Director I Technology

Elevance Health • Chicago, IL

22d • Hybrid

About The Position

Director I Technology Location: This role requires associates to be in-office 3 days per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity, while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work, promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace. Alternate locations may be considered if candidates reside within a commuting distance from an office. Please note that per our policy on hybrid/virtual work, candidates not within a reasonable commuting distance from the posting location(s) will not be considered for employment, unless an accommodation is granted as required by law. The Director I Technology is responsible for delivery of information systems and/or technology services that may include applications, networks, databases, help desk, etc. How you will make an impact: • Negotiates the resolution of intra-organizational issues in the balanced best interests of the business. • Leads financial governance for the AI Product, Services, and Engineering portfolio, including budgeting, forecasting, planning, and variance analysis. • Develops and delivers financial performance dashboards and executive-level reporting, ensuring transparency into spend. • Partners with Finance to evaluate opportunities, assess ROI, and ensure adherence to cost-management targets. • Oversee vendor financial performance, including contract management, cost optimization, and ongoing value realization. • Directs multiple work functions/applications or major projects/programs with broad scope and strategic business impact. • Provides leadership and direction to Scrum Masters, Project Managers, Product Owners, and Technology Directors across multiple delivery teams. • Establishes strong portfolio governance practices including intake, prioritization, resource planning, milestone management, and risk escalation. • Ensures delivery excellence by monitoring KPIs, OKRs, release cadence, and program health metrics. • Drives continuous improvement in agile and project delivery processes, ensuring consistency and maturity across teams. • Ensures disaster recovery and business continuity plan are implemented, monitored, and updated on a recurring basis. • Establishes business objectives and integrates operational plans. • Establishes and maintains collaborative relationships with key business partners. • Translate complex technical strategies into clear, compelling executive narratives supported by strong visual storytelling and PowerPoint presentation design. • Supports the preparation of materials for senior leadership, board-level updates, and enterprise planning cycles, ensuring alignment with corporate strategy. • Drives long-range technology planning and articulates roadmap progress, risks, and dependencies in consumable, stakeholder-appropriate formats. • Shapes enterprise-level recommendations by synthesizing insights from technology, financial, operational, and customer perspectives. • Hires, trains, coaches, counsels, and evaluates the performance of direct reports.

Requirements

• Requires a BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study and a minimum of 7 years of IT management experience; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Nice To Haves

• Ability to manage across geographically diverse associates and vendor partners strongly preferred.
• Ability to manage across geographically dispersed associates and vendor partners strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in financial stewardship for large technology portfolios is preferred.
• Strong strategic communication and PowerPoint narrative development skills is preferred.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional delivery teams, including Scrum Masters, PMs, Product Owners, and Technology Directors is preferred.
• Experience implementing and maturing agile, DevOps, or hybrid delivery methodologies is preferred.
• Ability to influence executive leadership and drive alignment across business and technology organizations is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Negotiates the resolution of intra-organizational issues in the balanced best interests of the business.
• Leads financial governance for the AI Product, Services, and Engineering portfolio, including budgeting, forecasting, planning, and variance analysis.
• Develops and delivers financial performance dashboards and executive-level reporting, ensuring transparency into spend.
• Partners with Finance to evaluate opportunities, assess ROI, and ensure adherence to cost-management targets.
• Oversee vendor financial performance, including contract management, cost optimization, and ongoing value realization.
• Directs multiple work functions/applications or major projects/programs with broad scope and strategic business impact.
• Provides leadership and direction to Scrum Masters, Project Managers, Product Owners, and Technology Directors across multiple delivery teams.
• Establishes strong portfolio governance practices including intake, prioritization, resource planning, milestone management, and risk escalation.
• Ensures delivery excellence by monitoring KPIs, OKRs, release cadence, and program health metrics.
• Drives continuous improvement in agile and project delivery processes, ensuring consistency and maturity across teams.
• Ensures disaster recovery and business continuity plan are implemented, monitored, and updated on a recurring basis.
• Establishes business objectives and integrates operational plans.
• Establishes and maintains collaborative relationships with key business partners.
• Translate complex technical strategies into clear, compelling executive narratives supported by strong visual storytelling and PowerPoint presentation design.
• Supports the preparation of materials for senior leadership, board-level updates, and enterprise planning cycles, ensuring alignment with corporate strategy.
• Drives long-range technology planning and articulates roadmap progress, risks, and dependencies in consumable, stakeholder-appropriate formats.
• Shapes enterprise-level recommendations by synthesizing insights from technology, financial, operational, and customer perspectives.
• Hires, trains, coaches, counsels, and evaluates the performance of direct reports.

Benefits

• In addition to your salary, Elevance Health offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements).
• We offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include merit increases, paid holidays, Paid Time Off, and incentive bonus programs (unless covered by a collective bargaining agreement), medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, stock purchase plan, life insurance, wellness programs and financial education resources, to name a few.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees