Principal Technology Integration Advisor

Good Samaritan Society; Sioux Falls, Northern (SD, KY); Hybrid; USD 63,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Work/life balance

Generous time off

Job summary

Sanford Health in Sioux Falls seeks a senior IT Transformation leader to guide the design, installation, modification, and operation of information systems across a portfolio. You will collaborate with the Chief Technology and Digital Officer and Operations leaders to evaluate AI opportunities and vendor capabilities.

This role leads infrastructure capacity planning, disaster recovery, and program governance, ensuring alignment with business goals and budgets; a strong background in IT

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required with 15+ years in IT/infrastructure leadership or hands-on roles.
• Master’s degree with 10+ years experience may substitute.

Responsibilities

• Provide principal technical leadership to plan design, installation, and operation of information systems.
• Lead system rationalization, integration, and data center strategy across projects.
• Collaborate with senior leaders to assess AI/automation opportunities and vendor capabilities.
• Develop enterprise roadmaps, cost estimates, and risk mitigation plans.

Skills

IT leadership

Infrastructure leadership

Technical due diligence

Vendor evaluation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT

Master’s degree in IT

Job description

Careers With Purpose

Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America’s heartland.

Facility: Stevens Ctr
Location: Sioux Falls, SD
Address: 900 East 54th St N, Sioux Falls, SD 57104, USA
Shift: 8 Hours - Day Shifts
Job Schedule: Full time
Weekly Hours: 40.00
Salary Range: $46.00 - $76.00
Pay Info: Pay starts at $46 and increases according to years of applicable experience.

Department Details

This position will be part of Sanford Health’s new Transformation area, helping advance enterprise priorities through technology integration, capability assessment, and cross-functional execution. Provides principal level technical leadership to facilitate planning and directing the design, installation, modification, and operation of information systems.

Works directly with the Chief Technology and Digital Officer to compare vendors and assess their capabilities against Sanford Health’s strategic, operational, technical, and financial needs. Partners directly with Operations leaders to identify and vet artificial intelligence (AI) and automation opportunities, clarify business value and readiness, and support informed prioritization. Provides light project management and status tracking across evaluations and initiatives, including documenting decisions, monitoring milestones, coordinating follow-up actions, and communicating progress, risks, dependencies, and next steps to key stakeholders.

Demonstrated experience evaluating, prioritizing, or supporting artificial intelligence, automation, or emerging technology opportunities highly preferred.

Experience partnering with vendors to compare capabilities, evaluate solution fit, review roadmaps, clarify requirements, and support informed technology selection decisions also highly preferred.

Job Summary

Provides principal level technical leadership to facilitate planning and directing the design, installation, modification, and operation of information systems. Leads the technical components of system rationalization and integration across a portfolio of systems and infrastructure. Evaluates the cost benefit analysis and business strategic alignment of system consolidation and rationalization efforts. Leads the analysis, planning and execution of data center strategy, consolidation and migration. Prepares and implements plans for systems maintenance, production activities, and necessary support resources. Oversees and leads the infrastructure capacity planning process by collaborating with system owners and vendors to align system capacity with business plans. Prepares cost estimates for current and proposed projects, reflecting the technical, process and staff requirements.

Responsible for the management and oversight of multiple inter-dependent infrastructure and system integration projects. Oversees all aspects of assigned infrastructure integration projects throughout project lifecycles to ensure completion and alignment to scope, quality, time and financial requirements.

Leads the infrastructure organization through disaster recovery, system resiliency and single-point of failure analysis, planning and preparedness. Builds, runs and maintains processes to support a living infrastructure disaster plan that aligns with critical business needs. Ensures data recovery, maintenance, data integrity and space requirements are met across a variety of platforms.

Serves as the senior most expert resource to information technology (IT) groups in planning the resource requirements for systems under development. Performs technical due diligence in system acquisition scenarios. Provides executive leaders with analysis, insights, gaps, risks and opportunities for consideration in system acquisition. Develops and proposes enterprise system roadmaps. Analyzes systems and future state designs for critical dependencies and creates proposals, cost estimates and execution plans. Creates and executes on risk mitigation and related system integrations, migrations and consolidations.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree required with fifteen years information technology and infrastructure leadership and/or hands-on experience. Also will consider Master’s degree with ten years experience.

Benefits

Sanford offers an attractive benefits package for qualifying full-time and part-time employees. Depending on eligibility, a variety of benefits include health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, work/life balance benefits, and a generous time off package to maintain a healthy home-work balance. For more information about Total Rewards, visit https://sanfordcareers.com/benefits .

Sanford is an EEO/AA Employer M/F/Disability/Vet. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application, please call 1-877-673-0854 or send an email to [e-mail] .

Sanford has a Drug Free Workplace Policy. An accepted offer will require a drug screen and pre-employment background screening as a condition of employment.

Req Number: R-0274882
Job Function: Information Technology
Featured: No