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 Clinic’s 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 Clinic’s 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 Clinic’s 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 Clinic’s 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 Clinic’s strategic objectives while keeping Mayo Clinic’s 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 Clinic’s 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 Clinic’s 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 organization’s 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 Clinic’s 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.