Vice President, Enterprise Applications

Clinical Application Leader

Provides visionary leadership over our clinical, financial, and administrative application ecosystem. Directs budgeting, resourcing, policy formulation, and technology evaluation to ensure applications are operationally robust, aligned with organizational strategy, and optimized for cost, quality, and security. Partnering closely with the CIDO, this role drives operational effectiveness across IT, ensuring technology investments maximize strategic value and patient care impact.

Essential Functions

• Architects and oversees the design, deployment, configuration, and maintenance of enterprise systemsspanning EHR, ERP, financial, and administrative platformsensuring reliability, scalability, and alignment with Children's Wisconsin's mission.
• Assists the CIDO in aligning IT operations to organizational strategy, improving efficiency, controlling costs, and maintaining exceptional service quality throughout the application life cycle.
• Stays informed about emerging healthcare application technologies. Leads vendor partnerships, contract negotiations, and ensures that procurement aligns with security, compliance, and ROI expectations.
• Defines and enforces enterprise-wide policies for system security, disaster recovery, user support, and quality standards to maintain consistent, compliant IT operations.
• Owns the annual IT operating and capital budget for applications. Ensures application spending supports strategic value, fiscal discipline, and enterprise-wide objectives.
• Delivers dependable, secure, cost-effective application services. Fosters a culture of continuous improvement, operational resilience, and cross-functional coordination.
• Shapes the IS operations structure and governance model to scale effectively in parallel with growing demands and evolving technology landscapes.
• Acts as a strategic advisor partnering with the CIDO to guide executive leadership across the organization in making informed decisions about application investments, prioritization, and transformation.
• Performs people management responsibilities for employees which may include but are not limited to: employee engagement, recruitment, performance management and development

People Management Responsibility

• Performs people management responsibilities for employees which may include but are not limited to: employee engagement, recruitment, performance management and development

Education

• Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Information Technology, Mathematics or related discipline required
• Master's Degree Computer Science, Information Technology, Mathematics or related discipline preferred

Experience

• 10+ years relevant computer systems experience required
• 15+ years relevant computer systems experience in a hospital or healthcare setting preferred

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Remains up to date on health care-related technology innovation, technology-related audit best practices, including state and federal law regarding operations.
• Determines the operating model, policies, and approaches for information and technology to foster business-oriented and digital-ready culture, mindsets, and practices.
• Skills in developing strategic and tactical plans to meet business objectives in a large healthcare system.
• Strong interpersonal, leadership, decision making and team building skills.

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• This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be requested in the performance of this job.
• Employment is at-will. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise.

Children's Wisconsin is an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees. We treat everyone with dignity, respect, and fairness. We do not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status or condition protected by the law.