Chief AI & Software Transformation Officer

Harris Computer; Alabama; On-site; USD 175,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Plenty of opportunities to grow your事业

Job summary

MEDHOST, a division of Harris, seeks a technology executive to lead software engineering and advance MEDHOST’s technology and AI strategy across the product and platform portfolio. You will build high-performing engineering teams and drive AI-first innovation across AI-DLC and product offerings.

The role requires extensive leadership in modern software practices, healthcare IT experience, and a proven ability to scale teams while aligning technology with business goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline.
• 15+ years of progressive technology experience including 8+ years of progressive software engineering leadership experience and 5+ years in senior leadership roles leading large software engineering organizations.
• 3-5+ years’ experience with EHR and healthcare software environments.
• Demonstrated success leading modernization and software platform transformation initiatives.
• Deep expertise in modern software engineering practices, distributed systems, APIs, microservices, cloud platforms, and enterprise architecture.
• Proven experience implementing AI and machine learning capabilities within enterprise products and AI-DLC workflows.
• Strong understanding of Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Agentic AI frameworks, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), AI orchestration, and AI governance.
• Experience working within highly regulated industries and navigating complex security, privacy, and compliance requirements.
• Experience with Claude, OpenAI technologies, Microsoft Co-Pilot and AWS Bedrock a plus.
• Strong financial acumen with experience managing technology investment portfolios and business cases.
• Demonstrated ability to build and scale high-performance engineering organizations.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and scale a high-performing software engineering organization accountable for product delivery, technology evolution, security, reliability, and operational outcomes.
• Improve delivery predictability, developer productivity, software quality, resiliency, scalability, and cost effectiveness while balancing innovation, modernization, and commitments.
• Partner closely with executive leadership, product management, operations, and security to translate business strategy into executable technology priorities and investment decisions.
• Establish metrics and KPIs to measure strategic progress, software engineering effectiveness, AI adoption, and business impact.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities to create competitive advantage through innovation.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on technology and AI-related opportunities, risks, and industry trends.
• Execute the organization's AI-first transformation strategy across products, software engineering, and AI-DLC with a prioritized roadmap tied to measurable business and customer outcomes.
• Execute and continue to evolve the R&D department’s AI-DLC strategy incorporating industry best practices and new technology innovation to continue to increase engineering and process efficiencies through AI technology.
• Drive incorporation of AI-powered experiences into customer-facing products and enterprise workflows.
• Oversee planning, execution, governance, risks, dependencies, and resource allocation for strategic technology and AI initiatives across the product portfolio.
• Stay current on industry advancements across models, agent orchestration, best practices and other emerging technology innovations.
• Lead modernization of legacy applications, cloud platforms, APIs, and AI capabilities using advances in architecture and engineering approaches.
• Drive improvements in software delivery performance, quality, resiliency, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Govern technology standards and investment priorities; identifying opportunities where AI and emerging technologies can create measurable differentiation and operating leverage.

Skills

Software engineering leadership

Enterprise architecture

AI strategy

AI governance

Cloud platforms

Healthcare IT

Team scaling

Financial acumen

Generative AI / LLMs

AI orchestration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering/IT

Tools

Claude

OpenAI technologies

Microsoft Copilot

AWS Bedrock

Job description

MEDHOST, a division of Harris, seeks a technology executive to lead software engineering and advance MEDHOST’s technology and AI strategy across the product and platform portfolio. You will build high-performing engineering teams and drive AI-first innovation across AI-DLC and product offerings.

The role requires extensive leadership in modern software practices, healthcare IT experience, and a proven ability to scale teams while aligning technology with business goals.