt reduction, and platform modernization initiatives that span domains rather than sit within any single one. The Senior Director is a leading voice on the responsible adoption of AI within Clinical Applications, shaping direction for AI use across the portfolio as the organization's enterprise AI governance model continues to take shape, and ensuring domain-level AI initiatives ladder up to a coherent, enterprise-wide strategy rather than developing in isolation. This position reports to an Executive Director or Vice President, depending on area, and serves as a key advisor and executive-facing representative on the modernization, risk, and strategic direction of the broader application portfolio.

Locations Stanford Health Care

What you will do • Strategic Leadership & Modernization • Co-develop with other directors the enterprise-level long-range roadmap across multiple domains, sequencing technical debt reduction and platform modernization investments against clinical and operational priorities. • Collaborate to set the enterprise approach for evaluating and prioritizing legacy remediation and modernization, ensuring consistency across Directors and domains. • Maintain a forward-looking view of platform, vendor, and market capabilities that could materially change the portfolio's modernization roadmap. • Advise executive IT and Operations leadership on portfolio-wide modernization tradeoffs and investment priorities. • AI Leadership • Serve as a leading voice on AI adoption within Clinical Applications, shaping direction across the portfolio as enterprise AI governance structures continue to mature. • Ensure AI initiatives across domains ladder up to a coherent enterprise strategy rather than developing independently, partnering with Directors to align domain-level pilots to that strategy. • Represent Clinical Applications in cross-functional discussions shaping the organization's emerging AI governance approach. • Evaluate enterprise-scale AI opportunities and partner with Directors to translate them into domain-level execution. • People Leadership • Lead, coach, and develop Directors, Managers, and/or Senior Managers across the portfolio. • Hire, evaluate the performance of, and implement corrective action — up to and including termination — for assigned leaders. • Own succession planning across the broader portfolio, growing manager capabilities and developing future enterprise leaders. • Planning & Resourcing • Own budget across a broad portfolio of applications and services, including the investment case for modernization and technical debt reduction; Own cost center budgeting and participate in enterprise application portfolio budgeting. • Lead vendor strategy and contract negotiation at an enterprise or multi-domain scale. • Forecast enterprise technology and workforce trends and translate them into portfolio-level resourcing plans. • Requirements, Design & Governance • Collaboratively shape the requirements-gathering and solution-design standards that Directors apply within their domains. • Adjudicate conflicting requirements and priorities that arise across domains or Directors. • Represent Clinical Applications in the organization's enterprise governance forums as they are established, helping to shape their charter and decision rights. • Set enterprise-level procedures and standards consistent with hospital and departmental policy. Monitor adherence. • Delivery & Performance • Own delivery and SLA outcomes across the broader portfolio; ensure consistent incident, problem, maintenance, and enhancement practices across domains. • Serve as executive-facing point of contact for incidents that span multiple domains or carry enterprise-level risk. • Develop and publish portfolio-level metrics, including measurable reduction of technical debt across domains over time; drive continuous improvement. • Ensure high levels of customer satisfaction among supported clinicians and staff across the portfolio.

Education Qualifications • Bachelor's Degree in an applicable field required. • Master’s Degree preferred.

Experience Qualifications • Twelve (12)+ years of progressively responsible and directly related work experience required, including demonstrated success as a Director – IT Clinical Applications or equivalent. • Demonstrated breadth required — success as a Director across more than one application domain, or through a major enterprise-level mo

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