Visionary Health System CIO — Hybrid/Remote, 24/7 Ops Impact

Optum; Walnut Creek (CA); Hybrid; USD 159,000 - 273,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Equity stock purchase

401k contribution

Job summary

Optum Insight invites a seasoned healthcare IT leader to serve as Chief Information Officer, overseeing a broad technology portfolio and a global delivery organization. You will align strategy with clinical and financial goals, ensure 24/7 operational resilience, and drive vendor partnerships across a multi-hospital network.

The role requires extensive IT leadership within health systems, deep expertise in EHR platforms, and strong executive communication to influence across clinical,

Qualifications

• 6+ years of healthcare operations experience within a healthcare delivery system, including partnership with enterprise executives and leadership of complex, geographically distributed teams.
• 5+ years of experience managing budgets, timelines and performance for a healthcare or technology business unit.
• 5+ years of IT leadership experience in a hospital or multi-hospital health system, including accountability for 24×7 availability of clinical systems, ancillary applications and infrastructure operations.
• 3+ years of direct accountability for an enterprise EHR platform, such as Epic, Oracle Health/Cerner or MEDITECH, spanning operations, optimization, upgrades and/or implementation.
• 3+ years of senior leadership experience as a CIO, deputy CIO, senior enterprise account leader, regional hospital CFO, SVP or comparable executive.
• Demonstrated understanding of hospital operations and clinical workflows across inpatient, perioperative, emergency and ambulatory settings.
• Proven experience partnering with physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other clinicians to define requirements and deliver technology that supports safe, secure patient care
• Working knowledge of healthcare regulatory, privacy and security requirements, including HIPAA, PHI safeguards, clinical downtime and business continuity procedures
• Reside in the Central time zone and ability to work onsite in Waukesha, WI, approximately 50% of the time

Responsibilities

• Serve as the health system’s CIO and trusted executive advisor, aligning technology strategy, investment priorities and transformation roadmaps with clinical, operational and financial objectives
• Own the performance, availability, cybersecurity and strategic roadmap for the health system’s EHR, ancillary clinical systems, revenue cycle applications, enterprise platforms and infrastructure
• Ensure safe, reliable 24×7 technology operations across the care environment, including resilience, downtime readiness, business continuity and support at the point of care
• Partner with physician, nursing, pharmacy, ancillary and administrative leaders to govern priorities, improve workflows and advance quality, patient safety, clinician experience and financial performance
• Develop, maintain and execute an integrated technology roadmap that aligns investments, capabilities and delivery priorities to enable the hospital to achieve its strategic, clinical, operational and financial goals
• Partner closely with hospital executives to translate enterprise priorities into technology-enabled capabilities, investments and outcomes that advance the health system’s strategic goals
• Act as Optum’s accountable delivery executive for the managed-services partnership, translating contractual commitments and strategic priorities into measurable execution plans and outcomes
• Lead engagement financial performance, including budget management, productivity commitments, cost transformation, remediation and delivery of contracted value
• Govern the managed-services agreement through clear service levels, performance reporting, change control, risk management, issue escalation and shared accountability for outcomes
• Build, develop and inspire a high-performing global delivery organization with the leadership, capabilities and operating model required to achieve strategic, operational, financial and customer goals
• Coordinate across Optum product, operations, professional services, compliance, finance and people teams to remove delivery barriers and present one integrated, accountable organization to the customer
• Drive continuous improvement, innovation and transformation across processes, tools and delivery capabilities to improve service quality, operational efficiency, regulatory compliance and partnership value

Skills

Healthcare operations

IT leadership

Budget management

Strategic planning

Executive communication

Vendor/partnership management

Job description

Optum Insight invites a seasoned healthcare IT leader to serve as Chief Information Officer, overseeing a broad technology portfolio and a global delivery organization. You will align strategy with clinical and financial goals, ensure 24/7 operational resilience, and drive vendor partnerships across a multi-hospital network.

The role requires extensive IT leadership within health systems, deep expertise in EHR platforms, and strong executive communication to influence across clinical,