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# Director of Technology

- **Company:** St. Joseph's Candler
- **Location:** Tucson, AZ, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cyber Security, SQL Databases, System Availability, Meditech
- **Published:** September 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.kirbypartners.com/job/director-technology-job/

## About the Role

Required:

 * Bachelor's degree
 * At least five years of experience in a technical role in Information Services
 * At least three years of leadership responsibility
 * Strategic focus
 * High energy

Desired:

 * Meditech experience
 * Technical certifications (CISSP, MCSE, etc.)
 * Master's degree

## Description

The Director of Technology assists the Chief Information Officer (CIO) in directing the daily activities of Information Systems and Telecommunications for all facilities within St. Joseph's/Candler Healthcare System.

 * Identifies and implements technologies that align with the needs of the business unit
 * Ensures technology is operating at levels that meet or exceed the expectations of the co-worker community by putting into place survey mechanisms and action plans that can be enacted when necessary
 * Demonstrates the attitude of excellent customer service and ensures end users' technology and customer service needs are met
 * Protects hospital systems and data through development of a solid disaster recovery plan, security, and integrity measures as well as redundancy
 * Recruits, manages, and develops staff.
 * Functions as a backup to the CIO and is part of the CIO succession plan

Responsibilities:

 * Develop a technology and information security strategy that is aligned with the strategic plan and budget
 * Strengthen change control process
 * Ensure IT security plan is in place
 * Develop a vision and strategy for SQL database consolidation
 * Evaluate high availability of Meditech
 * Continue uptime of 99.9%


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