Director of Technology & Architecture

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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.

Key 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.

Required Qualifications:

• 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.
Qualifications
• 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).
Core Competencies
• Strategic architecture mindset
• Influential leadership
• Strong communication and stakeholder management
• Healthcare and behavioral health expertise
• Security-first design thinking
• Ability to balance innovation with operational practicality
Working Conditions
• Occasional travel between organizational sites in Colorado
• Availability for critical architecture decisions or escalations

Salary Grade 21: $139,500 to 173,200*

*Jefferson Center pay is based on various factors including education level, licensure level, and years of relative experience.

*The salary range listed above is based on 1.0 FTE (40 hours per week).

Anticipated Close Date: 2/03/2026. Review of applications will begin immediately.