Job Posting Title:
Director, IT Architecture & Delivery
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Hiring Department:
Dell Medical School
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Position Open To:
All Applicants
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Weekly Scheduled Hours:
40
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FLSA Status:
Exempt from FLSA
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Earliest Start Date:
Immediately
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Position Duration:
Expected to Continue
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Location:
AUSTIN, TX
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Job Details:
General Notes

This position supports a large, integrated healthcare system, including the development and expansion of a tertiary hospital and medical research environment. The role partners closely with clinical, operational, research, and IT leaders to modernize enterprise technology services and support organizational growth.

Purpose

The Director, IT Architecture & Delivery leads a portfolio of enterprise technology solutions and programs supporting clinical, operational, administrative, and research environments. This role is responsible for translating strategic priorities into coordinated technology roadmaps, scalable solution designs, and executable delivery plans.

Responsibilities

Leads Portfolio Strategy, Architecture, and Delivery

• Leads an assigned portfolio of solutions, programs, and projects aligned to organizational priorities for the academic medical center, hospital operations, and research environment
• Translates strategic objectives into actionable portfolio roadmaps, implementation plans, and sequencing decisions
• Ensures solutions within the portfolio are aligned to one another, technically coherent, and positioned to support future-state operating and service delivery models
• Balances near-term delivery commitments with longer-term modernization goals

Manages and Develops a Cross-Functional Team

• Leads, coaches, and develops a team of solution architects, program managers, and technical project managers
• Establishes clear role expectations, delivery disciplines, decision rights, and performance standards across the team
• Builds a collaborative team culture focused on accountability, execution, stakeholder partnership, and continuous improvement
• Guides team capacity planning and work prioritization across initiatives and strategic demands

Drives Portfolio Alignment and Integrated Planning

• Aligns projects and solutions within the assigned portfolio to reduce duplication, manage dependencies, and improve overall delivery outcomes
• Partners with peer portfolio leaders across applications, infrastructure, and data to coordinate roadmaps, shared platforms, and enterprise capabilities
• Identifies interdependencies, risks, sequencing conflicts, and integration points across portfolios and service lines
• Supports portfolio governance, intake, prioritization, and planning processes to maintain alignment with institutional goals and funding realities

Partners with Service Delivery Groups to Modernize IT Services

• Collaborates with infrastructure, operations, cybersecurity, support, platform, and other service delivery teams to align services and operating capabilities to the needs of new and evolving hospital and research facilities
• Helps define future-state service models, transition requirements, support readiness expectations, and operational handoffs for new solutions
• Advances service modernization through standardization, lifecycle planning, and operational integration
• Ensures delivery plans account for production support, resilience, scalability, and service adoption

Provides Architectural and Program Oversight

• Oversees solution design direction, program structure, and execution quality across major initiatives in the portfolio
• Ensures business, clinical, research, and operational requirements are translated into scalable and supportable technology approaches
• Establishes review mechanisms to confirm adherence to standards, architecture principles, security expectations, and integration requirements
• Escalates and resolves issues affecting delivery, scope, design integrity, or service readiness

Builds Stakeholder Alignment and Executive Communication

• Partners with business, clinical, academic, research, and IT leaders to define priorities, communicate decisions, and maintain alignment
• Prepares and presents executive-level portfolio updates, risks, recommendations, and roadmap options
• Builds effective coalitions across technical and non-technical stakeholders to enable progress in a complex, matrixed environment
• Supports change leadership for large-scale transformation efforts tied to new facility activation, service modernization, and enterprise transformation

Marginal or Periodic Functions

• Adheres to internal controls and reporting requirements
• Participates in capital planning, annual planning, and portfolio review processes
• Supports organizational readiness, post-implementation reviews, and lessons-learned activities
• Represents the organization in vendor discussions, design workshops, and strategic planning sessions
• Performs related duties as required

