Payer/Provider IT & Cloud Strategy Leader

Job Description
Payer/Provider IT & Cloud Strategy Leader

• Start Date: ASAP
• Duration: Contract-to-Hire (4 month Contract period)
• Daily Working Hours: Full-Time
• Travel: Up to 25%
• Work Authorization: Must be eligible to work in the U.S. without company sponsorship
• No Third Parties Please

Project Scope

We are seeking a Payer/Provider IT & Cloud Strategy Leader to serve as a senior advisor responsible for assessing, optimizing, and transforming a healthcare organization's technology application portfolio. This role connects application rationalization, Cloud FinOps, enterprise IT strategy, and major platform selection initiatives - including EMR and ERP evaluations - into a cohesive, executable technology modernization program.

Position Summary

This is a senior strategic and hands-on consulting role for a healthcare technology leader who can operate at the executive level while driving real workplan execution across application portfolio management, cloud cost optimization, and enterprise platform strategy. The ideal candidate brings 8-10+ years of healthcare IT consulting experience, demonstrated Cloud FinOps depth, and a track record of leading complex rationalization and digital transformation programs at health systems, academic medical centers, or payer organizations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the application rationalization workstream end to end - discovery, inventory validation, portfolio segmentation, disposition planning, business case development, and implementation roadmap execution.
• Integrate Cloud FinOps practices into portfolio decisions, analyzing cloud consumption, unit economics, cost allocation, licensing, and optimization opportunities across IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and hybrid environments.
• Translate enterprise business priorities into actionable IT and digital strategy including capability-based planning, target-state architecture, investment themes, governance, and sequenced transformation roadmaps.
• Lead or support EMR/ERP platform selection efforts including requirements definition, RFI/RFP development, vendor demonstrations, fit-gap analysis, TCO modeling, and executive recommendation development.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive application inventory covering business ownership, utilization, cost, risk, integration dependencies, lifecycle status, and operational criticality.
• Define and apply rationalization criteria to determine disposition recommendations - retain, retire, consolidate, replace, re-platform, remediate, or modernize.
• Build executive-ready decision frameworks, heat maps, scoring models, roadmap views, and value cases to support investment governance and portfolio modernization.
• Develop financial models connecting application and cloud decisions to TCO, run-rate savings, technical debt reduction, avoided cost, and benefit realization.
• Lead stakeholder interviews, workshops, application surveys, and working sessions to validate insights and align on recommendations.
• Coordinate with sourcing, procurement, and finance to identify contract optimization, licensing reduction, and run-rate savings opportunities.
• Prepare governance materials, leadership readouts, and executive dashboards to drive transparency and timely decision-making.

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years of experience in healthcare technology consulting, IT strategy, application portfolio management, enterprise architecture, or large-scale technology modernization.
• Demonstrated experience leading application rationalization, portfolio assessment, cloud migration readiness, EHR/ERP ecosystem optimization, or IT cost reduction initiatives.
• Demonstrated Cloud FinOps experience including cost transparency, allocation and showback/chargeback, forecast and budget management, resource optimization, commitment planning, and SaaS/license optimization.
• Experience developing enterprise IT and digital strategies linking business capabilities, technology architecture, cybersecurity, data/AI, sourcing, and investment priorities.
• Experience leading or supporting EMR and/or ERP system selections with fluency in requirements gathering, vendor evaluation, RFI/RFP processes, TCO analysis, and executive decision support.
• Strong understanding of healthcare application landscapes including clinical systems, revenue cycle, analytics platforms, integration engines, and corporate systems.
• Excellent executive communication skills - able to translate complex technical findings into clear recommendations, risks, tradeoffs, and value propositions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with application rationalization in complex health systems, academic medical centers, payer organizations, or healthcare M&A environments.
• Familiarity with major healthcare platforms including Epic, Oracle Health/Cerner, MEDITECH, Workday, ServiceNow, and Microsoft.
• Hands-on experience with Cloud FinOps tools such as Azure Cost Management, AWS Cost Explorer, Apptio Cloudability, or Flexera.
• Experience building financial models for TCO, run-rate savings, license optimization, and reinvestment planning.
• Certifications in PMP, ITIL, TOGAF, Lean Six Sigma, cloud architecture, or FinOps Certified Practitioner/Professional.
• Prior consulting experience with executive-level client relationship management, proposal support, and delivery ownership.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Senior operator who can move fluidly between executive strategy conversations and workplan-level execution without losing altitude in either direction.
• Cloud-financially fluent - knows how to find real savings and build a credible case for portfolio decisions that stick.
• Healthcare platform-savvy across both clinical and corporate systems, with the vendor evaluation experience to run a rigorous selection process.
• Skilled facilitator who earns trust quickly across clinical, IT, finance, and C-suite stakeholder groups.
• Comfortable in a fast-moving consulting engagement with high travel expectations and executive visibility from day one.

When working with Quoris as a consultant, you are eligible for competitive benefits including Health, Dental, Vision, 401k, and a great culture/working environment.

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