IT Sr. Director (School of Medicine - Information Technology)

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (SOM) is seeking an inaugural IT Sr. Director who will establish and lead the information technology function for the school. Reporting to the School of Medicine’s Vice Dean for Finance and Administration and the University Deputy Chief Information Officer, the IT Sr. Director advances and supports the school’s information technology and key data analytics infrastructure and services in order to advance the mission of the school. The role serves as the leader, domain expert, and strategic partner in the information technology, data infrastructure, and information security domains for the school. The IT Sr. Director provides counsel to senior leadership related to technology and business process direction. The incumbent represents Hopkins while working with external constituencies, including state, higher education, healthcare, and federal organizations, in the development of technology and/or regulatory policies and practices, as well as industry organizations that have an impact on the business of the institutions. The position leads large-scale, complex projects requiring multi-disciplinary coordination and significant vendor collaboration. The incumbent works as a trusted partner for medicine, healthcare, and university communities and has as day-to-day responsibility for school IT operations. The IT Sr. Director will set strategy and provide technological leadership across the school, with a primary focus on administrative and educational technologies. This role requires a highly collaborative approach, working closely with university and health system IT organizations to ensure alignment, seamless integration, and valued solutions that meet the school’s diverse needs.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Architect and implement a school-wide IT operating model and organization design, encompassing a central IT organization and coordinated departmental IT functions, to deliver a value-added IT and data strategy, enterprise architecture, and shared best practices.
• Establish and oversee information management and governance frameworks that provide agile, efficient oversight of the school’s IT ecosystem, including standards, policies, and lifecycle management.
• Lead the design, deployment, and continuous improvement of innovative educational technologies that enhance teaching, learning, assessment, and the student experience.
• Serve as the school’s advocate and subject-matter representative in university and health system IT committees, planning, and enterprise initiatives, ensuring school-specific use cases and requirements are addressed.
• Develop and execute a comprehensive information security strategy for the school, aligned with Hopkins policies and industry best practices; oversee risk management, compliance, and incident response in coordination with institutional security teams.
• Leads the federated organization of IT within the school of medicine, ensuring programs and individuals are well positioned to advance the needs of the school and divisions tri-partite mission: education, research and clinical.
• Manages key practices, committees, and processes to ensure school’s IT is well governed, runs efficiency, serves as a good partner, and provides value.
• As a member of the senior management team, lead strategic and tactical planning to achieve institutional goals by prioritizing initiatives and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future technologies.
• Develop technology infrastructure to anticipate the organization's needs, be cost-effective, reliable and compatible with existing and emerging technologies.
• Anticipate change and be agile to respond when technology requirements emerge and evolve.
• Based on understanding of institutional goals, mission, and culture, assess impact and effectiveness of technology to ensure it supports the institution’s needs.
• Provides guidance and is ultimately responsible for ongoing operations and capital budgets, a multi-year budget forecast and both strategic and operational planning.
• Balances available personnel and funding resources in support of meeting both operational and strategic imperatives. Recognizes situations that present themselves and takes action with executive leadership to address significant issues.
• Provides guidance for the development of technology related policies and procedures and represents IT on business-driven policy committees within and outside of Hopkins.
• Ensures that applicable Hopkins policies, practices, regulatory requirements are addressed and followed within his/her area of responsibility.
• Has overall responsibility for the design, development, and application of technical solutions that satisfy customer needs and are essential to the ongoing operations of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
• Ensure continuous delivery of information technology support and services through oversight of service level agreements.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Ten years of progressively responsible IT management experience including five years of management/supervisory experience.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education beyond a high school diploma/graduation equivalent, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a technology or business field coupled and proven experience leading large scale, complex projects is desired.
• Experience with HIPAA and FERPA.

This salary range does not include all components of the School of Medicine's compensation program. This position may be eligible for a discretionary bonus. Therefore, the actual compensation paid to the selected candidate may vary slightly from the salary range stated herein.

Classified Title: IT Sr. Director-SOM

Job Posting Title (Working Title): IT Sr. Director (School of Medicine - Information Technology)

Role/Level/Range: L/05/LJ

Starting Salary Range: $165,000 - $288,900 Annually ($230,000 targeted; Commensurate w/exp.)

Employee group: Full Time

Schedule: Mon-Fri, 8.30am-5.00pm

FLSA Status: Exempt

Location: Hybrid/School of Medicine Campus

Department name: SOM Admin HR General Administration

Personnel area: School of Medicine