Applications Development Director jobs in Illinois

POSITION SUMMARY:

The IT Director of Applications is a forward-thinking leader accountable for driving value, innovation, and growth across the UW Health academic health system.  Working in close partnership with operational leaders and IS colleagues, the Director of IS Applications leads the development and adoption of application platform strategies, roadmaps, and solutions.  The Director of IS Applications is a system-wide change leader, driving organizational change management to ensure successful adoption and to maximize value.  The Director is also a system-wide thought leader and change champion for data literacy and data governance.

The Director, IS Applications is responsible for the direction and leadership for a broad portfolio of clinical and/or business products and platforms, aligned with the strategic goals and objectives for UW Health.  The Director effectively balances technologies, talent, and financial management in the development of strategies and roadmaps.  The Director drives the evolution of modern, secure, sustainable architecture, platforms, and solutions.  The Director ensures a balanced portfolio of product and project management for solution delivery and leads improvement in product management capabilities. 

The Director, IS Applications attracts, develops, and retains a best-in-class team.  The Director promotes and evolves a culture centered on service, empowerment, and accountability.  The Director develops and sustains consultative, trusted advisor relationships with stakeholders, colleagues and leaders across UW Health, UW School of Medicine & Public Health, partners and affiliates.  The Director and their team contribute to a learning environment and a learning health system, across the missions of an academic medical system.

The Director sets high standards for improvement in leadership, technical leadership, and domain-specific competencies.   The Director ensures and drives improvement in information security culture and practices, including regulatory awareness, privacy, and security.

EDUCATION/TRAINING: 

• Minimum
  • Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare, Information Technology, Business, Health Administration, Engineering, or related field
• Preferred
  • Master’s degree in Healthcare, Information Technology, Business, Health Administration, Engineering, or related field strongly preferred

LICENSURE/CERTIFICATION:

• Minimum
  • None
• Preferred
  • Registered Nurse, Registered Pharmacist, or other similar healthcare license of certification
  • Membership in and certification from professional associations such as ACHE, AMIA, HIMMS, PMI

EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum
  • Demonstrated success leading the design, development, configuration, support, and adoption of large and enterprise-wide solutions including examples where leading without direct authority was a critical success factor
  • Demonstrated success driving significant enterprise-wide organizational change management, in collaboration with operational partners
  • Demonstrated success driving the adoption of innovative IT capabilities resulting in significant realized value
  • Demonstrated success leading the maturity of data literacy and data governance
  • Demonstrated success forming and sustaining collaborative, trusted-advisor relationships with stakeholders and IS colleagues
  • Demonstrated success as a financial manager and steward
• Preferred
  • Demonstrated success delivering a balanced portfolio of products, projects, and recurring operations
  • Demonstrated success managing vendors, partners, and/or managed services
  • Demonstrated success growing your versatility as a leader, successfully supporting areas and teams that were at the time outside your area(s) of expertise
  • Ten (10) years progressive experience in IS or Informatics project, product, and solution delivery
  • Seven (7) years of progressive leadership experience in large scale applications, analytics, clinical care, or clinical or business operations
  • Five (5) years of experience in direct clinical care, health care operations, or health care administration
  • Healthcare subject matter expertise including at least five (5) years data and/or analytics experience in a health system, academic medical center or health payer organization     

REQUIRED SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, and ABILITIES:

IS Core Competencies:

• Advanced proficiency in all of the following:
  • Communication
  • Critical thinking
  • Leadership including leads with integrity, maintains strategic orientation, demonstrates business & financial acumen, champions innovation, manages execution, leading & developing people
  • Mentoring and teaching
  • Technical leadership
  • Leading without direct authority
  • Leading highly empowered and self-directed teams
  • Lean management
  • Agile methodologies

Position Specific Competencies

• Advanced proficiency in at least 4 IS application competencies
• Advanced proficiency in all of the following
  • Technology awareness and strategic planning
  • Project management
  • Organizational change management
• Developing advanced proficiency in all of the following
• Business relationship management
• Product management

Other Required Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to include the ability to negotiate and resolve conflicts and build teams.
• Demonstrated creativity and flexibility
• Ability to operate in high-pressure situations
• Excellent organizational skills
• Demonstrated innovative approach to problem resolution
• Ability to work collaboratively across UW Health entities and disciplines
• Demonstrated commitment to patient- and family centered care
• Broad knowledge of modern health care administration practices and principles within a managed care environment and/or an academic medical center
• Effective analytical ability in order to develop and analyze options, recommend solutions to and solve complex problems and issues

• Demonstrated effective managerial and administrative leadership of clinical operations
• Knowledge of principles and techniques used in negotiation as applied to service contracts and equipment purchasing
• Effective organizational, planning and project management abilities
• Experience in financial and programmatic presentations
• Ability to function independently and deal with multiple, simultaneous projects
• Ability to recognize personal strengths and weaknesses and develop goals for professional growth and achievement.
• Ability to demonstrate a commitment to quality and excellence

• Effective leadership abilities:
• Ability to implement change in a positive, sensitive, and forward- thinking manner
• Planning and problem solving
• Developing goals and objectives, and establishing priorities
• Inspires confidence, appropriate risk taking and achievement of high standards
• Self-starter with a willingness to try new ideas
• Positive, can-do attitude coupled with a sense of urgency
• Good judgment and ability to act decisively at the right time
• Ability to persuade others and develop consensus
• Effective communication skills both in written and verbal presentation with a communication style that is open and foster trust, credibility and understanding
• Ability to effect collaborative and promote teamwork
• Ability to ensure a high level of customer satisfaction including employees, patients, visitors, faculty, referring physicians and external stakeholders
• Ability to create win/win solutions and relationships