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Strategic Agility

• Sees ahead clearly; anticipates future consequences and trends and translates them into actionable strategies
• Aligns enterprise architecture and delivery portfolios with organizational strategy and growth plans
• Anticipates downstream impacts of technology decisions on clinical, operational, and service models
• Shapes multi-year technology roadmaps that balance innovation, risk, and sustainability

Managing Complexity

• Deals effectively with ambiguity, interdependencies, and competing priorities
• Integrates applications, infrastructure, data, and platforms into cohesive, supportable solutions
• Manages dependencies across large, interconnected programs and portfolios
• Simplifies complex environments while preserving essential capabilities

Drive for Results

• Consistently achieves results, even under challenging conditions
• Translates strategic objectives into deliverable outcomes
• Holds teams accountable for performance, quality, and timelines
• Addresses delivery risks proactively and decisively

Building Effective Teams

• Creates strong morale, engagement, and collaboration across various teams
• Leads multidisciplinary teams across architecture, program management, and delivery
• Builds clarity of roles, decision rights, and accountability
• Develops talent and succession in architecture and delivery disciplines

Political Savvy

• Understands organizational dynamics and navigates them effectively
• Builds alignment across clinical, operational, and IT leadership
• Uses influence rather than authority to drive outcomes
• Navigates governance bodies and decision-making forums effectively

Communicating with Impact

• Delivers clear, concise, and compelling messages tailored to the audience
• Presents complex technical concepts in business-relevant terms
• Facilitates cross-functional alignment and shared understanding
• Produces clear documentation, executive materials, and decision artifacts

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Healthcare Informatics, Business, or a related field
• Ten years of progressive experience in solution architecture, program leadership, portfolio management, or technology transformation
• Five years of management experience leading professional staff and complex cross-functional initiatives
• Experience leading large-scale technology programs in collaboration with architecture, delivery, and operational service teams
• Experience aligning multiple projects or solutions into an integrated portfolio or domain roadmap

Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, Health Informatics, Engineering, or a related field
• Experience in hospital, academic medical center, medical research, or other highly complex service environments
• Experience supporting new facility activation, enterprise platform transformation, or large-scale modernization efforts
• Experience with environments involving EHR, ERP, digital platforms, cloud services, data platforms, analytics, interoperability, or enterprise integration
• Experience working in one of the following primary domains: applications, infrastructure, or data, with ability to operate effectively across peer portfolios

Licenses/Registrations/Certifications

Required

• None

Preferred

• TOGAF, Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Solutions Architect, or similar architecture certification
• Project Management Professional (PMP), PgMP, SAFe, or equivalent program or portfolio certification
• Relevant healthcare, cloud, data, or service management certifications

Salary Range

$207,500+ depending on qualifications

Working Conditions

• Standard office environment with routine use of computer, keyboard, and other standard office equipment
• May require participation in onsite planning, operational readiness activities, design sessions, and stakeholder meetings in clinical, research, and administrative settings
• Position may involve work in environments associated with hospital and research operations
• May require prolonged periods of sitting and extensive computer use

Required Materials

• Resume/CV
• 3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor
• Letter of interest

Important for applicants who are NOT current university employees or contingent workers: You will be prompted to submit your resume the first time you apply, then you will be provided an option to upload a new Resume for subsequent applications. Any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) will be uploaded in the Application Questions section; you will be able to multi-select additional files. Before submitting your online job application, ensure that ALL Required Materials have been uploaded. Once your job application has been submitted, you cannot make changes.

Important for Current university employees and contingent workers: As a current university employee or contingent worker, you MUST apply within Workday by searching for Find UT Jobs. If you are a current University employee, log-in to Workday, navigate to your Worker Profile, click the Career link in the left hand navigation menu and then update the sections in your Professional Profile before you apply. This information will be pulled into your application. The application is one page and you will be prompted to upload your resume. In addition, you must respond to the application questions presented to upload any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) that were noted above.