VP of Information Technology

Do you want to change lives? Are you interested in helping international healthcare professionals achieve their American Dream? If so, join us at Avant!

Avant Healthcare Professionals is the premier recruiting and staffing specialist for internationally educated healthcare professionals and we have been named to the Inc. 5000 List of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies for 7+ years. Our comprehensive program guides qualified registered nurses, physical and occupational therapists through each stage of the licensure and immigration process and makes it simple! Avant Healthcare Professionals has grown 40 percent annually since its inception in 2003, and with healthcare and social assistance employment projected to grow by 3.4 million, healthcare staffing is a thriving industry. While experiencing a period of tremendous growth, Avant offers tremendous opportunities for eager professionals looking for an opportunity to build their career.

What you will do:

• Partner with executive leadership to advance the organizational mission and strategy through the utilization of technology
• Maintain pace with technological progress, industry and economic change, and organizational needs
• Collaborate with the executive team to provide budgetary and operational planning for technology investments
• Establish trusting relationships with the senior leadership team and key stakeholders
• Build partnerships with vendors and create value-producing agreements
• Provide technical leadership to IT staff; act as a servant leader by training, encouraging, coaching, and developing team members
• Build and maintain a motivated, high performance, metrics-driven team that embraces the principles of passion for service excellence, teamwork, adaptability, integrity, continuous improvement, and a sense of urgency
• Regularly report to executive leadership on technology opportunities and challenges
• Maintain and enforce network, application and data security policies, procedures and standards that protect the company from internal and external risks
• Provide leadership over the operations management of IT services, including equipment inventory and provisioning, maintaining maximum network uptime, and service desk effectiveness
• Ensure that the company improves and follows project management and scrum-agile framework best practices
• Oversee PMO services and the enterprise technology project portfolio, ensuring that projects are ranked, approved, and implemented based on highest value to the company
• Facilitate the process to evaluate project proposals for architectural fit and strategic alignment
• Ensure that best software engineering practices and standards are documented and followed
• Measure and continuously improve the throughput and effectiveness of the organization’s software delivery capability
• Provide regular, timely, and accurate reporting to executive leadership on project status, system and network uptime, service desk performance, IT resource management, and budget variances
• Meet regularly with direct reports to discuss their progress and to complete performance reviews

What you will need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, or related field required, or equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered
• Master’s degree preferred
• Minimum of 15 years of related experience in architecting, building, integrating, securing, and deploying enterprise systems required
• Minimum of 12 years of progressive leadership experience managing information technology teams required
• Experience implementing and supporting enterprise systems such as operational workflow platforms, Finance and Accounting, Human Capital Management, and payroll is required
• Knowledge of ITIL and IT service management ticketing systems is required
• Salesforce Sales, Service, and/or Experience cloud implementation and support experience is highly preferred
• Deep expertise with scrum-agile development framework
• Strong understanding of technology strategic planning and project portfolio management
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a strong attention to detail
• Ability to lead and thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
• Strong knowledge of organizational change management (OCM) and managing change
• Strong vendor relations and negotiation skills
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office 365 products and virtual meeting tools (MS Teams, Zoom)

What Avant offers:

• Medical/Dental/Vision
• 15 Days PTO + 9 Paid Holidays + Birthday PTO
• Separate Charitable PTO days
• 401K With Company Match
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Pet Insurance
• Yoga Classes
• Fitness Center on Site
• Family Planning Support
• Hybrid schedule after completion of the training period

Please visit our corporate career site for further details on the job description.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $1.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Experience level:

• 11+ years

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Maitland, FL: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person