Director, Enterprise Technology Architecture

Reporting to the AVP, Enterprise Infrastructure and Operations, the Director, Enterprise Technology Architecture leads the development and adoption of DFCI’s technology governance framework. The role sets the strategic direction for technology investments and their integration across the enterprise technology landscape. This position ensures technology initiatives align with business goals, regulatory requirements, and healthcare transformation priorities.

The Director collaborates with IT and business leaders to establish standards, improve efficiency, drive value, and foster innovation across clinical, research, finance, supply chain, and operations. This role is critical to advancing DFCI’s unified, patient‑centric digital ecosystem and supporting the planned expansion of its oncology‑focused inpatient hospital in Boston.

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.

• Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of the IT governance framework, including governance committees and architecture review processes.
• Design, maintain, and oversee enterprise‑wide IT policies, standards, and procedures across integration, security, access, data management, and system lifecycle domains. Define governance cycles and ensure decisions are transparent, auditable, roadmap‑aligned, and compliant with internal requirements and external standards in partnership with Cybersecurity and Compliance teams.

• Partner with IT leadership, clinical stakeholders, and business leaders to establish enterprise standards, architectural principles, and governance processes that drive operational efficiency and innovation.
• Direct a diverse team consisting of architects, technical analysts, contractors, and external consultants fostering a culture of service excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement. Manage resource allocation, project budgets, and Opex spend as applicable.
• Supervises staff. Hires, develops, and manages staff to achieve organizational goals. Sets clear expectations, delivers feedback, and monitors performance for quality, efficiency, and compliance with policies and procedures. Mentors staff, fosters career growth, and cultivates a positive and productive work environment.

• Ensure visibility for all leadership on new technology investments, their value to the institute, timelines, and resources to ensure transparency, avoiding duplicate efforts or spending.
• Create phased decommissioning plans for technical debt (outdated servers or siloed databases) that pose a risk to the organization's uptime.
• Evaluate and provide technical oversight for major medical device projects such as integrations, patient room platforms, BANs (body area networks), mobile devices, smart sensors, VDIs, and telehealth technology, and related digital transformation efforts that support DFCI’s future cancer hospital.

• Collaborate with vendors to facilitate demos, RFIs, and RFPs in partnership with Procurement/Supply Chain, Finance, HR, and IT teams regarding new technology investments.
• Partner with business leaders, IT teams, and vendors to ensure alignment of enterprise architecture with organizational strategy and objectives. Monitor and enforce compliance with vendors via internal policies, industry regulations, and security standards. Identify and mitigate risks associated with technology architecture.

• Establish and monitor governance metrics and…