Interim Chief Technology Officer

This is an interim opportunity that is time limited 6 to 12 months.

The mission of the Information Technology Group (ITG) is to develop, implement and maintain technology-based services and solutions to enable OHSU to effectively manage information to accomplish its missions.

Reporting directly to the Senior Vice President and OHSU Chief Information Officer, the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is a member of the ITG executive leadership team and sets the vision, strategy, and direction for OHSU's core technology infrastructure and architecture. The CTO has broad oversight of technology and infrastructure operations, projects and planning, and holds ultimate responsibility for the technology services components of OHSU's strategic and tactical initiatives.

The CTO also positions the organization to adopt emerging technologies in ways that advance OHSU's clinical, research and academic missions.

The most critical function of the role is ensuring the ongoing, 24x7 operation of OHSU systems and networks. A stable, secure and resilient technology environment is vital to business continuity for the university.

The CTO leads the Technology Infrastructure, Design and Engineering (TIDE) Division, which delivers enterprise-wide core technology support including networks, compute and storage, telecommunications support, data centers, design and construction, collaboration and core applications and business continuity.

Technology Management

The strategic role of the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is to establish direction and technology vision, to develop and pursue technical standards, to set general direction around core technology architecture and to evaluate and guide the adoption of emerging technologies. The operational role is to create and maintain the structure necessary to ensure business continuity through a stable technology infrastructure.

These roles translate to the following major responsibilities:

• Responsible for defining a robust, scalable, extensible technology architecture that is fully integrated with the wider enterprise architecture and aligned with industry best practices.
• Responsible for defining engineering and technical standards, processes and procedures for core technology, and ensuring consistent adoption across the division.
• Directs the delivery and ongoing reliability of core technology services, systems and networks. Includes oversight of operational procedures and disaster planning. Ensures infrastructure is designed and maintained in accordance with security standards established by the Chief Information Security Officer and broader enterprise architecture strategy.
• Responsible for establishing IT capacity planning to ensure technology infrastructure meets OHSU’s current and future needs. Proactively identifies technical infrastructure risks, emerging requirements and systems issues, and develops solutions.
• Establishes and oversees performance metrics and measurements for division to inform tactical and long-range decision making.
• Manage departmental operating and capital budgets and partner with Vendor Management to oversee strategic technology vendor relationships and contracts.

Division Leadership

The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) provides supervision and mentoring to Directors and frontline managers in the division. These directors and managers have day-to-day, functional responsibility for their areas and their perspectives are best focused on their individual specializations. The CTO’s role is to ensure that the collective group works in a unified, collaborative, cohesive direction.

ITG Executive Management

The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is a member of the ITG executive management team, which collectively strives toward…