Chief Platform Officer

Chief Platform Officer | Remote

The Vice President, Platform serves as the executive leader accountable for the strategy, governance, performance, optimization, and lifecycle management of the ministry's enterprise technology platforms across a large, multi-state and international health system. This role holds final enterprise accountability and decision authority for platform strategy, prioritization, and investment alignment. The Vice President, Platform ensures that clinical, business, consumer, data, and emerging technology platforms operate as integrated capabilities that advance the mission, improve patient and caregiver experiences, enable operational excellence, and support long-term organization growth.

This role establishes enterprise platform ownership, drives measurable value realization, and partners with operational and technology leaders to ensure technology investments deliver system-wide clinical, financial, and community impact.

• Sets the enterprise platform strategy and multi-year roadmap for clinical, business, consumer, data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and emerging technology platforms in alignment with ministry priorities and long-term growth.
• Holds enterprise accountability for platform performance, value realization, adoption, reliability, lifecycle planning, and measurable impact across clinical, operational, financial, caregiver, and consumer outcomes.
• Establishes platform governance, ownership, decision rights, prioritization processes, and accountability structures that align technology investments with enterprise strategy, operational needs, regulatory requirements, and financial objectives.
• Leads enterprise platform portfolio planning, investment prioritization, and resource alignment to optimize cost, reduce duplication, improve utilization, and strengthen stewardship of ministry resources.
• Oversees the strategic direction, modernization, and optimization of core clinical platforms, including electronic health record systems, care delivery technologies, interoperability, and related clinical enablement capabilities.
• Directs enterprise business platform strategy for administrative, finance, human resources, supply chain, revenue cycle, and enterprise resource planning capabilities to improve standardization, integration, and operational performance.
• Advances consumer and digital engagement platform strategy, including digital front door, patient portal, customer relationship management, virtual care, navigation, and access capabilities that improve patient and caregiver experience.
• Enables responsible adoption of artificial intelligence, automation, analytics, and emerging technologies through enterprise platforms to support scalable innovation, ethical use, adoption, and value realization.
• Serves as executive sponsor for strategic vendor, product, and platform partnerships; oversees vendor performance, contract optimization, roadmap alignment, and ecosystem relationships that support enterprise capability and growth.
• Ensures enterprise platforms support regional, affiliate, and international ministry operations while balancing enterprise standardization with necessary local workflow, regulatory, market, and operational requirements.
• Builds, leads, and develops an enterprise platform leadership team, creating clear accountability, succession depth, cross-functional partnership, and high-performing ways of working across clinical, operational, business, and technology domains.
• Integrates the organization's mission, values, equity commitments, and ethical standards into platform strategy, investment decisions, technology governance, and enterprise transformation efforts.

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, Engineering, or related field.
• Fifteen years (15) minimum of progressive leadership experience overseeing enterprise technology platforms, applications, or digital transformation initiatives.
• Experience leading platform strategy and operations within a large, complex healthcare system or similarly regulated enterprise.
• Demonstrated success managing enterprise-scale technology portfolios, budgets, and vendor relationships.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams across clinical, operational, business, and technology domains.

• Master's degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline.
• Certified Healthcare Chief Information Officer (College of Healthcare Information Management Executives)
• Project Management Professional (Project Management Institute)
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (ISC²)
• IT Infrastructure Library Certification (AXELOS)
• Epic Executive Leadership Training
• Workday Platform Leadership Certifications
• Experience with in integrated delivery networks, international healthcare organizations, or faith-based health systems.
• Experience overseeing Epic, Workday, CRM, consumer engagement,…