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Market Director, Information Technology & Services | Healthcare IT | Lake Havasu City, AZ

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Market Director, Information Technology & Services

📍 Location: Lake Havasu City, Arizona 86403
🏥 Work Arrangement: 100% Onsite
💼 Employment Type: Full-Time, Permanent
📈 Experience Level: Senior Leadership
👤 Reports To: Chief Financial Officer
💰 Base Salary: $101,000–$136,000
🕒 Typical Hours: Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM
✈️ Travel: Regular Overnight Travel—Potentially Up to 50%
🚚 Relocation Assistance: Not Available
💵 Sign-On Bonus: Not Available
🚫 Visa Sponsorship: Not Available

Lead Technology That Directly Supports Patient Care

A regional healthcare organization is seeking an experienced Market Director of Information Technology & Services to provide strategic and operational technology leadership across its hospital and assigned market facilities.

Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, this senior leadership position will oversee hospital IT operations, enterprise applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, technology support and service delivery. The Director will ensure clinical and business systems remain reliable, secure and aligned with organizational strategy, regulatory requirements and patient-care priorities.

This is a highly visible, onsite leadership opportunity for an experienced healthcare IT professional who can connect clinical, operational and enterprise teams while delivering secure, dependable and cost-effective technology services.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic IT Leadership

  • Provide strategic leadership and oversight for Information Technology and Services across the assigned healthcare market.

  • Develop and execute a market-level IT strategy aligned with facility and enterprise priorities.

  • Serve as the primary liaison between hospital leadership, market stakeholders and enterprise IT.

  • Ensure local technology requirements are represented during enterprise planning and governance.

  • Translate enterprise technology strategies into effective facility-level implementation plans.

  • Advise executive leadership on technology risks, priorities, investments and emerging opportunities.

  • Contribute to enterprise governance councils and the development of technology, cybersecurity and data-governance standards.

Hospital IT Operations

  • Oversee day-to-day IT operations across assigned facilities.

  • Maintain the reliability, availability and performance of clinical and business systems.

  • Provide leadership across:

    • Hospital applications

    • Electronic Health Record systems

    • Infrastructure and network services

    • Cybersecurity

    • End-user support

    • Data and reporting systems

    • Connected clinical technologies

  • Ensure IT service-management, incident-response and change-management processes are consistently followed.

  • Monitor system performance, service levels and recurring operational issues.

  • Coordinate the response to major incidents and technology disruptions.

  • Identify and address technical debt affecting the market’s systems and data-center environment.

Clinical and Operational Partnership

  • Build trusted relationships with hospital executives, clinical leaders, physicians, nursing teams and operational departments.

  • Ensure technology solutions support patient care, clinical workflows and business operations.

  • Gather and prioritize technology needs across departments and facilities.

  • Translate clinical and operational requirements into practical technology solutions.

  • Help teams understand the operational impact of proposed technology changes.

  • Maintain strong communication during implementations, disruptions and organizational change.

EHR and Enterprise Applications

  • Oversee the reliable operation and support of Electronic Health Record and related clinical systems.

  • Lead or support EHR upgrades, implementations and optimization initiatives.

  • Coordinate with enterprise application teams and facility stakeholders to address workflow and system issues.

  • Support application testing, training, implementation and adoption.

  • Ensure clinical applications meet operational, cybersecurity and regulatory requirements.

  • Identify opportunities to improve clinical efficiency and patient-care outcomes through technology.

Cybersecurity and Regulatory Compliance

  • Implement and enforce enterprise cybersecurity policies and technology standards.

  • Protect clinical, patient, operational and financial information.

  • Ensure compliance with applicable healthcare technology and privacy requirements, including HIPAA and HITECH.

  • Participate in technology audits, regulatory inspections and accreditation activities.

  • Support cybersecurity assessments, incident-response activities and risk-remediation initiatives.

  • Promote secure technology practices across clinical and administrative teams.

  • Partner with enterprise cybersecurity leadership to address vulnerabilities and emerging threats.

Project and Change Management

  • Lead and support enterprise technology initiatives across assigned facilities.

  • Manage projects involving EHR upgrades, cybersecurity, digital transformation, infrastructure and technical-debt reduction.

  • Establish clear project plans, responsibilities, timelines and success measures.

  • Coordinate internal teams, enterprise resources, facility stakeholders and external partners.

  • Champion structured change management and effective communication.

  • Ensure staff receive appropriate training and support before new technology is introduced.

