Vice Chair IT Software Engineering

The Vice Chair of IT Software Engineering is a contributing member of the Mayo Clinic technology organization and reports to the Chief Information Officer or designee. The Vice Chair provides enterprise leadership for software engineering capabilities across the Department of Information Technology and works cooperatively with physicians scientists department chairs administrative colleagues allied health staff site leadership Mayo business entities and technology leaders across Mayo Clinic.

The Vice Chair is responsible for advancing Mayo Clinics enterprise software engineering strategy operating model standards platforms and talent capabilities. This role leads the functions responsible for Development Shared Services AI/MLOps platform ownership Sandbox and Developer Platform capabilities and enterprise software engineering standards enablement. The Vice Chair also provides dotted-line leadership and technical direction to embedded software development teams throughout the IT department ensure alignment with Mayo Clinics software engineering standards secure software development lifecycle practices enterprise architecture security privacy resiliency and operational expectations.

The Vice Chair plays a pivotal role in transforming software engineering with Mayo Clinics IT department.. This includes establishing an outcomes-focused AI-enabled engineering framework designed to improve software quality accelerate delivery increase developer productivity reduce technical debt and strengthen operational reliability. The Vice Chair is accountable for defining the future of IT software development including the adoption of AI-assisted software engineering modern DevSecOps practices platform engineering self-healing software capabilities policy-as-a-service approaches automated governance and reusable enterprise development patterns. The Vice Chair partners closely with Mayo Clinics Center for Digital Health on best practices and approaches for software engineering across Mayo Clinic.

The Vice Chair ensures that software engineering services strategies plans technologies processes standards and skills meet Mayo Clinics strategic objectives while keeping Mayo Clinics mission and values at the forefront. This position is accountable for designing implementing and continuously improving a core enterprise software engineering capability that leverages modern techniques automation AI and shared platforms to achieve exceptional results. The Vice Chair refines and applies Mayo Clinics secure software development lifecycle practices to ensure that software produced across IT and embedded development teams is of the highest quality and is secure resilient maintainable supportable and aligned with organizational needs. The role works closely with technology teams inside and outside IT to ensure systems are designed with proactive DFx requirements (Design For Testability Maintainability Reliability Scalability Security Observability Self Healing etc.).

The Vice Chair develops organizational structures decision rights governance processes and communities of practice that promote convergence consistency and efficient operations across software engineering activities. This includes establishing enterprise standards for developer experience application development AI/MLOps sandbox environments automated testing software supply chain security observability reliability engineering policy as code policy as a service and operational readiness. The Vice Chair ensures that Mayo Clinic software teams have access to shared services reusable frameworks modern development tooling secure experimentation environments and paved-road patterns that accelerate delivery while reducing duplication and risk.

The Vice Chair partners closely with physician scientist administrative and technology leaders to develop strategies and tactics required to meet organizational objectives. The role collaborates with enterprise architecture cybersecurity infrastructure cloud data AI digital and operations leaders to ensure software platforms and engineering practices are secure scalable interoperable cost-effective and aligned with Mayo Clinics technology strategy. The Vice Chair coordinates with the Chief Information Security Officer and cybersecurity leaders to ensure implementation of security and privacy policies within software engineering standards platforms tools and delivery practices.

The Vice Chair is responsible for the development of operating expense and capital budgets within the guidelines of the organizations overall goals and objectives. This role monitors organizational performance related to such budgets and supports the CIO in assuring that the organization operates in a cost-effective manner. The Vice Chair may also partner with vendors external organizations staff augmentation partners and offshore resources as appropriate to ensure effective delivery high-quality outcomes and adherence to Mayo Clinic standards.

The Vice Chair builds and leads a high-performing organization and fosters a culture of excellence efficiency innovation accountability curiosity continuous learning and disciplined execution. The Vice Chair establishes measures of performance for software delivery platform adoption developer productivity quality reliability security posture technical debt operational resilience and business value. The Vice Chair stays abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies in software engineering AI-enabled development MLOps DevSecOps platform engineering self-healing systems policy automation and developer experience and incorporates relevant advancements into Mayo Clinics software engineering strategy.

The Vice Chair carries out responsibilities assigned by the CIO or designee and may act on behalf of the CIO or designee to ensure continuity of organizational operations in accordance with prescribed standards philosophy and policies.

Mayo Clinic will not sponsor or transfer visas for this position including F1 OPT STEM.

The Vice Chair requires a masters degree in technology computer science software engineering health care administration business cybersecurity health informatics engineering or a related field; OR a bachelors degree in technology computer science software engineering health care administration business cybersecurity health informatics engineering or a related field plus ten years of validated progressive administrative leadership experience.

A minimum of ten years of progressive leadership experience in software engineering application development platform engineering enterprise technology digital technology AI/MLOps DevSecOps or a related technology leadership area is required. Proven experience leading large complex cross-functional technical organizations and enterprise-level initiatives is required. Experience leading building maturing or governing large-scale software engineering organizations including direct or matrixed leadership of software engineers shared services teams platform teams or embedded development teams is strongly preferred.

The successful candidate must demonstrate advanced knowledge of modern software engineering practices including secure software development lifecycle practices DevSecOps CI/CD automated testing cloud-native development API and integration patterns platform engineering observability reliability engineering software supply chain security and operational supportability. Experience with AI-enabled software engineering AI/MLOps platforms developer platforms sandbox environments policy as code policy as a service self-healing systems site reliability engineering and automated governance is preferred.

The Vice Chair must have administrative experience working with physicians scientists administrators technology leaders and allied health staff as well as a demonstrated ability to partner with senior leadership within the technology organization. The Vice Chair must have exceptional business acumen the demonstrated ability to drive transformational change excellent communication skills strong team-building and collaboration skills and the ability to influence effectively across a complex matrixed organization.

The Vice Chair must demonstrate the ability to consolidate multiple related activities into a comprehensive enterprise program establish and govern standards across distributed teams manage budgets drive operational efficiency and incorporate relevant industry trends. The Vice Chair models behaviors that contribute to success by embodying Mayo Clinic values maintaining a customer-centric approach fostering innovation in alignment with unified goals demonstrating accountability and ambition being flexible and adaptable exhibiting curiosity and empowerment relying on data- and value-driven decisions and maintaining an action-oriented mindset.

Advanced degrees such as MS MBA MHA MPH or related graduate education in a relevant discipline are preferred.

This is a hybrid position and must be located within 100 miles of one of the following Mayo Clinic campuses: Jacksonville FL; Phoenix AZ; or Rochester MN.