Job Title: Associate Director IT - Software Engineering (Local)
Company Name:
Vanderbilt Health
Location:
Nashville, TN
Position Type:
Full Time
Post Date:
04/01/2026
Expire Date:
05/31/2026
Job Categories:
Engineering, Information Technology, Executive Management
Job Description
Associate Director IT - Software Engineering (Local)
<p><b>Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center</b>: Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health is committed to an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your uniqueness is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt’s mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.</p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:left"><b>Organization:</b></p>HealthIT Product Development<p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:left"><b><u>Job Summary:</u></b></p>Provides organizational and technological leadership for development of enterprise HealthIT solutions by developing goals, objectives, policies and procedures. Responsible for the SDLC and ensuring critical applications and platforms operate at a high level of stability and continue to evolve in line with institutional priorities and industry best practices. Prepares operating budgets and performs personnel administration functions.<p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit">.</p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p><b>KEY RESPONSIBILITIES</b></p><ul><li><p><span>Develops goals and objectives for the department based on interpretation of institutional policy and goals.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Ensures effective operations of the department through program development, process improvement, including the incorporation of AI software development capabilities, and coordination/integration of processes with other teams within and outside of HealthIT.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Identifies, establishes and evaluates quality assurance, security, and privacy standards, programs, and procedures within the department.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Develops staffing plans, justifications, and budgets for product and project investments.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Partners with leaders across HealthIT to plan for and coordinate successful projects in a transparent and collaborative manner.</span></p></li></ul><p></p><p><b>REQUIREMENTS</b></p><ul><li><p>Bachelor's degree (required)</p></li><li><p>Experience leading development teams</p></li><li><p>Healthcare experience (preferred)</p></li></ul><p><br /><b>TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES</b></p><p></p><ul><li><p><span>Leadership (Intermediate): Motivates and inspires others to perform at a high level. Puts aside personal needs and considerations for the good of the team. Communicates in a positive and constructive way, demonstrating an enthusiasm for team and unit goals. Takes appropriate risks, showing and accepting personal accountability for actions and decisions. Gets others to share challenges and perform as a valuable member of the team and unit. Accomplishes results through influence, coaching, communication and commitment with minimal use of authority and control.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Business Results (Intermediate): Develops and implements appropriate measures for attaining multiple business results and tracks progress in meeting goals and objectives. Builds an implementation network that includes key constituents such as peers, subordinates, top management and customers. Emphasizes both short and long-term business goals. Recognizes and capitalizes on business opportunities. Able to detect early warning signs indicating potential issues which may impact customer satisfaction, product quality, or profitability. Effectively contributes to organizational objectives.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Quality Management (Intermediate): Maintains an open mind and appreciation of the "big picture" rather than rushing to traditional or historical conclusions or approaches. Possesses sufficient knowledge, training, and experience to be capable of successfully demonstrating quality management techniques with a group without requiring support and instruction from others. Able to train and educate by setting the example, giving instruction, providing leadership, and generally raising the level of performance of others. Has made and facilitated improvements to business processes within the scope of project assignments. Consistently delivers superior products and services.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Operations Planning (Intermediate): Demonstrates ability to forecast complex resource needs, identify discrete tasks, set priorities, define dependencies, schedule activities, meet deadlines, and organize work for a single functional area. Merges diverse points of view into a coalition with shared goals and objectives. Plans for and anticipates events outside of immediate responsibility. Identifies relevant stakeholders and gains their commitment. Anticipates problems and obstacles before they arise. Able to absorb changes to major assignments while maintaining a high level of performance. Competently handles multiple assignments and projects simultaneously. Sets priorities with a proper sense of urgency and importance. Develops creative ideas and takes innovative action to achieve planned goals and objectives.</span></p></li><li><p><span>People Management (Intermediate): Successfully resolves conflicts and disciplinary problems. Provides counseling and career development planning to subordinates. Constructively gives timely positive and negative feedback, confronting individual performance problems in a professional and sensitive manner. Aware of the values, abilities and needs of others. Demonstrates the ability to create a positive work climate, establishing a feeling of partnership and empowering others. Has set, coached and assessed the assignment objectives of subordinates. Practices and rewards behaviors supportive of company values.