Senior Director, IT

City/State

Virginia Beach, VA

Work Shift

First (Days)

Overview:

Sentara Health is seeking to hire a qualified individual to join our team as Sr. Director of IT.

Position Status: Full-time, Day Shift

Position Location: Hybrid, Hampton Roads

Standard Working Hours: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (ET).

Sentara Health is seeking to hire a qualified individual to join our team as Sr. Director, IT.

Position Status: Full-time, Day Shift

Standard Working Hours: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (ET).

Expectations for this Role:

Sentara Health is seeking a Sr. Director, IT. The Senior Information Technology Director of Infrastructure and Operations will lead enterprise-wide infrastructure services. This leader will oversee the planning, implementation, and optimization of core IT infrastructure—including data center platforms, epic technical and integration, cloud services, database management, enterprise compute and storage, virtualization, and disaster recovery. Reporting directly to the CTO, this role plays a pivotal part in ensuring operational excellence, business continuity, and infrastructure scalability across the organization.

Strategic Leadership

• Define and execute the infrastructure and operations roadmap aligned with Sentara Health’s enterprise technology strategy.
• Provide leadership for hybrid (on-prem/cloud) environments, ensuring scalability, security, and resilience.
• Oversee infrastructure services including cloud platforms, data centers, virtualization, compute, storage, and backup/recovery systems.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams through transformation initiatives, including cloud adoption, standardization, and modernization.
• Strong communicator adept at translating complex technical concepts into business terms for senior leadership and board-level audiences.
• Builds collaborative partnerships across IT, clinical, security, and business operations to drive enterprise-wide alignment and outcomes.

Technology & Innovation

• Drive modernization initiatives, including infrastructure automation, platform-as-a-service (PaaS), and cloud-native architectures.
• Partner with Chief Enterprise architecture and application teams to ensure seamless infrastructure support for clinical and business systems.
• Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies to improve agility and support digital transformation goals.

Operational Resilience and Compliance

• Lead disaster recovery planning, testing, and infrastructure readiness within the CTO organization and partner with the CISO organization on cyber resiliency.
• Ensure infrastructure and data systems meet HIPAA, HITRUST, NIST, and internal audit standards.
• Mitigate operational and security risks through proactive controls and operational rigor.

Vendor and Budget Management

• Manage contracts and performance of infrastructure vendors, database platform providers, and integration partners.
• Develop and manage multi-million-dollar capital and operating budgets, identifying opportunities for cost efficiency and innovation.

People Leadership

• Build and lead a high-performing team of infrastructure engineers, systems administrators, database administrators, and integration specialists.
• Promote a culture of innovation, agility, and continuous improvement within infrastructure and operations.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field; master’s preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive IT leadership experience with at least 5 years in a senior infrastructure and/or operations leadership role.
• Proven experience leading hybrid infrastructure environments (on-prem + cloud), clinical data integration, and enterprise database operations.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong knowledge of healthcare data interoperability standards and enterprise architecture principles.
• Strong understanding of ITSM frameworks (ITIL, COBIT) and infrastructure governance practices.
• Demonstrated success leading infrastructure transformation in a healthcare or regulated industry environment.

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We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, and benefits. The base pay rate for Full Time employment is:$156,977.60-$291,532.80. Additional compensation may be available for this role such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.

Sentara Independence provides quality outpatient services to the surrounding community. The facility includes an ambulance-accessible emergency room that is supported by board-certified physicians. Sentara Independence houses state-of-the-art medical equipment and highly-skilled physicians and staff.  Sentara Independence is now an extension of the quality services at Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital including advanced imaging and physical therapy.

Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.

In support of our mission “to improve health every day,” this is a tobacco-free environment.

For positions that are available as remote work, Sentara Health employs associates in the following states:

Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.