Director of Technology & Architecture

Find Your Career at Jefferson Center for Mental Health•Wheat Ridge, CO

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Director is a strong communicator and collaborative leader who provides architectural oversight and technical guidance to engineering, infrastructure, and application teams—but is not the primary owner of hands-on execution. Instead, the Director partners with technical leads, managed service providers, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure solutions are well-designed, supportable, scalable, and compliant with healthcare and behavioral health regulations. Hybrid opportunity.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in healthcare IT, with strong understanding of healthcare operations, regulatory frameworks, and architecture patterns.
3+ years of behavioral or mental health technology experience, with familiarity across EHRs, clinical workflows, telehealth, and privacy rules.
Demonstrated expertise architecting enterprise infrastructure, networks, cloud platforms, and clinical application ecosystems.
Proven ability to lead through influence, setting direction and standards while relying on teams, vendors, and MSPs for execution.
Exceptional communication skills with ability to translate complex architecture concepts for non-technical audiences.

Nice To Haves

Experience with behavioral health EHRs (Credible, Netsmart, Qualifacts, Athena Cx360, etc.).
Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or healthcare interoperability standards experience (FHIR, HL7).
Experience designing IT for 24/7 behavioral health operations, including crisis stabilization units.
Cloud, networking, or security certifications (Azure/AWS Architect, CCNP/CCDP, CISSP).

Responsibilities

Enterprise Architecture & Technology Strategy Lead definition and governance of enterprise technology architecture for infrastructure, networks, cloud, cybersecurity, data, and clinical applications.
Develop architectural standards, reference models, and guiding principles that support a modern, scalable behavioral healthcare ecosystem.
Partner with the CIO to establish long-term technology roadmaps that align with organizational growth, regulatory needs, and clinical workflows.
Conduct architectural reviews, assess proposed solutions, and provide recommendations to ensure interoperability, security, and sustainability.
Infrastructure, Cloud & Network Architecture Architect enterprise infrastructure strategies across data centers, cloud platforms (Azure/AWS), hybrid environments, and multi-site network connectivity.
Define standards for network segmentation, site connectivity, wireless, telephony, and resilience across residential, outpatient, crisis, and administrative programs.
Oversee disaster recovery architectures, high-availability frameworks, and continuity-of operations planning (COOP).
Ensure infrastructure designs align with budgetary parameters, lifecycle expectations, and long-term maintainability.
Behavioral Health Systems Architecture Provide architectural leadership across the behavioral health application stack, including EHRs, telehealth platforms, case management, ePrescribing, and interoperability layers.
Evaluate and recommend behavioral health–centric technologies that enhance clinical operations, patient engagement, and regulatory compliance.
Guide data integration strategy—including API frameworks, FHIR, HL7, and secure data exchange between clinical and administrative systems.
Governance, Standards & Compliance Establish architecture governance processes, including design reviews, solution approval workflows, and change-management alignment.
Ensure all technology decisions adhere to HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, and behavioral health privacy and security requirements.
Collaborate with cybersecurity and compliance teams to incorporate security-by-design principles into all enterprise systems.
Leadership & Cross-Functional Collaboration Serve as a “player-coach” who provides deep technical insight and mentorship while empowering engineering teams and MSPs to execute.
Influence and guide without micromanagement—ensuring teams have clarity on architectural intent, technical direction, and quality expectations.
Communicate architectural decisions clearly to clinicians, executives, operations leaders, and vendor partners.
Support vendor evaluations, contract discussions, and solution assessments with an architecture-first perspective.