Director Of Engineering

Location:

Remote (Preference for New Jersey-Based Candidates)

Type:
Contract-to-Hire

Industry: Healthcare

Duration: 12-Month Contract with Expected Conversion

We are seeking a Director of Network Data & Voice to lead the strategy, engineering, operations, and modernization of a large-scale enterprise network and communications environment supporting hospitals, ambulatory facilities, and remote locations across a major healthcare organization. This is a highly visible leadership role responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of mission-critical infrastructure supporting clinical and business operations 24x7.

This position will oversee multiple infrastructure teams responsible for networking, unified communications, telecom services, contact center technologies, and enterprise connectivity. The ideal candidate is a proven leader of leaders with deep enterprise networking expertise, strong operational discipline, and experience managing large technical organizations.

• Direct strategy, architecture, engineering, and operations for a large-scale enterprise network supporting hospitals, data centers, and hundreds of remote locations.
• Lead teams responsible for LAN, WAN, WLAN, data center networking, routing, switching, fiber infrastructure, and connectivity services.
• Manage enterprise firewall environments, network security infrastructure, and resilient connectivity solutions.
• Oversee network modernization initiatives, circuit optimization, carrier management, and infrastructure lifecycle planning.
• Act as executive escalation point for high-priority infrastructure incidents and service disruptions.

• Own the enterprise Unified Communications strategy, including Cisco CUCM, Contact Center, VoIP, collaboration platforms, and telecom services.
• Lead voice migrations, platform consolidations, SIP trunking initiatives, and telecom modernization efforts.
• Drive adoption of emerging communication technologies, automation, and AI-enabled customer engagement solutions.
• Ensure highly available voice and contact center services across the enterprise.

• Develop and execute multi-year technology roadmaps for network and communications platforms.
• Support mergers, acquisitions, new facility integrations, and enterprise-wide technology deployments.
• Ensure infrastructure standards, governance, and best practices are established and maintained.
• Lead large-scale initiatives while minimizing impact to business and clinical operations.

• Manage managers, supervisors, engineers, technicians, and operational support teams.
• Develop high-performing teams through mentoring, succession planning, and workforce development.
• Own multi-million-dollar capital and operational budgets.
• Negotiate vendor contracts and manage strategic partnerships with technology providers and telecommunications carriers.
• Drive operational excellence through service management, performance metrics, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience overseeing enterprise network and communications infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience leading large technical organizations and managing managers.
• Experience supporting complex, geographically distributed enterprise environments with thousands of users and hundreds of locations.
• Strong expertise in:
• Cisco Routing & Switching
• LAN/WAN/WLAN Infrastructure
• Palo Alto Firewalls
• Fortinet Firewalls
• Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM)
• Contact Center Technologies (UCCX, Webex Contact Center, or similar)
• Voice & Telecom Infrastructure
• Experience managing vendor relationships, carriers, and enterprise technology partners.
• Strong understanding of ITIL service management and 24x7 operations.
• Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills.

This is a Contract position based out of Jersey City, NJ.

The pay range for this position is $100.00 - $120.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Eligibility requirements…