Job Description
The Director of Information Technologies is responsible for planning designing and implementing organization wide information systems and technologies. Other responsibilities include research, development and application of new information system technologiesto support the goals of managing and operating the organization.
Responsibilities
- A technology leader with ability to grasp complex customer requirements and translate them into clear technical solutions.
- Ability to articulate and explain complex issuesboth in written form and orally.
- Design and test technical architecture and solutions
- Create and deploy successful creative technology solutions for wider adoption using latest and best technology.
- Passionate technologist consumed by learning trends and technologies that could be game changers.
- Assurance that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices have been applied correctly to the proposed solution.
- The solution delivered will be more detailed than the solution architecture, and will be consistent with the solution design, Platform blueprints and roadmaps, and in compliance with the platform standards.
- Has worked and will work on different layers of the system from database to the service layers to the front-end layers (Full stack).
- Partner with multiple delivery teams operating in Agile fashion to ensure solutions built are aligned to the long-term targets.
- Candidates will be expected to immediately contribute to critical Time Keeping-related efforts in the Healthcare space-
- Drive innovation such as changes in the methods, processes and guidelines within the customer organization or internally.
- Extensive experience of solutioning and leading healthcare related projects.
- Provides overall technical leadership within a structure that is consistently expanding through organization wide system development and departmental utilization of microcomputers.
- Coordinates planning, design, implementation, and technical support of organization wide information systems, networks, and departmental applications.
- Directs the development of the Information Technologies operating budget and maintains necessary controls to assure compliance with budgeted expenses, resources, and staff projections.
- Responsible for the development of organization wide systems standards (hardware, software, network systems) policies and procedures.
- Responsible for development and implementation of information systems disaster recovery plans.
- Develops staff and monitor programs to support production services including staffing, standards, productivity analysis, cost factors, benefits realization, and operations processing.
- Coordinates, develops, and executes program for continual measurement of the organization's information systems, and communication networks' performance and effectiveness.
- Ensures the provision of cost efficient information services and systems. Anticipate developments in fields of information technology. Write recommendations for management review of enhancements to existing systems through ongoing review.
- Completes required continuous training and education, including department specific requirements.
- Assists in the development of organization-wide systems standards (hardware, software, network systems) policies and procedures.
- Performs other related duties
Qualifications
Education:
- Bachelors degree in Business Administration and/or Information Systems with course work in Computer Science or equivalent; Masters preferred.
Experience:
- 12+ years of experience in building solutions for greater adoption by user community
- Should have built at least three solutions supporting more than 10K user base
- An architect who has come from a full stack development background and is comfortable with all layers of the technology.
- Should have 2+ years of experience as a full stack software developers
- 5+ years experience in building productivity solutions and having Kronos Dimension is a plus
- 5 years of progressive information systems management experience preferably in a health care field.
- Should have 5+ years experience in stakeholder management
- Experience in developing SaaS solutions.
- 2+ years of experience in any industry leading Time and Attendance systems like Clairvia, Laborworkx, Accenture, Kronos, Dimensions
Non-Bargaining Unit, 290 - DTP Business Applications - MSH, Mount Sinai Hospital
About Us
Strength Through Diversity
The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai's unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:
- Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
- Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
- Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.
We work hard to acquire and retain the best people and to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to professional advance. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care.
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"About the Mount Sinai Health System:
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time - discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients' medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report's "Best Children's Hospitals" ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country's best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek's "The World's Best Smart Hospitals" ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.
The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism."
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