Banner Health · 8 hours ago
Senior Director, Technology Governance
Phoenix, AZ
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expBanner Health is a nationally-recognized healthcare leader seeking an executive to provide leadership for its enterprise technology governance structure. The role involves overseeing the governance lifecycle, ensuring alignment with corporate financial goals, and leading a team of governance professionals to enhance technology decision-making across the organization.
Health CareInsuranceNon Profit
Responsibilities
Develops, manages, and optimizes the governance operating budget, ensuring alignment with corporate financial goals and technology strategy
Oversees vendor relationships for governance tools, portfolio management systems, and related consulting services
Partners with Finance to ensure business case financials including operating/capital projections, ROI, TCO, and multi-year portfolio impacts are accurate and standardized across submissions
Monitors governance-related expenses, ensuring strong financial stewardship and transparency
Articulates the governance strategy and operating model across Digital, Data & Analytics, and IT Foundation teams, ensuring clarity of roles, responsibilities, and decision-making pathways
Translates governance principles into actionable processes, policies, templates, and playbooks that mature Banner’s technology investment discipline
Drives enterprise-wide adoption of governance standards through communication, education, and change management
Plans, manages, and facilitates cross-functional governance forums, steering committees, and executive-level councils
Prepares strategic investment materials, business case summaries, dashboards, and executive briefings for senior leadership and Board-level committees
Ensures governance forums operate with clarity, consistency, and efficiency driving timely escalation, prioritization, and decision-making
Maintains structured oversight and lifecycle monitoring of strategic technology investments, ensuring accountability to approved scope, value, and outcomes
Ensures accurate and timely decision-making inputs, maintains structured governance artifacts, and drives disciplined evaluation of technology investments based on strategic alignment, financial justification, risk, and enterprise value
Serves as the primary liaison between technology leadership, operational leaders, finance partners, and governance committees, providing executive-ready materials, analyses, and recommendations that enable informed technology investment decisions
Defines KPIs, scorecards, and reporting mechanisms that measure governance effectiveness, portfolio maturity, decision cycle time, and strategic alignment
Provides ongoing transparency into technology investments through dashboards, governance summaries, risk reports, prioritization rankings, and portfolio analytics
Ensures governance decisions, rationales, and actions are documented, traceable, and communicated to all relevant stakeholders
Engages business staff and leaders throughout company to facilitate business case development, intake processes, and governance review cycles
Partners with business owners, technology leaders, and finance teams to develop clear, complete, standardized business cases including strategic intent, financial analysis, risk profiles, and measurable outcomes
Ensures cross-functional alignment between intake teams, project managers, portfolio leaders, and subcommittee chairs to maintain governance flow and accuracy
Supports leaders in strengthening submissions and refining investment proposals based on strategic criteria
Oversees the creation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of governance policies, processes, charters, and decision frameworks
Ensures governance activities align with organizational priorities, technology strategy, regulatory requirements, and risk thresholds
Works at a peer level with senior technology executives to enable consistent evaluation and prioritization of enterprise-wide initiatives
Leads the development and maturity of governance capabilities, tools, and operating rhythms across the technology organization
Supports technology leadership in driving strategic priorities, communications, and initiatives that advance organizational effectiveness and execution of the technology strategy
Has oversight of digital programs, clinical and non-clinical applications, infrastructure modernization, cybersecurity investments, data and analytics initiatives, enterprise platforms, vendor solutions, and innovation pilots
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Computer Science, or a related field is required, or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience
A minimum of ten years of progressively responsible experience in technology governance, enterprise portfolio management, technology strategy, or large-scale program oversight within a complex, multi-operational organization
Must demonstrate expert-level knowledge of enterprise technology governance frameworks, intake and demand management processes, business case evaluation, and structured decision-making models
Experience facilitating senior leadership forums, driving cross-functional collaboration, and advancing technology investments through formal governance structures is essential
Strong financial acumen is required, including the ability to interpret and develop multi-year investment plans, evaluate capital and operating impacts, and collaborate effectively with finance leaders
The role requires exceptional communication and executive facilitation skills; proven success navigating complex organizational landscapes; and the ability to manage ambiguity, build consensus, and influence decision-making at the highest levels
Must also demonstrate experience managing vendor relationships, overseeing governance tools or platforms, and leading teams of governance or strategic planning professionals
Proficiency with Microsoft 365 and modern collaboration tools
Preferred
Master's degree in Business, Healthcare Administration, Information Systems, Public Health, or a related field is strongly preferred
Advanced certifications such as Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), ITIL certification, PMI-ACP, Lean Six Sigma, or comparable credentials are highly desirable and reflect the professional maturity expected in this role
At least three years of leadership experience in a healthcare system or similarly regulated industry is highly preferred
Experience implementing or optimizing enterprise governance frameworks, integrating portfolio management tools, or developing cross-functional investment prioritization models
Experience partnering with senior technology, digital, and analytics leaders to shape strategic investment plans, evaluate emerging technologies, and guide enterprise technology alignment decisions
Healthcare experience, including familiarity with regulatory, security, privacy, and compliance considerations, is especially valuable
Additional education or leadership development in strategic planning, organizational change, enterprise risk management, and value realization frameworks is beneficial and reinforces the capabilities required for success in this role
Benefits
The option to participate in a variety of health, financial, and security benefits
Management Incentive Program as part of your Total Rewards package
Company
Banner Health
Banner Health operates as a nonprofit health care system in the United States. The company offers hospital care, home care, hospice care,
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknownKey Investors
Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation
2025-10-24Grant
Leadership Team
Andy Kramer Petersen
President & CEO Banner Health Foundation
Brian P. Kellar
Chief Executive Officer
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