Director - Technology Activation

Mount Sinai Medical Center•Miami Beach, FL

About The Position

The Director - Technology Activation leads the strategic planning, governance, and execution of IT activities supporting hospital construction, renovation, physician practice expansion, facility modernization, and capital improvement projects. The role establishes enterprise standards, methodologies, templates, and governance processes for delivering IT throughout the construction lifecycle, from early planning and design through occupancy, go-live, and post-implementation stabilization. The Director represents Information Technology on capital planning, design, construction, activation, and transition committees, ensuring IT requirements are integrated into every project phase. This position coordinates technical teams and internal and external partners, manages multiple concurrent projects and their budgets, schedules, risks, resources, and dependencies, and reports portfolio status to the CIO and senior leadership. The Director also builds and leads a team responsible for technology workstreams associated with capital construction initiatives.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Healthcare Administration, or a related field.
10 years of experience in Healthcare Information Technology, Project Management, construction projects, or related experience.

Nice To Haves

PMP certification is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead strategic planning, governance, and execution of IT activities supporting construction, renovation, practice expansion, facility modernization, and capital improvement projects.
Develop and maintain enterprise standards, methodologies, templates, and governance processes for IT delivery in construction and facilities projects.
Serve as the single point of accountability for IT activities throughout the construction lifecycle, from planning and design through occupancy, go-live, and stabilization.
Represent Information Technology on capital planning, design, construction, activation, and transition committees.
Ensure IT requirements are identified, documented, communicated, and integrated throughout all phases of construction projects.
Lead IT participation in transition planning, site walkthroughs, punch-list inspections, integrated testing, and operational readiness assessments.
Coordinate infrastructure, networking, cybersecurity, telecommunications, applications, endpoint engineering, audiovisual, clinical engineering, and operational IT teams.
Partner with Facilities, Design & Construction, Clinical Operations, Biomedical Engineering, Security, Supply Chain, Real Estate, and executive leadership.
Coordinate work among architects, engineers, general contractors, electricians, cabling and telecommunications vendors, furniture vendors, audiovisual integrators, software vendors, and other third parties.
Ensure ownership, communication, issue resolution, and accountability across internal and external stakeholders.
Oversee technology planning, evaluate vendor recommendations, and ensure compliance with enterprise technology standards.
Manage a portfolio of concurrent construction and facility technology projects with competing priorities and aggressive timelines.
Develop integrated project plans, milestones, risk assessments, issue logs, resource plans, and readiness checklists.
Monitor budgets, schedules, dependencies, and resource utilization; identify risks and implement mitigation strategies.
Ensure IT deliverables meet construction milestones and occupancy dates.
Prepare and present executive portfolio dashboards and monthly status reports for the CIO and senior leadership, covering progress, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions requiring attention.
Build and lead a high-performing team responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing technology workstreams for capital construction initiatives.