Senior Director, Ancillary & Medical Device Technology

The Senior Director for Ancillary & Medical Device Technology provides strategic and operational leadership for technology services, systems, and applications supporting clinical ancillary services, medical device-related technologies, symptom management, clinical pathways, and quality & patient safety functions, within Information Services. Reporting to the Vice President, Epic & Clinical Hospital Operations, this role sets direction for governance, prioritization, execution, and cross-functional alignment across both day-to-day operations and future-state planning.

The Senior Director partners closely with clinical, operational, quality, patient safety, biomedical, and technical leaders along with external partners to ensure technology strategies, support models, implementation priorities advance Institute goals and evolving models of care and transformation. This leader is responsible for fostering strong internal and external partnerships, establishing clear decision-making and escalation processes, and driving portfolio alignment, execution, readiness and performance.

In a highly complex, matrixed environment, the role also provides oversight for delivery outcomes, risk management, and team leadership.

Located in Boston and the surrounding communities, Dana‑Farber Cancer Institute is a leader in life changing breakthroughs in cancer research and patient care. We are united in our mission of conquering cancer, HIV/AIDS, and related diseases. We strive to create an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment where we provide compassionate and comprehensive care to patients of all backgrounds, and design programs to promote public health particularly among high‑risk and underserved populations.

We conduct groundbreaking research that advances treatment, we educate tomorrow's physician/researchers, and we work with amazing partners, including other Harvard Medical School‑affiliated hospitals.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead the ancillary and medical device technology portfolio. Provide strategic and operational leadership for systems and services that support ancillary and medical device-related functions, including pharmacy, clinical laboratory, blood and blood donor, imaging, symptom management, clinical pathways and patient safety domains. Ensure portfolio plans, priorities, and sequencing align with enterprise objectives, operational requirements, and future-state planning.
• Establish governance and cross-functional partnership models. Create and lead governance processes, decision forums, and escalation paths that support aligned planning and execution across technical teams, operational leadership, clinical stakeholders, quality and patient safety leaders and external partners.
• Guide technology planning and readiness. Lead planning for new capabilities, innovations, upgrades, integrations, workflow improvements, and service enhancements. Partner across internal and external technology teams and operational and clinical functions to define scope, dependencies, governance, KPIs, timing, and readiness needs for initiatives with operational and strategic impact.
• Provide oversight of delivery, operational performance, and risk across the portfolio. Establish expectations and standards for program oversight, status reporting, issue management, escalation, and execution across multiple initiatives and work streams. Make recommendations related to resource allocation, sequencing, and risk mitigation within established governance and budget parameters. Ensure work is executed in a way that supports reliability, scalability, and alignment with Institute priorities.
• Lead teams responsible for ancillary and medical device technology delivery. Direct a function that includes project…