  • Monitor adoption and address barriers following implementation.

Financial and Vendor Management

  • Collaborate with Finance and executive leadership to develop and manage technology priorities.

  • Support IT budgeting, forecasting and financial planning.

  • Ensure technology investments align with organizational and patient-care objectives.

  • Identify opportunities for cost reduction, operational efficiency and revenue improvement.

  • Manage external vendors and technology partners in accordance with enterprise procurement requirements.

  • Monitor vendor performance, service delivery, contractual obligations and escalations.

  • Evaluate proposed technology investments based on value, risk and operational need.

Team Leadership and Development

  • Lead, mentor and develop the market’s IT professionals.

  • Establish clear performance expectations and promote accountability.

  • Support workforce planning, succession management and employee engagement.

  • Identify professional-development and technical-training opportunities.

  • Build a collaborative team culture focused on service, continuous learning and operational excellence.

  • Ensure the team remains responsive to the needs of clinical and business stakeholders.

Performance Improvement and Innovation

  • Drive continuous improvement across IT operations and service delivery.

  • Use performance data, benchmarks and service metrics to identify improvement opportunities.

  • Promote practical innovation that advances patient care, operational efficiency and information security.

  • Evaluate emerging healthcare technologies and their potential value.

  • Develop measurable plans to improve system availability, response times, user satisfaction and operational performance.

  • Support data-informed decision-making across hospital and market leadership.

Required Qualifications

Candidates must possess one of the following:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business or a related discipline; or

  • At least seven years of directly relevant professional experience in place of a bachelor’s degree.

Additional requirements include:

  • At least five years of progressive IT management experience.

  • At least three years of experience within healthcare and a multi-site or enterprise environment.

  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate across clinical, operational and enterprise teams.

  • Strong leadership, communication and relationship-building capabilities.

  • Experience managing technology staff, priorities and service delivery.

  • Ability to work onsite in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.

  • Willingness and ability to undertake overnight travel, potentially up to 50%.

  • Current authorization to work in the United States without employer sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Direct experience leading hospital IT operations.

  • Experience supporting multiple hospitals or healthcare facilities.

  • Strong knowledge of Electronic Health Record systems and clinical applications.

  • Experience with healthcare infrastructure, cybersecurity and data protection.

  • Knowledge of HIPAA, HITECH and related healthcare regulatory requirements.

  • Experience participating in hospital audits, inspections or accreditation activities.

  • Technology project and change-management experience.

  • Experience with EHR upgrades, digital transformation or clinical technology implementations.

  • Experience managing IT budgets and technology investments.

  • Strong vendor and contract-management experience.

  • Experience developing and mentoring IT professionals.

  • Knowledge of healthcare IT best practices and emerging technology trends.

  • Experience using performance metrics and analytics to improve IT service delivery.

The Ideal Candidate

The strongest candidate will be able to demonstrate:

  • Successful leadership of IT operations within a hospital or healthcare system.

  • Experience supporting a complex, multi-site or enterprise technology environment.

  • Strong understanding of the connection between technology and patient care.

  • Direct involvement with EHR systems, cybersecurity and regulatory compliance.

  • The ability to communicate effectively with clinical teams, hospital executives and enterprise IT leaders.

  • Examples of improving system availability, service delivery or stakeholder satisfaction.

  • Successful delivery of complex healthcare technology projects.

  • Experience managing budgets, vendors and competing operational priorities.

  • A collaborative and service-focused leadership style.

  • The ability to remain calm, organized and decisive during major incidents or technology disruption.

Work Environment

This position is based onsite within an active hospital environment. The successful candidate will work in clinical and office settings and may encounter the standard environmental conditions associated with healthcare facilities.

Normal business hours are generally Monday through Friday, from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. However, availability outside standard hours may occasionally be required based on operational needs, system incidents or project activity.

Regular travel between facilities and occasional overnight travel by land or air should be expected.

Benefits

The organization offers a comprehensive benefits package that may include:

  • Medical insurance

  • Dental insurance

  • Vision insurance

  • Life insurance

  • Accident and critical-illness coverage

  • Hospital-indemnity insurance

  • Short- and long-term disability coverage

  • Paid family leave

  • Paid time off

  • Retirement plan with employer contribution or match

  • Tuition and professional-certification assistance

  • Student-loan assistance

  • Mental, physical and financial wellness programs

  • Virtual-care and mental-health resources

  • Professional-development and career-advancement opportunities

Interview Process

The anticipated selection process includes:

  1. An initial 10-minute screening call.

  2. A Microsoft Teams interview with divisional IT leadership.

  3. A Microsoft Teams interview with hospital leadership.

  4. An onsite meeting with senior executives, department directors and IT staff.

Equal Opportunity

The organization is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants without discrimination based on any status protected under applicable federal, state or local law.

