Network & Data Center Infrastructure Leader

Albany Medical Center; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 147,000 - 234,000; Full time

Job summary

Albany Med Health System is seeking a Director of Network and Data Center Infrastructure to lead architecture, design, engineering, and lifecycle management of enterprise network and data center platforms. The role drives hybrid-cloud strategy, ensures security, reliability, and cost-effectiveness, and partners with clinical and business leaders to align IT infrastructure with organizational priorities.

The Director oversees architectural decisions, governance, vendor relationships, and teams

Responsibilities

• Present architecture decisions, investment options, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to executives, governance bodies, technical teams, and customers.
• Build partnerships with clinical, business, application, security, facilities, biomedical, and service-management leaders to translate requirements into resilient and supportable infrastructure solutions.
• Assign accountable design authorities and ensure engineers produce complete documentation, implementation plans, validation plans, operational runbooks, monitoring requirements, rollback procedures, and knowledge-transfer materials.
• Lead, coach, and develop network and data center engineering teams, client server team and datacenter team; establish role clarity, succession plans, cross-training, technical standards, and professional development paths.

Job description

Albany Med Health System is seeking a Director of Network and Data Center Infrastructure to lead architecture, design, engineering, and lifecycle management of enterprise network and data center platforms. The role drives hybrid-cloud strategy, ensures security, reliability, and cost-effectiveness, and partners with clinical and business leaders to align IT infrastructure with organizational priorities.

The Director oversees architectural decisions, governance, vendor relationships, and teams