Director Information Technology

Sentara Health Plans; Virginia Beach, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision plans

401k/403B with Employer Match

Paid Time Off and Sick Leave

Parental & Family Caregiver Leave

Life Insurance

Discretionary bonus potential

Job summary

Sentara Health Plans is seeking a Director of Salesforce and Customer Platforms to lead the strategy and modernization of our Salesforce estate and related digital customer platforms. This executive role sits in the Digital Organization and reports to the Chief Digital Officer, focusing on architecture, delivery, and financial stewardship across a healthcare payer environment.

You will own platform strategy and a multi-year roadmap, balancing make/buy decisions, licensing, and vendor

Qualifications

• Senior technology leader responsible for Salesforce and customer platforms.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and multi-million dollar budgets.
• Knowledge of healthcare or regulated industries preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own platform strategy, roadmap, and modernization of Salesforce estate.
• Lead delivery across mixed teams of employees, contractors, and partners.
• Ensure security, privacy, and compliance in a regulated healthcare environment.
• Manage platform budgets, licensing, and vendor negotiations.
• Drive measurable business outcomes through platform architecture and governance.

Skills

Salesforce leadership

Delivery leadership

Budget ownership

Healthcare/regulatory experience

Executive presence

Education

Bachelor's degree + 8 years relevant experience

10 years experience without degree

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

City/State Virginia Beach, VA

Work Shift First (Days)

Overview: Overview Director, Salesforce and Customer Platforms Sentara Health | Digital Organization | Remote, United States

The opportunity Sentara Health, an integrated not-for-profit health system with a health plan serving roughly one million members, is hiring a Director of Salesforce and Customer Platforms. The role sits in the Digital organization and reports directly to the Chief Digital Officer. This is not a Salesforce administration or development management job. It is a broad technology leadership role accountable for the strategy, architecture, delivery, operation, modernization, and economic stewardship of the Salesforce estate and related digital customer platforms for a healthcare payer. The platforms you run are how our health plan serves members, supports providers, equips brokers and employer groups, and powers sales and customer service.

Mission Lead Salesforce and related digital customer platforms so that customer service, sales, broker, employer, member, and provider capabilities are reliable, secure, integrated, financially responsible, and aligned to measurable business outcomes. Own the platform economics as seriously as the platform architecture. Modernize deliberately, including automation and AI-enabled service, while keeping daily operations boringly dependable.

What you will own

• Platform strategy and architecture A multi-year roadmap for the Salesforce estate (service, health, marketing, and experience portal workloads) and adjacent customer-facing SaaS platforms.
• Build, buy, consolidate, and retire decisions that keep the portfolio rationalized and the license posture defensible.
• Delivery Release train and program delivery across a mixed organization of employees, contractors, managed services partners, and distributed or offshore delivery teams.
• Predictable, transparent delivery: honest estimates, visible tradeoffs, and commitments that hold.
• Operations and trust Reliability, incident and release management, and platform health for systems that front-line service teams depend on every hour.
• Security, privacy, and compliance in a regulated healthcare environment, in partnership with cyber and compliance teams.
• Integration Clean, well-governed integration with core administration platforms, contact center and telephony, conversational AI, and enterprise data, partnering closely with the leaders who own those domains.
• Financial stewardship A multimillion dollar run and change budget: forecasting, variance management, license and subscription optimization, and unit economics that stand up to finance review.
• Vendor and partner management Commercial and delivery relationships with Salesforce, systems integrators, and managed services and SaaS providers; outcomes-based agreements and performance accountability.
• People leadership Multiple managers and cross-functional teams spanning release train leadership, program and project management, and product and delivery roles. Develop leaders, retain scarce skills, and keep a mixed workforce model healthy.
• Modernization Automation, AI-enabled service and self-service, and platform simplification that measurably reduce cost to serve and improve customer experience.

What success looks like in year one

• Operations stay stable through peak periods, including open enrollment.
• A credible platform roadmap and a rationalized license and contract posture, with savings identified and banked.
• Delivery commitments met, with estimation and reporting discipline finance trusts.
• Measurable service outcomes: higher self-service containment, better first-contact resolution support, faster cycle times for business-requested change.
• A stable, engaged leadership team through the transition.

What you bring

• Senior technology leadership of an enterprise Salesforce or comparable customer platform portfolio, at director level or equivalent scope.
• Delivery leadership over mixed teams of employees, contractors, and managed services or offshore partners.
• Ownership of platform budgets at multimillion dollar scale, including license optimization and vendor negotiation.
• Experience in healthcare, insurance, or another regulated, data-sensitive industry; payer or health plan experience strongly preferred.
• Fluency across the Salesforce platform (service, health, marketing, and portal workloads) at the architecture and roadmap level; you do not need to be a hands-on developer, but you must not be fooled by one.
• Executive presence: you can defend a roadmap, a budget, and a hard tradeoff in the same meeting.

Education and Experience

Bachelor's degree with 8 years of relevant experience, or 10 years without a degree; 5 years of leadership experience.

Work model and compensation

Remote within the United States. Competitive director-level compensation with annual bonus target and full Sentara benefits; range shared by recruiting.

Benefits

• Caring For Your Family and Your Career
• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000
• Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
• Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
• Emergency Backup Care
• Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans
• Life Insurance
• 401k/403B with Employer Match
• Tuition Assistance – $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
• Student Debt Pay Down – $10,000
• Pet Insurance
• Legal Resources Plan
• Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met.

Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves. In support of our mission “to improve health every day,” this is a tobacco-free environment.

For positions that are available as remote work, Sentara Health employs associates in the following states: Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

Sentara Health is a Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina based not-for-profit integrated healthcare provider that has been in business for over 131 years. Offering hundreds of sites of care including 12 hospitals, PACE, home health, hospice, medical groups, imaging services, therapy, outpatient surgery centers, and an 858,000 member health plan.

The people of the communities that we serve have nominated Sentara “Employer of Choice” for over ten years. U.S. News and World Report has recognized Sentara as having the Best Hospitals for 15+ years. Sentara offers professional development and a continued employment philosophy!