CTO, Radiology Tech & AI Strategy

University Radiology Group; East Brunswick Township (NJ); On-site; USD 400,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

University Radiology seeks a Chief Technology Officer to lead technology strategy and execution from our East Brunswick, NJ offices. You will own the radiology tech stack (PACS/RIS/VNA, AI tools), drive cybersecurity, data strategy, and vendor management to support excellent patient care and operational growth.

You will collaborate with physicians and executives, manage budgets, and guide IT integration for acquisitions, while reporting to the Board of Managers and physician leadership.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive informatics leadership, including 5+ years in a senior IT role.
• Deep hands-on experience with radiology systems: PACS, RIS, VNA, and DICOM/HL7 interoperability.
• Experience owning enterprise cybersecurity programs in a HIPAA-regulated environment.
• Experience managing IT budgets, capital planning, and vendor/contract negotiation at enterprise scale.
• Prior experience in radiology practice, imaging center network, teleradiology group, or diagnostic services company preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the full radiology technology stack: PACS, RIS, VNA, dictation/speech recognition, reporting and critical results communication, worklist and peer-review tools, and referring-physician portals.
• Evaluate, select, and implement radiologist and technologist workflow tools that reduce click burden, improve turnaround time, and support subspecialty and multi-site worklist distribution.
• Lead system upgrades, migrations, and downtime/disaster-recovery planning for all clinical systems.
• Build and govern the practice's AI strategy: triage/detection algorithms, reporting automation, and operational AI.
• Own AI vendor evaluation, clinical validation partnership with radiology leadership, integration into PACS/RIS workflow, and performance monitoring post-deployment.
• Design and maintain enterprise infrastructure: network, storage, compute, cloud strategy, and image storage/archival economics at scale.
• Own the cybersecurity program end-to-end: risk assessment, HIPAA/HITECH compliance, incident response, endpoint and network security, vendor security review, and cyber-insurance readiness.
• Establish and monitor uptime, performance, and security KPIs; report risk posture and system health to the CEO and Board.
• Serve as a core member of the executive team shaping overall practice strategy, with technology and informatics as a differentiator; reporting to the Partners and Board of Managers.

Skills

Informatics leadership

Cybersecurity (HIPAA)

Budget management

Vendor negotiation

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science / information systems / healthcare IT

MBA or MS preferred

Tools

PACS/RIS/VNA interoperability

DICOM/HL7 interoperability

Job description

University Radiology seeks a Chief Technology Officer to lead technology strategy and execution from our East Brunswick, NJ offices. You will own the radiology tech stack (PACS/RIS/VNA, AI tools), drive cybersecurity, data strategy, and vendor management to support excellent patient care and operational growth.

You will collaborate with physicians and executives, manage budgets, and guide IT integration for acquisitions, while reporting to the Board of Managers and physician leadership.