Required Skills & Experience
Must-Haves
- Master's degree in IT, Health Informatics, Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, or related field.
- 8+ years of senior IT leadership experience within an acute care hospital, health system, or academic medical center.
- Experience serving as a Deputy CIO, Assistant CIO, VP of IT, Executive Director of IT, Director of IT Operations, or similar enterprise IT leadership role.
- Strong experience establishing / leading hospital IT operations, infrastructure modernization, cybersecurity governance, disaster recovery and high-availability initiatives, service delivery, and vendor management.
- Demonstrated leadership of major EHR implementations, migrations, optimizations, or transformations, with strong preference for Cerner experience.
- Proven executive presence with the ability to influence senior leadership, establish strategic direction, and drive accountability across large organizations.
- Experience leading organizational transformation and technology modernization initiatives within resource-constrained healthcare environments.
Job Description
Overview: Insight Global is seeking a Deputy Chief Information Officer (DCIO) to serve as the CIO's right-hand leader and oversee the day-to-day operations of the IT organization. This individual will provide strategic, operational, and technological leadership across hospital technology services while helping modernize the IT environment, strengthen cybersecurity and infrastructure operations, improve service delivery, and support the hospital's ongoing EHR transformation.
The DCIO will partner closely with executive leadership, clinical stakeholders, and department leaders to drive operational excellence, technology modernization, organizational accountability, and patient care improvement. The ideal candidate will bring significant experience leading healthcare IT transformation initiatives within complex hospital environments and will serve as the CIO's proxy in driving execution across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Act as the operational leader for all hospital IT functions, including infrastructure, service desk, cybersecurity, enterprise applications, EHR platforms, and vendor management.
- Serve as the CIO's trusted deputy and proxy, driving execution, accountability, and alignment across the IT organization.
- Lead large-scale technology transformation initiatives, including EHR implementations, upgrades, optimizations, and operational readiness efforts, with a strong focus on Cerner and clinical technology environments.
- Oversee infrastructure modernization initiatives, including disaster recovery, high availability, cybersecurity governance, cloud strategy, and technology risk mitigation.
- Establish and improve ITIL-based service delivery processes, SLAs, governance structures, and operational accountability measures.
- Develop and execute a strategic technology roadmap that aligns hospital operations, clinical priorities, constraints, and long-term organizational objectives.
- Partner with executive leadership, clinical stakeholders, compliance, finance, and operational leaders to ensure technology investments support patient care, operational excellence, and organizational growth.
- Lead IT budgeting, workforce planning, succession planning, contract negotiations, and vendor management to maximize performance and resource utilization.
- Build, mentor, and develop IT leadership teams while fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, innovation, and execution.
- Drive modernization efforts across infrastructure, cybersecurity, service delivery, and clinical applications while helping position the organization for future growth and transformation.