 

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Senior Manager, Systems Engineering | Aerospace & Defense Leadership | Waco, TX

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Senior Manager, Systems Engineering

📍 Waco, Texas (Onsite)
🕒 9/80 Schedule – Every Other Friday Off
💰 $190,000 - $220,000 Base Salary
🚚 Relocation Assistance Available
✈️ Aerospace, Defense & Advanced Mission Systems
👥 Engineering Leadership Opportunity

Lead High-Impact Engineering Teams Supporting Advanced Aerospace & Defense Programs

An industry-leading aerospace and defense organization is seeking a Senior Manager, Systems Engineering to lead and develop multidisciplinary engineering teams supporting complex aircraft modification, systems integration, mission systems, and advanced technology programs.

This is an exceptional opportunity for an experienced engineering leader who combines strong technical depth with proven people leadership, strategic planning, and program execution capabilities.

You'll oversee teams responsible for the design, integration, and delivery of sophisticated systems supporting both military and commercial customers while playing a key role in shaping departmental strategy, workforce planning, technical excellence, and long-term business growth.

If you're passionate about leading engineers, solving complex technical challenges, influencing organizational strategy, and delivering mission-critical solutions, this role offers outstanding visibility, responsibility, and career progression.

Why This Opportunity Stands Out

This is not a traditional engineering management role.

You'll operate at the intersection of engineering leadership, program execution, customer engagement, workforce planning, and strategic business growth.

You'll help define how engineering teams support future programs, influence hiring and staffing strategies, drive technical excellence, and partner directly with senior leadership to ensure successful program execution.

Highlights include:

  • Lead multiple engineering teams supporting complex aerospace and defense programs

  • Direct influence on departmental strategy and workforce growth

  • High visibility with executive leadership and customers

  • Opportunity to shape future engineering capabilities and talent development

  • Significant involvement in proposal development and business growth initiatives

  • Exposure to both military and commercial aviation programs

  • Strong technical and leadership career progression opportunities

What You'll Be Doing

Engineering Leadership & Team Development

  • Lead, mentor, and develop a diverse team of Systems Engineers and technical professionals

  • Create a culture focused on technical excellence, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement

  • Establish training and professional development plans to support long-term organizational goals

  • Support employee growth, performance management, succession planning, and talent development initiatives

  • Foster strong collaboration across engineering, program management, operations, and customer teams

Strategic Workforce Planning

  • Forecast engineering resource requirements based on current and future program demand

  • Develop hiring strategies and workforce plans to support business growth

  • Lead recruiting efforts and participate in candidate selection processes

  • Ensure teams are appropriately staffed to meet program commitments and customer expectations

  • Support long-term capability development across the engineering organization

Program & Technical Leadership

  • Provide leadership and oversight across multiple engineering programs and integration efforts

  • Partner closely with Program Managers and Project Engineers to ensure successful execution

  • Review engineering schedules, budgets, risks, and resource allocations

  • Support engineering teams throughout the full program lifecycle

  • Ensure technical solutions align with customer requirements, budgets, and schedules

Systems Engineering Excellence

  • Lead and review systems engineering activities including:

    • Requirements analysis

    • System architecture development

    • Trade studies

    • System integration planning

    • Verification and validation activities

    • Technical baseline management

  • Ensure customer requirements are translated into clear, verifiable system-level requirements

  • Review engineering trade studies for technical accuracy, completeness, and feasibility

  • Support development of complex integrated system architectures

Customer & Stakeholder Engagement

  • Serve as a key technical leader during customer interactions

  • Build strong relationships with military, government, commercial, and internal stakeholders

  • Present technical information to executive leadership, customers, and engineering teams

  • Represent the organization during technical reviews, program meetings, and customer engagements

  • Facilitate collaboration between engineering, program management, and customers to ensure alignment and success

Business Growth & Proposal Support

  • Support new business capture activities and proposal development efforts

  • Participate in labor estimating, Basis of Estimate (BOE) creation, and technical proposal development

  • Contribute to growth strategies and future program planning

  • Support investment planning and technical roadmap development

Department Operations & Financial Management

  • Manage departmental budgets and overhead spending

  • Ensure engineering teams have the tools, resources, and infrastructure required to succeed

