Director Data Center & Enterprise Operations

Location: AAO Oak Brook - 2025 Windsor Dr

Department

12232 Enterprise Corporate - Data Centers & Disaster Recovery

Status

Full time

Benefits Eligible

Yes

Hours Per Week

40

Schedule Details/Additional Information

This role can be 100% remote.

Pay Range

$75.40 - $120.65

JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY

Provides operational and strategic direction for Information Technology (IT) solution development projects and implemented system support. Directs the selection, design, development, release, and maintenance of IT solutions and integration interfaces. Resolves complex operational and organizational issues within and beyond engineering and service provider teams to enable multi-platform solution development and support. Assesses project viability and recommends strategies and tactics.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

Lead Data Center and Enterprise Operations, with responsibility for Data Center Management, Compute/Server Operations, Storage & Backup, Middleware Operations, and Enterprise Infrastructure Monitoring, providing overall leadership and accountability for the teams that operate and support the company’s critical production infrastructure.

Own the operational availability and reliability of enterprise infrastructure, ensuring data center, compute/server, storage and backup, middleware, and infrastructure monitoring services are proactively monitored, maintained, and operated to established availability, performance, resiliency, and service-level expectations.

Provide 24x7 operational leadership and infrastructure incident response, ensuring effective event detection, triage, escalation, service restoration, and operational coordination during infrastructure incidents, while partnering closely with Major Incident Management, Disaster Recovery, Engineering, Cybersecurity, and Application Support to minimize business impact and accelerate recovery.

Drive operational excellence and service management, establishing consistent practices and accountability across change, incident, problem, event, capacity, configuration, patching, maintenance, and technology lifecycle management, with a focus on improving service stability, reducing repeat incidents and operational risk, increasing automation, and minimizing manual effort.

Own data center operational readiness and infrastructure continuity, ensuring facility and technology coordination, environmental monitoring, hardware deployment and maintenance, backup and recovery operations, capacity management, and infrastructure recovery readiness, while partnering with Disaster Recovery and Engineering to ensure critical infrastructure can be effectively recovered when required.

Develop the operations organization and continuously improve how infrastructure services are delivered, building strong technical leaders, teams, and operational capabilities while advancing automation, observability, proactive monitoring, operational metrics, runbook maturity, vendor management, and continuous service improvement to increase efficiency, consistency, and service reliability.

Manages and provides support for changes/enhancements by assigning projects to appropriate personnel ensuring that staff has adequate training and understanding of project context within Advocate, ensuring that proper analysis, testing, and user consultation procedures are followed and that projects are executed within cost and time constraints to meet requirements.

Oversees the implementation, training and support associated with designated solutions are accomplished in a manner that operationalizes cultural and organizational change management processes and facilitates achievement of project goals.

Consults with users to identify, evaluate, and formulate strategies to deal with opportunities for improvements in solutions. Ensures all engineering activities and support efforts are closely coordinated with all business units. Ensures that user personnel remain informed throughout the design and implementation process and is available to user personnel to discuss issues and recommend solutions to challenges. Serves as an escalation point for problem-solving and issue resolution.

Assists with the management of hardware, software and/or consultant contracts and service agreements. Establishes and maintains vendor relationships.

Performs human resources responsibilities for staff which include interviewing and selection of new employees, promotions, staff development, performance evaluations, compensation changes, resolution of employee concerns, corrective actions, terminations, and overall employee morale.

Develops and recommends operating and capital budgets and controls expenditures within approved budget objectives.

Responsible for understanding and adhering to the organization's Code of Ethical Conduct and for ensuring that personal actions, and the actions of employees supervised, comply with the policies, regulations, and laws applicable to the organization's business.

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

Level of Education: Bachelor's degree in information technology or related field

Years of Experience: 7 years in information systems, solution design, systems development, implementation, and installation within a complex environment. Includes 3 years of management experience in project management and managing multi-discipline work teams.

MINIMUM KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSA)

Demonstrated leadership skills and proven track record of managing/directing technical staff and financial resources through various system life cycle phases.

Extensive background in the information service field, including design, programming, testing, implementation, hardware, systems software, and computer operations.

Effective team leadership skills with demonstrated ability to manage multidiscipline, high performance work teams and development groups; demonstrated competency in the execution of multiple projects, including managing resource across multiple projects to meet goals; development of efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex business problems; and demonstrated strong abilities in relationship management.

Broad understanding of cultural and organizational change management processes, including workflow analysis, process re-design, benefits analysis/measurement, training, and support

Strong listening, interpersonal, and critical thinking skills. Active coach and mentor who provides feedback in a quick and accurate manner.

An in-depth understanding of health care systems and capabilities of available technologies in the marketplace.

Strong oral and written communication skills.

Excellent planning and organization skills.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORKING CONDITIONS

This position requires travel, therefore, will be exposed to weather and road conditions.

Operates all equipment necessary to perform the job.

Exposed to a normal office environment.

This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be required to perform other related duties.

Our Commitment to You

Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more – so you can live fully at and away from work, including:

Compensation

• Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training
• Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job
• Incentive pay for select positions
• Opportunity for annual increases based on performance

Benefits and more

• Paid Time Off programs
• Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
• Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs

Educational Assistance Program

Note: Eligibility for programs listed above may depend on your FTE or status (e.g., full-time, part-time, per diem, temporary, etc.); please ask a Recruiter for more information during an interview.

About Advocate Health

Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care.

Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs.

Advocate Health employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, and offers one of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.