Senior Health IT Consultant

Tech Firefly; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 136,000 - 194,000; Part time

Job summary

Tech Firefly seeks a Senior Health IT Consultant to partner with a major academic medical center. You will translate a technology roadmap into a sequenced, dependency-mapped execution plan and deliver a PM-ready blueprint for Year 1 (2026–2027).

You’ll own the strategic/stakeholder layer, conduct executive interviews, drive prioritization across four workstreams, and manage the client relationship through handoff and transition to project managers; remote work with monthly on-site SF visits and

Qualifications

• 10+ years in health IT strategy, advisory, or consulting — ideal with academic medical centers or integrated health systems.
• Experience advising C-suite and VP-level health system executives on technology strategy and roadmap decisions.
• Familiarity with Epic and broader health IT ecosystem—digital infrastructure, clinical communications, smart room, inpatient tech.

Responsibilities

• Lead stakeholder interviews and facilitation sessions with health system leadership (CIO, CNIO, Executive Director).
• Drive technology prioritization, procurement sequencing, and roadmap decisions across four Year 1 workstreams: Digital Infrastructure, Enterprise Platform Alignment, EHR + Integration Readiness, and Smart Room Lite Pilots.
• Own the narrative and synthesis — turn findings and dependency analysis into the Healthcare Technology Execution Blueprint.
• Serve as the primary relationship holder with the client leadership team throughout the engagement.
• Co-produce the PM-ready handoff package and lead the transition briefing with incoming project managers.
• Collaborate daily with the Senior Solutions Architect to ensure strategic and technical work advances in parallel.

Skills

Stakeholder facilitation

Health IT strategy

Roadmap planning

Executive communication

Client relationship management

PM handoff readiness

Tools

Epic

Job description

We are partnered with a large academic medical center to develop a PM-ready Healthcare Technology Execution Blueprint for Year 1 (2026 to 2027). The Senior Health IT Consultant owns the strategic and stakeholder layer -- translating an existing technology roadmap into a sequenced, dependency mapped execution plan ready for PM handoff by July 2026.

3MonthEngagement

Remote(willrequiretravel1-2xpermonthfor3-4dayspervisit)inSanFrancisco

Pay:Startingat$120/hour

What you'll own

• Lead all stakeholder interviews and facilitation sessions with health system leadership, including the CIO, CNIO, and Executive Director of Health Tech Solutions
• Drive technology prioritization, procurement sequencing, and roadmap decisions across four Year 1 workstreams: Digital Infrastructure, Enterprise Platform Alignment, EHR + Integration Readiness, and Smart Room Lite Pilots
• Own the narrative and synthesis — turn findings, assessments, and dependency analysis into the Healthcare Technology Execution Blueprint
• Serve as the primary relationship holder with the client leadership team throughout the engagement
• Co-produce the PM-ready handoff package and lead the transition briefing with incoming project managers
• Collaborate daily with the Senior Solutions Architect to ensure strategic and technical work advances in parallel

Key deliverables you'll drive

• Current state assessment across all healthcare technology domains
• Technology prioritization by domain, grounded in Epic-first evaluation framework
• Procurement sequencing and vendor shortlist by domain
• Year 1 Execution Plan — sequenced, dependency-mapped, PM-ready
• Executive Briefing Summary for leadership and board socialization
• Years 2–3 Directional Outline as design context for Year 1 decisions

• 10+ years in health IT strategy, advisory, or consulting — ideally with large academic medical centers or integrated health systems
• Demonstrated experience advising C-suite and VP-level health system executives (CIO, CNIO, CMO) on technology strategy and roadmap decisions
• Strong familiarity with Epic and the broader health IT ecosystem — digital infrastructure, clinical communications, smart room, and inpatient technology
• Proven ability to facilitate complex, multi-stakeholder alignment sessions and drive consensus on competing priorities
• Experience translating ambiguous strategic intent into structured, actionable execution plans
• Excellent written communication — able to produce executive-quality deliverables under tight timelines
• Comfortable working fast in a fixed-timeline engagement without sacrificing rigor

Nice to have

• Experience with smart room, RTLS, ambient clinical workflow, or inpatient experience technologies
• Prior work at or with large academic medical centers or Magnet-designated healthsystems
• PMP, FHIMSS, or equivalent credentialnt clinical workflow, or inpatient experience technologies

• Prior work at or with large academic medical centers or Magnet-designated healthsystems
• PMP, FHIMSS, or equivalent credential