Vice President, Enterprise Business Platforms, Membership Enrollment & Billing

Centene Corporation; Missouri; Hybrid; USD 172,000 - 327,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Health insurance

401K & stock plan

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Flexible work schedule

Job summary

Centene Corporation is seeking a seasoned IT leader to oversee a large department, drive staff development, and align technology initiatives with business goals in Missouri.

You will shape budgets, set priorities, coordinate with senior leaders and steer programs across enrollment, billing and payments platforms. The role emphasizes reliability, continuous improvement and delivering measurable outcomes through emerging technologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, or related field.
• 10+ years of diverse IT experience.
• Experience managing staff, including hiring, training and performance.
• Equivalent experience reflecting the level of this position.

Responsibilities

• Oversee department staff including hiring, performance management and career development.
• Develop budgets and ensure resource allocations align with priorities.
• Coordinate with senior IT leaders and strategic suppliers.
• Translate priorities into technology investments with measurable outcomes.
• Maintain operational reliability across enrollment, eligibility, billing and payment platforms.
• Improve delivery and engineering flow, quality and stability.
• Apply emerging technology to productivity, testing and incident resolution.

Skills

People management

Budgeting

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or MIS

Job description

Position Purpose:

• Oversee department staff including hiring, performance management and career development to ensure alignment with defined goals.
• Develop budgets and priorities, ensuring plans and resource allocations are consistent with those budgets and priorities.
• Coordinate for the plans and activities of the organization with senior leaders inside and outside IT, as well as strategic suppliers.
• Anticipate and analyze the needs of customers and recommend and develop priorities for feasibility studies, systems design, and implementation to develop new and modify the company’s information processing systems and policies and procedures.
• Maintain operational reliability, quality and compliance across enrollment, eligibility, billing and payment platforms.
• Create a credible target state, migration roadmap and decommissioning discipline for a fragmented platform landscape.
• Improve delivery predictability, engineering flow, quality, operational stability and continuous improvement.
• Translate product, operations and business priorities into technology investments and measurable outcomes.
• Apply emerging technology to engineering productivity, testing, incident resolution, knowledge management, operations or member experience.
• Manage investment choices, capacity, strategic suppliers and contingent workforce resources as one operating system.
• Apply process and business expertise to impact business results.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.

Education/Experience:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, MIS, related field or equivalent experience required.

10+ years of diverse IT experience required.

Previous experience managing staff, including hiring, training, managing workload and performance.

Or equivalent experience acquired through accomplishments of applicable knowledge, duties, scope and skill reflective of the level of this position.

Pay Range: $171,900.00 - $326,900.00 per year

At Centene, we connect people to the care they need to live healthier lives — and the work you do here makes that impact real every day. You’ll take on meaningful challenges that directly support individuals, families, and communities, building your skills while making healthcare more accessible and effective. It’s work with a purpose you can see, backed by a team committed to improving lives well beyond the workday.

Benefits:

• competitive pay
• health insurance
• 401K and stock purchase plans
• tuition reimbursement
• paid time off plus holidays
• a flexible approach to work with remote, hybrid, field or office work schedules

Actual pay will be adjusted based on an individual's skills, experience, education, and other job-related factors permitted by law, including full-time or part-time status. Total compensation may also include additional forms of incentives. Benefits may be subject to program eligibility.

Centene is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity, and values the ways in which we are different. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered in accordance with the LA County Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act