Director of Emerging People Tech & Engineering

Position: Director People & Culture Digital Capabilities & Insights

Location: Remote with travel within approved US states

Travel: Travel within the Advocate Health footprint as needed

ABOUT ADVOCATE HEALTH CARE:

In December of 2022, Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health came together to create Advocate Health. Together as one integrated health care system, Advocate Health can now do more, be better and go faster to deliver the best health outcomes, make care more accessible and affordable to all, and help more people live well.

• 3rd Largest Nonprofit Health Care Organization in the United States
• 68 Hospitals Across 6 States
• 1K Sites of Care
• 150K Team Members~ 40K Nurses~21K Physicians
• 6M Patients
• $5B in Community Benefit

We’re compelled by what’s possible. Advocate Health is redefining how, when and where care is delivered to help people live well. We’re providing equitable care for all in our communities and using our combined strength and expertise to deliver better outcomes at a lower cost.

HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE:

Step into a pivotal leadership role where strategy meets innovation. You’ll lead a dynamic team of Analysts and Data Engineers at the forefront of innovation, delivering transformative solutions that elevate enterprise outcomes. By empowering your team through strategic delegation and development, you’ll cultivate a culture of excellence and customer obsession. You’ll recommend and implement cutting-edge technologies that align with our digital roadmap, driving impact across the People tech ecosystem. As a collaborative partner across IT, analytics, business stakeholders, and Operations & Transformation, you’ll foster cohesion and unlock the full value of our digital capabilities. Your consultative approach will ensure that emerging technologies and engineering capabilities converge seamlessly into a unified architecture—creating scalable, future-ready solutions that power our people strategy and enterprise success.

Accountabilities:

• Strategic Thinking: Shapes and recommends digital roadmap initiatives that elevate advanced analytics and insight capabilities, ensuring alignment with enterprise-wide and People & Culture strategic priorities.
• Agile Product and Engineering Leadership: Ability to lead team of Analysts and Engineers, fostering adaptive and consultative approaches that respond dynamically to evolving technical requirements and business needs.
• Strategic Partner: Builds strong, collaborative relationships with stakeholders across all levels, to consistently collaborate, consult, and partner business functions alignment, achieving best-in-class outcomes.
• Human-Centered Innovation & Prioritization: Translates user needs into actionable priorities, rapidly driving execution to maximize value, impact, and experience across digital ecosystems.
• Effective Team Management: Builds the team with the right resource allocation to tell the story and focus on product delivery
• Promoting growth program at all levels to support effective succession planning.
• Develops human-centered solutions and recommendations to drive decisions, leveraging data insights to drive how solutions are delivered.
• Leads a team to consistently deliver and drive results that achieve and promote greater Enterprise outcomes.
• Results are achieved through effective allocation and delegation to cultivate the teams' ability to grow, develop, and produce best-in-class products and solutions, configuration and support solutions, and reporting and analytics solutions, with a customer obsession mindset.
• Recommending best-in-class innovative solutions to align with roadmap outcomes.
• Acts as a collaborative and unifying partner within digital insights and capabilities teams, IT, technical and analytics teams, business stakeholders, and internal Operations & Transformation (OT) to foster togetherness, optimize solution value, and drive continuous process improvement.
• Provides end to end support, collaboration across dashboards and portfolio ownership based on area of expertise
• Consistently inspires innovative out-of-the box process thinking.
• Navigates change effectively to achieve successful adoption for team
• Proven results in driving engagement and retention at team level
• Promoting growth program at all levels to support effective succession planning.
• Develops human-centered solutions and recommendations to drive decisions, leveraging data insights to drive how solutions are delivered.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

Education: Bachelor’s degree required in applicable area

Certification/License:

Required Functional Experience: Typically requires 7 years in area of expertise

Required Management Experience: Requires 3 years of management level experience in people leadership

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Develop strategies, technology, and planning to translate complex data into actionable insights and compelling narratives that optimize Enterprise, P&C, and OT results.
• Recommends digital roadmap items and roadmap placement to optimize digital and advanced insight capabilities in alignment with Enterprise and People & Culture Strategy
• Positively motivate and inspire team toward individual and team goals that are aligned with OT and P&C strategy ,and drive engagement to retain top talent.
• Ability to lead team of Product Owner’s consultative and technical approaches to maintain work and flex as required, meeting technical demands and requirements
• Build and foster trust with stakeholders and communicate, interact, and influence effectively based on the customer audience.
• Builds strong, collaborative relationships with stakeholders across all levels, to consistently collaborate, consult, and partner business functions alignment, achieving best-in-class outcomes.
• Actively experiencing learning and open to AI and transformation, with the willingness and ability to champion and actively educate self on cutting-edge technology and themes.
• Technical and analytics skills to make effective business decisions aligned to roadmap strategies.
• Ability to consult and translate user needs to prioritize and expeditiously drive results to achieve optimum value and impact.
• Effective Team Management: Builds the team with the right resource allocation to tell the story and focus on product delivery

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions

DISCLAIMER: All responsibilities and requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only responsibilities to be performed by an employee occupying this job or position. Employees must follow any other job-related instructions and perform any other job-related duties requested by their leaders.

At Advocate Health Care

We pride ourselves on taking care of our people. And not just our patients—we mean you, too. We help each other live well. When you work at Advocate Health you get the chance to work with a dedicated team that’s as passionate about the work as you are. Here, you’ll find limitless opportunities for ongoing learning, career advancement, competitive compensation and a stable work environment. But more than that, you can change lives—including your own.

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 within the position’s 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

Compensation: $73.90 – $118.25