Chief Technology Officer

Deseret Mutual Benefit Administrators (DMBA); Salt Lake City (UT); Hybrid; USD 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Medical, vision & dental benefits

401(k) with company match

Paid leave & holidays

Wellness program & on-site gym

Tuition reimbursement

Career development & training

Hybrid work schedule

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Deseret Mutual Benefit Administrators (DMBA) seeks a dynamic Vice President and Chief Technology Officer to lead our technology strategy, security, and AI roadmap. This executive will partner with the Board and senior leaders to enhance customer experience, resilience, and cost efficiency across health, retirement, and related businesses.

The role requires a strong people leader who builds teams, drives accountability, and fosters a culture of responsible innovation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in a related field.
• Minimum 15 years in information technology.
• Minimum 5 years in an executive C-Suite role.
• Proven experience in fiduciary or heavily regulated environments.
• Experience with ERISA, HIPAA, SOC 1/2, HITRUST and similar frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain an enterprise technology and AI roadmap aligned with DMBA's objectives.
• Advise Board on technology opportunities, risk, and investments.
• Establish governance for AI solutions including privacy, security, and bias controls.
• Architect cybersecurity, privacy, disaster recovery, and business continuity frameworks.
• Oversee cloud and on-premises infrastructure, DevOps, and IT operations.
• Lead delivery and configuration of internal and customer-facing applications and AI-enabled solutions.
• Build data governance, analytics, and responsible AI capabilities across data domains.
• Lead a large, multi-disciplinary technology team and foster accountability and innovation.

Skills

Executive leadership

Enterprise architecture

Cloud-native strategies

Regulatory compliance

AI governance

Vendor management

Security

Data governance

Budget management

Fiduciary environments

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field

Job description

DMBA's purpose is to support the mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its affiliates by helping our plan participants be healthy and prepare for retirement. DMBA began operations in 1970 and is now in its 56th year of supporting the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its mission.

DMBA is looking for a dynamic and experienced Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to provide strategic leadership and executive oversight of DMBA's technology ecosystem. As a C-suite executive and corporate officer, the CTO is accountable for the integrity, reliability, security, and strategic evolution of technology across the organization. The CTO is also expected to be a strong people leader who builds trust, develops leaders and teams, creates clarity and accountability, and fosters a collaborative and high-performing culture. The CTO collaborates with other technology and business leaders to deliver an enterprise technology and artificial intelligence (AI) roadmap that improves the customer experience, strengthens operational resilience, increases cost efficiency, and supports responsible innovation across DMBA's health, retirement, and other lines of business. The CTO will lead enterprise technology strategy, infrastructure, software development and configuration, data and analytics, AI strategy, implementation and governance, technology vendor management, and technology workforce development. The CTO also collaborates with and supports the cybersecurity function, which reports directly to the President and Chief Executive Officer. The CTO will ensure that AI solutions are selected, developed, deployed, and monitored in accordance with security, privacy, regulatory, fiduciary, ethical, and business requirements, with appropriate human oversight and measurable value.

This is a hybrid position requiring a minimum of two days in the office each week.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with technology and business leaders to develop and maintain an enterprise technology and AI roadmap aligned with DMBA's strategic objectives.
• Advise the Board and senior leadership on technology and AI opportunities, fiduciary obligations, risk posture, regulatory compliance, and major investment priorities related to technology
• Establish governance for the responsible evaluation, approval, implementation, use, monitoring, and retirement of AI solutions, including controls for privacy, security, data quality, explainability, bias, human oversight, and third-party risk.
• Architect and enforce enterprise cybersecurity, privacy, incident response, disaster recovery, and business continuity frameworks that safeguard client assets and sensitive data and meet or exceed ERISA, HIPAA, SOC 1/2, HITRUST, and other applicable requirements.
• Incorporate AI-specific security and risk controls, including protection against data leakage, unauthorized model access, inaccurate outputs, and emerging AI-enabled threats.
• Oversee cloud and on-premises infrastructure, systems administration, help-desk services, network services, DevOps practices, automated IT operations, and service-level agreements.
• Maintain 99.99% availability for mission-critical systems that process contributions, distributions, and claims, and use AI-enabled automation and operational intelligence where appropriate to improve reliability and service delivery.
• Lead the end-to-end delivery and configuration of internal and customer-facing applications, claims-payment engines, pension-administration platforms, integrations, and AI-enabled solutions.
• Establish secure development, testing, release, and monitoring practices that improve quality, reduce errors, accelerate time to market, support appropriate human review, and enhance member satisfaction.
• Build and mature enterprise data governance, business intelligence, advanced analytics, and responsible AI capabilities by integrating financial, actuarial, clinical, and operational data.
• Deliver real-time dashboards, predictive analytics, self-service reporting, and approved AI tools while maintaining data quality, privacy, access, retention, and model-performance standards.
• Responsible for technology investments totaling hundreds of millions of dollars annually through disciplined governance, ROI evaluation, vendor negotiation, and total-cost-of-ownership management.
• Recruit, mentor, develop, and retain a multidisciplinary technology team; build AI literacy and role-appropriate capability; and foster a culture of accountability, innovation, security, and continuous improvement.
• Serve as a contributing member of the Senior Management Committee, assist with company-wide strategic objectives and policies, and lead key company initiatives as assigned.

Qualifications And Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field.
• A minimum of 15 years of experience in information technology.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in an executive C-Suite leadership role.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in a fiduciary or heavily regulated environment.
• Proven success with multi-year vendor implementations and migrations.
• Deep domain expertise in 401(k)/pension administration and/or health-insurance technology platforms is preferred.
• Proven experience implementing ERISA, HIPAA, SOC 1/2, HITRUST, and other regulatory frameworks.
• Hands-on knowledge of enterprise architecture patterns, cloud-native strategies, DevOps/CI-CD pipelines, and modern business intelligence toolchains.
• Strong financial acumen, vendor negotiation experience, and budget-management capabilities.
• Demonstrated experience implementing enterprise AI capabilities with a positive ROI, including use-case prioritization, build-versus-buy decisions, integration, change management, adoption, performance monitoring, and value realization.
• Working knowledge of AI governance and risk-management practices, including data privacy, cybersecurity, model risk, responsible use, human oversight, and third-party AI vendor controls.
• Demonstrated ability to address complex, cross-functional challenges that materially affect business continuity, compliance, and customer trust.
• Demonstrated success as a people leader, including developing leaders, strengthening teams, building trust and accountability, navigating organizational change, and creating an environment where employees can grow and perform at a high level.
• Ability to make data-informed decisions regarding technology investments, risk mitigation, resource allocation, and AI opportunities.
• Industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, or PMP are preferred.
• Experience leading enterprise AI governance and implementation in partnership with business leaders, Legal, Compliance, Risk, and Information Security.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary technology functions, including Security, Development, Business Intelligence, Operations, Systems, and Governance.
• Strong experience leading a large department with multi-faceted teams and partnering with other departments through effective listening, collaboration, and partnership to improve outcomes and accomplished objectives.

What We Offer

• Competitive pay.
• Generous medical, vision and dental benefits with competitive premiums.
• Generous retirement planning: including 401(k) company match, Employer Discretionary Retirement Contribution (EDRC), life insurance, and full service Financial Planners onsite at no cost.
• Generous paid leave plan that starts accruing your first day, your birthday off, additional sick leave and 12 paid holidays.
• Award winning wellness program with health coaching, ability to earn 3 additional days off a year, fun activities and an onsite gym.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Career development through company sponsored programs and over 5000 on-demand online training courses.
• Hybrid work schedules available depending on position.
• Employee Assistance Program.