Director, IT Project Manager, IT​/Tech

Job Title:

Director

Location:

SBC Corporation

Department Name: IT&S Clinical Documentation

Req #:

Status:
Salaried

Shift: Day

Pay Range: $ - $ per year

Pay Transparency:

The above reflects the anticipated annual salary range for this position if hired to work in New Jersey.

The compensation offered to the candidate selected for the position will depend on several factors, including the candidate's educational background, skills and professional experience.

The Director of IT Applications provides strategic and operational leadership for a portfolio of enterprise applications across RWJBarnabas Health. This position oversees the full application lifecycle, including design, development, implementation, integration, support, optimization, and governance.

Partnering with senior IT, clinical, operational, administrative, and academic leaders, the Director translates organizational priorities into actionable technology strategies. This leader is responsible for application strategy, team development, staffing, project delivery, resource planning, budgeting, and operational performance while ensuring application teams remain aligned with the broader IT strategic plan and organizational transformation initiatives.

• Leading, coaching, evaluating, and developing application managers and team members

• Establishing performance expectations and holding teams accountable for service, quality, and delivery

• Providing strategic direction for enterprise application design, implementation, support, integration, and optimization

• Overseeing application governance, configuration, documentation, security standards, change prioritization, upgrades, and system communications

• Allocating staffing, labor, and non-labor resources based on organizational priorities and demand

• Directing complex application projects, implementations, upgrades, and optimization initiatives

• Managing project deliverables, timelines, risks, dependencies, and executive-level status reporting

• Partnering with senior operational and IT leaders to assess needs and prioritize application and integration requests

• Coordinating integrated workflows across applications and functional areas

• Preparing and monitoring operating and capital budgets

• Incorporating operational priorities into annual and five-year IT strategic planning

• Evaluating emerging technologies, vendor releases, and opportunities for innovation

• Overseeing customer support, application enhancements, service delivery, and on-call support models

• You have successfully led enterprise application teams in a complex organization

• You have experience implementing large-scale clinical, financial, EHR, or enterprise information systems

• You can translate organizational strategy into actionable application and technology plans

• You have led managers, technical teams, consultants, vendors, and cross-functional project resources

• You are comfortable owning staffing, budgets, project portfolios, operational performance, and competing priorities

• You understand application governance, system integrations, workflows, and enterprise technology operations

• You can build strong partnerships with senior executives, operational leaders, clinicians, technical teams, and other stakeholders

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant work experience

• 5+ years of relevant experience

• Leadership experience implementing financial or clinical information systems and/or large-scale enterprise applications

• Experience with complex enterprise EHR or large application suite standardization and implementation

• Demonstrated people leadership, including recruiting, coaching, performance…