  • Monitor departmental performance against strategic goals and operating plans

  • Drive process improvements and operational efficiencies across the organization

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering, Physics, or a related technical discipline

  • Minimum 12 years of relevant engineering experience with a Bachelor's Degree

OR

  • Minimum 10 years of relevant engineering experience with an advanced degree

  • Previous engineering leadership or management experience

  • Strong understanding of Systems Engineering principles and methodologies

  • Experience leading multidisciplinary technical teams

  • Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills

Highly Preferred Experience

Systems Engineering

  • Requirements management

  • System architecture development

  • Trade study execution and evaluation

  • System integration

  • Verification & validation

  • Technical baseline management

  • Full engineering lifecycle experience

Leadership & Program Management

  • Functional management experience

  • IPT (Integrated Product Team) leadership

  • Workforce planning and hiring

  • Resource forecasting

  • Budget management

  • Engineering operations leadership

  • Strategic planning and execution

Business Development

  • Proposal development

  • Basis of Estimate (BOE) creation

  • Technical volume development

  • Customer engagement and presentations

Aerospace, Defense & Mission Systems

Experience supporting:

  • Aircraft modification programs

  • Avionics integration

  • Mission systems

  • Defense platforms

  • Government programs

  • Complex system integration efforts

Cybersecurity Experience

Experience supporting cybersecurity-focused engineering teams or cybersecurity programs is considered a strong plus.

Leadership Competencies

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

  • Strategic thinking and planning

  • Exceptional problem-solving abilities

  • Strong business acumen

  • Critical thinking and sound decision-making

  • Team leadership and coaching skills

  • Executive-level communication capabilities

  • Accountability and ownership mentality

  • Ability to influence across multiple functions and stakeholder groups

Security & Eligibility Requirements

Candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.

Preferred

  • Active Secret Clearance

Compensation & Benefits

💰 Base Salary: $190,000 - $220,000

Additional benefits include:

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

  • Retirement savings plans

  • Paid time off and company holidays

  • Professional development opportunities

  • Relocation assistance for qualified candidates

  • Interview travel reimbursement

  • Long-term career advancement opportunities

  • 9/80 work schedule with every other Friday off

Why Join?

This is an outstanding opportunity to lead talented engineering teams working on complex, high-visibility aerospace and defense programs that have a direct impact on mission success.

You'll help shape engineering strategy, influence future business growth, develop the next generation of engineering talent, and work alongside some of the industry's most respected technical professionals.

If you're an experienced engineering leader looking for a role that combines technical depth, people leadership, business impact, and long-term career growth, we'd love to hear from you.

 

Business Segment Director – Space Mission Systems | TS/SCI Poly | Scottsdale, AZ

Business Segment Director – Space Mission Systems

📍 Location: Scottsdale, Arizona / Remote Flexibility Available
🏢 Work Model: Remote with Travel Requirements
💼 Employment Type: Full-Time
🔐 Security Clearance Required: Active TS/SCI Clearance Required at Time of Hire
🔒 CI Polygraph Preferred (Must be eligible and willing to obtain post-hire if not currently held)

💰 Compensation & Benefits

  • Base Salary: $200,000 – $290,000
    (Depending on experience and qualifications)

  • Full comprehensive benefits package

  • Relocation assistance available for ideal candidates

  • Interview travel reimbursement provided

📍 Location & Travel Expectations

  • The role can ultimately be performed remotely with travel as needed

  • However, the first 3 months will require significant onsite presence in Scottsdale to support onboarding, stakeholder integration, and operational ramp-up

  • Following this initial period, candidates may be based remotely but must be willing to travel when required for program, customer, and leadership engagements

🚀 The Opportunity

A leading defense and aerospace organization is seeking a Business Segment Director to lead a portfolio of advanced national security and space mission programs supporting critical missions globally.

The portfolio includes technologies and programs related to:

  • Data networking & secure data transport

  • Cybersecurity & high-assurance cryptography

  • Mission-critical space systems

  • Satellites & embedded mission technologies

  • Secure communications & networking platforms

This executive leadership role oversees high-value development and production programs and is responsible for strategic growth, operational execution, customer engagement, financial performance, and organizational leadership across a highly complex classified portfolio.

The ideal candidate is a proven defense industry executive with deep expertise across space systems, secure technologies, avionics, cybersecurity, cryptographic solutions, or embedded mission systems, combined with strong operational leadership and business development capabilities.