</span></p></li></ul><p></p><p><b><u><span>About the Department:</span></u></b></p><p><b><span>Health IT</span></b></p><p><span>HealthIT provides the best health information technology tools that support Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s mission of:</span></p><ul><li><p><span>Delivering distinctively personalized care</span></p></li><li><p><span>Improving the health care of individuals and communities regionally, nationally and internationally</span></p></li><li><p><span>Providing transformative learning programs</span></p></li><li><p><span>Supporting compelling discoveries</span></p></li></ul><p><span>Our tools, which form the digital arteries of VUMC, are either developed in-house by our innovative product teams or selected from the most cutting-edge solutions available in today’s ever-changing marketplace. Our 500 colleagues provide ongoing support over each product’s entire lifespan, ensuring that the tools are meeting the evolving needs of the Medical Center’s 24,000 colleagues.</span></p><p><span>Our solutions are driven by the incredible work and research of our colleagues throughout Vanderbilt and supported through a close partnership with </span><a href="https://www.vumc.org/it/" target="_blank"><span>VUMC Information Technology (VUMC IT)</span></a><span>. The strong collaboration among our teams means that VUMC can respond to clinical and operational issues with agility and innovation. Together, we ensure VUMC remains a leader in its pioneering use of healthcare information technology.</span></p><p><span>Underscoring our entire department are our core values of </span><a href="https://healthit.vumc.org/partner-promise" target="_blank"><span>accountability, transparency and execution</span></a><b><u><span>,</span></u></b><span> delivered with a strong </span><a href="https://healthit.vumc.org/partner-promise" target="_blank"><span>Partner Promise</span></a><span>.</span></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:left">Our professional administrative functions include critical supporting roles in information technology and informatics, finance, administration, legal and community affairs, human resources, communications and marketing, development, facilities, and many more.</p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:left">At our growing health system, we support each other and encourage excellence among all who are part of our workforce. High-achieving employees stay at Vanderbilt Health for professional growth, appreciation of benefits, and a sense of community and purpose.</p><ul></ul><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:left"><u><b>Core Accountabilities:</b></u></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p>* Organizational Impact: Establishes key tactical and operational plans of a sub-function or multiple departments that has longer-term effect on results of the sub-function. * Problem Solving/ Complexity of work: Integrate knowledge and in-depth analysis from several areas to resolve complex problems that are both technical and operational. * Breadth of Knowledge: Applies comprehensive knowledge of professional/technical area and broad management knowledge of other professional areas to carry out objectives. * Team Interaction: Leads multiple departments with a function.<p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:left"><b><u>Core Capabilities</u> : </b></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p>Supporting Colleagues: - Develops Self and Others: Acts upon constructive feedback from all levels of the organization and initiates strategies to develop talent in others. - Builds and Maintains Relationships: Leverages relationships and insight to forecast potential future needs and influence delivery of work to exceed expectations. - Communicates Effectively: Anticipates difference audience concerns, styles and finds mutually beneficial solutions across conflicting and sensitive issues. Delivering Excellent Services: - Serves Others with Compassion: Demonstrates in-depth knowledge of broad-based issues and considers the interests of others to improve satisfaction of services. - Solves Complex Problems: Critically evaluates complex information and identifies trends/risks to make recommendations to improve processes across areas. - Offers Meaningful Advice and Support: Provides ongoing feedback and development discussions to motivate and support team members to maximize performance.Ensuring High Quality: - Performs Excellent Work: Anticipates problems or obstacles which may interfere with quality standards and develops plants to ensure area's quality standards are met. - Ensures Continuous Improvement: Routinely draws upon valuable learning from others, past experiences, and new information to determine key opportunities. - Fulfills Safety and Regulatory Requirements: Develops appropriate corrective actions for unsafe environments in order to ensure operational and safety compliance. Managing Resources Effectively: - Demonstrates Accountability: Identifies potential obstacles to goal achievement and develops solutions to address those obstacles. - Stewards Organizational Resources: Creates the appropriate systems and processes to effectively manage resources. - Makes Data Driven Decisions: Applies in-depth knowledge of data to recommend and implement new approaches to improve decision making capabilities. Fostering Innovation: - Generates New Ideas: Identifies opportunities and leads development of new initiatives that create value across areas. - Applies Technology: Creates the energy and drive for self/others to identify and leverage technology in new, innovative ways to drive greater efficiencies. - Adapts to Change: Anticipates the change process and clearly communicates impact on others/own team(s), assisting them in embracing the change.<p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:left"><b><u>Position Qualifications:</u></b></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:left"><u><b><span>Responsibilities:</span></b></u></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:left"><u><b><span>Certifications:</span></b></u></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:left"><u><b><span>Work Experience:</span></b></u></p>Relevant Work Experience<p style="text-align:inherit"></p><br /><p style="text-align:left"><u><b>Experience Level:</b></u></p>5 years<p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:left"><u><b><span>Education:</span></b></u></p>Bachelor's (Required)<p></p><p><i>Vanderbilt Health is committed to fostering an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and is committed to the principles of equal opportunity. EOE/Vets/Disabled.</i></p><p></p><p></p>
