VP, Enterprise Applications & Platforms

AMSURG•Nashville, TN

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

The VP, Enterprise Applications & Platforms is an executive role accountable for the application ecosystem supporting center operations, revenue-cycle performance, enterprise financial systems, and the enterprise application foundation. Reporting to the CIO and serving on the IT Core Leadership Team, this executive sets strategy, governance, and organizational accountability across clinical, financial, integration, and platform capabilities. The role is accountable for uptime, reliability, and performance while driving modernization, automation, and AI enablement. As a leader of leaders, the VP partners across business, clinical, financial, and technology teams to turn applications and data into secure, scalable enterprise assets that deliver measurable business outcomes. The role provides executive leadership and oversight for enterprise applications, revenue-cycle technology, data platforms, and related capabilities. It establishes strategy, governance, portfolio management, lifecycle and service delivery practices, operational resilience, and financial stewardship. It also leads the organization responsible for application delivery and support, and communicates strategy, performance, risks, priorities, and modernization opportunities to senior leadership and stakeholders. AMSURG operates more than 250 ambulatory surgery centers nationwide, partnering with physicians and health systems to deliver care across specialties including gastroenterology, ophthalmology, and orthopedics. The stated work schedule is remote-centric hybrid.

Requirements

Extensive technology leadership experience leading enterprise applications, revenue-cycle technology, data platforms, and large-scale technology organizations in complex environments.
Track record delivering enterprise transformation, including application modernization, platform optimization, integrations, standardization, and operational stabilization.
Strong foundation in IT governance and operations, including service management, change and release governance, risk management, production support, and regulated healthcare environments.
Demonstrated business and financial acumen, including experience managing budgets, technology investments, vendor contracts, operating expenses, and value realization.
Experience leading enterprise service delivery, vendor partnerships, managed services, and geographically distributed teams, with accountability for performance and outcomes.
Healthcare technology leadership experience required, with knowledge of clinical, revenue-cycle, financial, operational, integration, and corporate application ecosystems.
Exceptional executive presence and communication skills; ability to influence stakeholders, build trusted relationships, and translate complex technology concepts into business value.
High emotional intelligence and people leadership capability, with a history of developing high-performing teams, leading through change, navigating ambiguity, and driving continuous improvement.
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university required.
At least 12 years of progressive IT experience, including significant leadership responsibility across enterprise applications, revenue-cycle technology, data platforms, or related functions.
At least five years of experience in the healthcare provider industry.
Experience leading large-scale clinical and technology system implementations, growth-related integrations, or enterprise transformation programs.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree preferred.

Responsibilities

Serve as a senior member of the IT Core Leadership Team and executive owner for enterprise applications, revenue-cycle technology, data platforms, and related platform capabilities, aligning them with organizational strategy, growth, operational performance, financial outcomes, and AI readiness.
Establish and advance the enterprise application strategy, roadmap, governance model, operating framework, and accountability structure.
Ensure the performance, reliability, security, compliance, resilience, interoperability, supportability, and lifecycle health of clinical, enterprise, revenue-cycle, data, integration, and platform environments.
Lead enterprise application portfolio governance, including demand intake, prioritization, funding alignment, lifecycle planning, risk management, performance oversight, modernization, rationalization, retirement, and business-value alignment.
Direct the full application lifecycle and service delivery model, including selection, implementation, optimization, integration, production support, administration, enhancements, testing, release and change management, upgrades, conversions, standardization, and operational stabilization.
Lead and develop the organization responsible for enterprise application delivery, production and integration support, business engagement, and continuous improvement; build leadership bench strength, clarify accountability, support succession planning, and foster collaboration, service excellence, and operational discipline.
Partner with executive, business, clinical, financial, operational, compliance, cybersecurity, infrastructure, procurement, legal, project, and vendor leaders to align technology capabilities, contracts, service levels, scope, value realization, renewals, escalations, and enterprise priorities.
Oversee service performance, operational risk, and resilience, including application availability, service levels, customer satisfaction, vendor performance, incident, problem, change, release, and service management, access governance, user provisioning, segregation of duties, disaster recovery, business continuity, runbooks, and operational readiness testing.
Steward application-related operating and capital budgets, software costs, managed services, vendor spending, and investment planning; balance internal capabilities, external partners, and managed services to deliver sustainable, cost-effective, high-quality technology services.
Communicate application strategy, operational performance, risks, priorities, modernization opportunities, automation capabilities, emerging technology value, and major initiative progress to senior leadership and stakeholders.
Perform other duties as assigned and uphold company conduct, ethics, policies, procedures, compliance reporting, and mandatory training obligations.