Director, IT Engineering

About this role

Ultimate Medical Academy is a non-profit healthcare educational institution with a national presence. Headquartered in Tampa, Florida and founded in 1994, UMA offers content-rich, interactive online programs as well as hands-on training at our Clearwater, Florida campus. As a full-time team member, you will have access to the following benefits: Medical (including prescription), Dental, Vision (UMA subsidized) FSA/HSA (Depending on Medical Plan chosen) Basic Life Insurance (UMA paid) Additional Voluntary Life Insurance (Team Member paid) Employee Assistance Program – EAP (UMA paid) Long Term Disability (UMA paid) Short Term Disability (Team Member paid) Supplemental Insurance such as Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital (Team Member Paid) Paid Time Off – 15 days accrued in year 1, 9 holidays, and 1 day of Volunteering Time Off 401k (eligible upon completion of 90 days of employment and must be at least 18 years of age) Pet Insurance Identity Theft Protection Purpose of the Position: The Director, IT Engineering provides strategic and technical leadership for the design, implementation, and ongoing management of Vocate’s enterprise engineering capabilities. This role is responsible for building and leading high-performing engineering teams, establishing scalable and secure technology platforms, enabling enterprise shared services, and advancing cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, site reliability engineering, endpoint management, data platform infrastructure, automation, observability, and AI-enabling capabilities. The Director partners closely with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, Data and Analytics, Application Engineering, IT Operations, Finance, Legal, Compliance, Procurement, and business leaders to align engineering solutions with organizational objectives, regulatory requirements, enterprise initiatives, M&A activity, and long-term growth. The role is accountable for service reliability, engineering talent development, budget and vendor management, continuous improvement, and the delivery of secure, resilient, governed, scalable, and cost-effective technology services across Vocate, its institutions, subsidiaries, and future acquisitions. What You’ll Do: Provide Strategic IT Engineering Leadership: Set the vision, multi-year strategy, annual operating plan, technical standards, and roadmap for platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, reliability engineering, endpoint management, observability, automation, data platform infrastructure, and enterprise shared services. Align engineering priorities and investments with organizational objectives, enterprise initiatives, risk requirements, and measurable business outcomes. Build and Scale Platform Engineering Capabilities: Establish and mature platform engineering capabilities from the ground up, including cloud landing zones, infrastructure-as-code, standardized environments, self-service engineering services, CI/CD enablement, configuration automation, policy-as-code, and reusable platform services. Improve delivery speed, consistency, security, scalability, and operational control. Enable Enterprise Shared Services and Architecture: Design, implement, and govern reusable technology services that support multiple institutions, subsidiaries, legal entities, and business models. Apply Enterprise Architecture principles to determine when capabilities should be centrally governed, shared with logical separation, deployed through separate instances, locally operated through governed integration, or physically isolated due to legal, regulatory, contractual, security, or operational requirements. Lead Cloud, Multi-Tenant, and Multi-Entity Architecture: Plan and oversee cloud and hybrid environments, including compute, networking, storage, containers, identity, productivity platforms, SaaS environments, cloud subscriptions, domains, administrative boundaries, access models, and data partitions. Enable secure collaboration, access, productivity, and data

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