Vice Chair – Application Development
Location: Rochester
Posted on: June 23, 2025
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Job Description:
Mayo Clinic’s tech culture is rooted in passion for technology,
embraces innovative thinking and strives for high performance. Our
teams drive change in health care through comprehensive connected
health and digital transformation strategies. Some examples of our
major initiatives are: • Utilizing artificial intelligence and
machine learning principles to develop next generation patient
centric care systems • Transforming the practice by applying data
science techniques to discover new approaches to health care
delivery • Leveraging Enterprise Architecture to construct
integration centricity, promote data liquidity, and provide
innovation support This transformation creates, connects and
applies integrated knowledge to deliver the best health care,
health guidance and health information to patients, customers,
partners, providers, employees anywhere and anytime so the needs of
the patient come first. Why Mayo Clinic Mayo Clinic is top-ranked
in more specialties than any other care provider according to U.S.
News & World Report. As we work together to put the needs of the
patient first, we are also dedicated to our employees, investing in
competitive compensation and comprehensive benefit plans – to take
care of you and your family, now and in the future. And with
continuing education and advancement opportunities at every turn,
you can build a long, successful career with Mayo Clinic. Benefits
Highlights • Medical: Multiple plan options. • Dental: Delta Dental
or reimbursement account for flexible coverage. • Vision:
Affordable plan with national network. • Pre-Tax Savings: HSA and
FSAs for eligible expenses. • Retirement: Competitive retirement
package to secure your future. Responsibilities The Vice Chair of
Application Development has a focus on providing a high-quality
application development service internally to Mayo Clinic to create
custom developed applications utilizing the most modern techniques
in a hybrid multi-cloud environment. These application development
services will be provided to a broad set of Mayo Clinic areas
including clinical, research, education, administration and other
Mayo business lines. The Vice Chair of Application Development
needs to have proven experience leading an application development
organization of 100 software engineers, establishing software
development standards, ensuring high quality outcomes, and creating
and running an efficient organization. The Vice Chair will work
cooperatively with the other vice chairs and leaders across the
Digital Technology organization to achieve our Bold. Forward.
aspirations. The Vice Chair reports to the CIO. This function will
leverage a blended model of dedicated engineers and staff
augmentation including the use of an Offshore Development Center.
As an enterprise leader, the vice chair has a scope of operations
that include Mayo Clinic Rochester, Mayo Clinic Heath System,
Florida and Arizona. The vice chair is accountable for ensuring the
most effective and efficient application development services,
strategies, plans, technologies, processes, standards, and skills.
The vice chair is responsible for ensuring related services and
projects meet or exceed expectations, are delivered on time, and on
budget. Responsibilities include: • Designing, implementing and
continuously improving a core application development capability
that leverages modern techniques, automation, and AI to achieve
exceptional results. • Refining and applying Mayo’s SDLC to ensure
that software produced is of the highest quality • Is a member of
the Department of Information Technology and the senior management
team of the department. • Will develop organizational structure and
processes to ensure convergence and efficient operations of
assigned activities. • Works closely with physician and
administrative partners to develop strategies and tactics required
to meet organizational objectives. • Coordinates support activities
with business owners, shield leaders, and corresponding
administrative functions of IT, Finance, Human Resources, and
additional administrative functions. • Responsible for development
of operating expense and capital budgets within the guidelines of
the organizations overall goals and objectives. • Monitors
organizational performance related to such budgets and supports the
CIO in assuring the organization operates in a cost-effective
manner. • Carries out responsibilities assigned by the CIO The Vice
Chair is a contributing member of the Mayo Clinic technology
organization and reports to either the Chief Digital Officer or the
Chief Information Officer. The Vice Chair will play a pivotal role
in transforming technology at Mayo Clinic including implementation
of a flexible, outcomes-focused organizational framework designed
to better support innovation. This model establishes clear
decision-making rights and consistent prioritization for major
technological initiatives, improves key technologies, enhances our
talent, and fosters inspired thought leadership along with an
outcomes-focused culture. The Vice Chair works cooperatively with
physicians, department chairs, administrative colleagues, and
allied health staff across Mayo Clinic. They may also serve as a
liaison to sites, other Mayo business entities, or other
Administration. The Vice Chair participates in planning and
implementation of the strategic and operational objectives in
support of Mayo Clinic’s technology goals. The Vice Chair is
accountable for providing guidance, leadership development, and
administrative support to their teams and assigned committees. This
role partners closely with physician/scientist allies to foster a
category of one data and digital ecosystem through collaboration
spanning the sites, shields and administrative shared services. A
Vice Chair ensures their organization, and themselves personally,
achieve the outcomes as defined by the CIO/CDO. They build a world
class team of experts and creates a culture of excellence,
efficiency and innovation. As an enterprise leader, the Vice Chair
has a scope of operations with all Mayo Clinic business entities.
The Vice Chair is accountable for ensuring that the
functions/operations of their area meet site and other Mayo
business entity strategic objectives while keeping Mayo Clinic
mission and values at the forefront. They develop organizational
structures and processes to ensure convergence and efficient
operations of assigned activities. The Vice Chair is accountable
for ensuring the most effective and efficient enterprise technology
services, strategies, plans, technologies, processes, standards,
and skills. The Vice Chair coordinates support activities with site
leadership, Mayo business entity leaders, and corresponding
administrative functions. They may also work closely with physician
and administrative partners to develop strategies and tactics
required to meet organizational objectives. The Vice Chair will
collaborate closely with the other leaders in the technology
organization. They coordinate with the Chief Information Security
Officer to ensure the implementation of security and privacy
policies. The Vice Chair is responsible for the development of
operating expense and capital budgets within the guidelines of the
organizations overall goals and objectives. They may also partner
closely with other organizations and vendors, and manage those
relationships at the highest level, to ensure to meet Mayos vision.
They also monitor organizational performance related to such
budgets and support the CDO/CIO in assuring the organization
operates in a cost-effective manner. The Vice Chair carries out
responsibilities assigned by the CDO/CIO and acts on their behalf
in their absence to ensure continuity of all organizational
operations, in accordance with the prescribed standards,
philosophy, and policies. As a hybrid role, this is a work
arrangement that supports a combination of offsite (remote) and
on-site work according to business needs. Must be located within
driving distance of one Mayo Clinic campus in Rochester, MN;
Jacksonville, FL or Phoenix, AZ.Relocation assistance is available
to those who qualify. Qualifications A bachelor’s degree in
technology, health care administration or related field; a minimum
of ten years of significant leadership and management experience is
required. Leadership and management experience must include working
with physicians and allied health staff in a variety of
assignments. Must have demonstrated competencies in leadership,
management, operations, finance, and excellent communication
skills. Master’s degree preferred. A Vice Chair models behaviors
that contribute to success by embodying Mayo values, maintaining a
customer-centric approach, fostering innovation in alignment with
unified goals, demonstrating accountability and ambition, being
flexible and adaptable, exhibiting curiosity and empowerment,
relying on data and value-driven decisions, and maintaining an
action-oriented mindset. A Vice Chair must have administrative
experience working with physicians, administrators, and allied
health staff and a demonstrated ability to partner with senior
leadership within the technology organization. A Vice Chair must
have exceptional business acumen, the demonstrated ability to drive
transformational change, excellent communication, both internal and
customer facing, as well as strong team building and collaboration
skills. A Vice Chair must have the demonstrated ability to
consolidate multiple related activities into a comprehensive
program and the ability to effectively manage budgets and drive
efficiency in operations. A Vice Chair must have the demonstrated
ability to drive transformational change, and the ability to stay
abreast and incorporate industry trends
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