Senior VP, Chief AI, Data & Infrastructure Officer

Overview

Primary City/State: Phoenix, Arizona

Department Name: IT Info Tech Admin-Corp

Work Shift: Day

Job Category: Information Technology

The SVP, Chief AI, Data & Infrastructure Officer is the organization’s intelligence trailblazer—an architect of transformational change who unites cutting-edge AI, enterprise-grade data ecosystems, and modern infrastructure into a powerful engine for innovation. This leader turns possibility into performance, accelerating growth, enabling new business models, and propelling the company into a future where intelligence fuels every decision, interaction, and outcome.

Your pay and benefits are important components of your journey at Banner Health. This opportunity includes the option to participate in a variety of health, financial, and security benefits. In addition, this position may be eligible for our Management Incentive Program as part of your Total Rewards package.

Within Banner Health Corporate, you will have the opportunity to apply your unique experience and expertise in support of a nationally-recognized healthcare leader. We offer stimulating and rewarding careers in a wide array of disciplines. Whether your background is in Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Managed Care Programs or Public Relations, you'll find many options for contributing to our award-winning patient care.

This position serves as a strategic enterprise leader responsible for advancing the organization’s artificial intelligence, data, infrastructure, and operational technology strategies. This senior leader role ensures that foundational technology and infrastructure, data, and AI capabilities enable clinical excellence, operational performance, and digital innovation aligned with Banner Health’s mission and growth strategy. As a senior member of the Technology Leadership Team, the CADIO partners closely with digital, engineering, and business leaders to build a secure, scalable, and intelligent technology ecosystem.

This role drives the enterprise AI strategy, leading the development, implementation, and governance of AI capabilities that improve care delivery, decision-making, and workforce efficiency.

• AI Strategy and Implementation - Work closely with CTO to define and lead Banner Health’s enterprise AI strategy, ensuring alignment with clinical, operational, and digital transformation priorities. Partner with business and clinical executives to identify, prioritize, and scale high-value AI use cases that enhance care delivery, efficiency, and outcomes. Establish and mature AI platforms, frameworks, and governance models that support responsible, secure, and scalable AI deployment across the enterprise.
  
  Drive integration of AI and automation into clinical, operational, and administrative workflows to improve quality, reduce cost, and enhance workforce productivity. Champion ethical and transparent AI practices, ensuring compliance, explainability, and bias mitigation. Cultivate AI literacy and adoption across leadership and operational teams through education and change management initiatives.
• Data and Analytics - Define and lead the enterprise data and analytics vision and strategy, positioning data as a strategic asset that powers clinical excellence, operational agility, and innovation. Advance the evolution of the enterprise cloud data ecosystem, integrating diverse data sources, including clinical, operational, payer, and external data, into a unified, intelligent data platform that supports large-scale analytics and AI.
  
  Architect and modernize data platforms and pipelines to deliver real-time, high-quality, and interoperable data, leveraging modern paradigms such as data mesh, streaming, and serverless architectures for scalability and speed. Establish and own enterprise data governance and stewardship frameworks, ensuring data integrity, lineage, privacy, and compliance while enabling secure, democratized access through self-service analytics and governed data marketplaces. Drive advanced analytics capabilities, embedding predictive, prescriptive, and real-time insights into clinical, operational, and business workflows…