🔧 Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Growth

  • Lead and expand a portfolio of mission-critical defense and space programs

  • Develop and execute short- and long-term business growth strategies

  • Identify and capture adjacent and new business opportunities

  • Drive business development and customer engagement initiatives

  • Support strategic portfolio growth within national security and classified environments

Program & Operational Leadership

  • Oversee execution of complex development and production programs

  • Manage financial, operational, schedule, and customer satisfaction objectives

  • Ensure successful delivery across highly classified and technically complex environments

  • Balance mission urgency, execution discipline, and customer expectations

  • Lead operational performance across multiple programs and business initiatives

Customer & Stakeholder Engagement

  • Serve as senior interface to government and defense customers

  • Build trusted relationships across:

    • Space systems organizations

    • Cryptographic and cybersecurity communities

    • Networking and avionics sectors

    • Certification and mission authorities

  • Communicate effectively with executive, operational, and technical stakeholders

  • Represent the business segment with senior internal and external leadership

Organizational & Team Leadership

  • Lead and mentor high-performing engineering and program leadership teams

  • Drive accountability, collaboration, and organizational alignment

  • Support transformation and change management initiatives

  • Foster an inclusive, innovative, and mission-focused culture

  • Build and sustain high-performing cross-functional teams

Technical & Mission Leadership

  • Support programs involving:

    • Satellites and space mission systems

    • Secure networking solutions

    • High-assurance cryptographic systems

    • Embedded mission technologies

    • Secure communications platforms

  • Collaborate across engineering, operations, and customer teams to deliver mission success

  • Support Agile development environments and innovation initiatives

  • Identify opportunities for AI-enabled operational improvements and efficiencies

✅ Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree required

  • 15+ years of leadership experience within defense contracting or related national security environments

  • Proven experience managing:

    • Complex development programs

    • Production programs

    • Large portfolios or business segments

  • Strong expertise in one or more of the following areas:

    • Space systems

    • Satellites

    • Cryptography

    • Cybersecurity

    • Secure networking

    • National security systems

  • Active TS/SCI clearance required at time of hire

  • Ability and willingness to obtain CI Polygraph clearance

  • U.S. Citizenship required

⭐ Preferred Background

  • Embedded systems or avionics experience

  • Experience supporting compartmented programs

  • Agile development environment experience

  • Existing relationships across aerospace and defense communities

  • Experience operating within large matrix organizations

  • Strong financial and operational leadership capability

  • Experience leading organizational transformation initiatives

🛠️ Core Skills

✔ Strategic Planning
✔ Business Development
✔ Program Execution
✔ Space Systems Leadership
✔ Cryptographic Solutions
✔ Cybersecurity
✔ Financial Management
✔ Customer Relationship Management
✔ Change Management
✔ Team Leadership
✔ Defense Contracting
✔ Agile Development
✔ Operational Leadership
✔ National Security Programs

🎯 Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is an executive-level aerospace or defense leader who:

  • Brings deep expertise across mission-critical national security programs

  • Understands complex space mission systems and secure technologies

  • Has successfully led large organizations through growth and transformation

  • Combines strong operational execution with strategic business leadership

  • Is highly customer-facing and trusted within classified defense environments

  • Thrives in fast-moving, high-accountability mission environments

  • Demonstrates strong leadership presence, communication, and stakeholder management capability

🌟 Why This Role Stands Out

  • Lead highly strategic national security and space mission programs

  • Influence cutting-edge technologies in cybersecurity, cryptography, and secure space systems

  • Significant executive visibility and organizational influence

  • Opportunity to shape the future of secure space mission capabilities

  • Join a highly respected defense and aerospace organization supporting critical global missions

  • Strong long-term growth and leadership opportunity

📋 Additional Details

  • Travel required based on program and customer needs

  • Director-level executive leadership position

  • Relocation assistance available for exceptional candidates

  • Candidates must possess an active TS/SCI clearance and be eligible to obtain a CI Polygraph

  • Remote flexibility available following initial onboarding period

Recruiter Summary

This is a highly visible executive leadership opportunity within a premier aerospace and defense environment supporting advanced national security and space mission programs. The position offers the opportunity to lead complex classified portfolios involving secure communications, cybersecurity, cryptography, satellites, and mission-critical technologies while influencing long-term strategic growth and operational direction across the organization.

Ideal candidates will bring a blend of strategic leadership, operational excellence, technical credibility, customer engagement experience, and deep understanding of classified defense environments.

 

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