VP of IT Infrastructure and Operations (Finance)

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Make Lives Better Including Your Own. If you want to work in an environment where you can become your best possible self, join us! You'll earn more than a paycheck; you can find opportunities to grow your career through professional development, as well as ongoing programs catered to your overall health and wellness. Full suite of health insurance, life insurance and retirement plans are available and vary by employment status.

Part and Full Time Benefits Eligibility

• Medical, Dental, Vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Associate assistance program
• Employee discounts
• Referral program
• Early access to earned wages for hourly associates (outside of CA)
• Optional voluntary benefits including ID theft protection and pet insurance

Full Time Only Benefits Eligibility

• Paid Time Off
• Paid holidays
• Company provided life insurance
• Adoption benefit
• Disability (short and long term)
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Health Savings Account
• Optional life and dependent life insurance
• Optional voluntary benefits including accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity Insurance, and legal plan
• Tuition reimbursement

Base pay in range will be determined by applicant's skills and experience. Full-time associates in role are also eligible for an annual bonus incentive. Temporary associates are not benefits eligible but may participate in the company's 401(k) program.

Veterans, transitioning active duty military personnel, and military spouses are encouraged to apply. To support our associates in their journey to become a U.S. citizen, Brookdale offers to advance fees for naturalization (Form N-400) application costs, up to $725, less applicable taxes and withholding, for qualified associates who have been with us for at least a year.

The application window is anticipated to close within 30 days of the date of the posting.Education and Experience
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or other related field strongly desired.
Minimum fifteen years related experience required; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Certifications, Licenses, and other Special Requirements
Hands on experience with IT networking, security, servers and storage management required.

Management/Decision Making
Uses independent judgment to establish procedures and overall strategic direction that may affect a community, multiple communities, industry sectors and/or functional disciplines. Solves the most complex problems that require understanding and evaluation of impacts on the organization.

Knowledge and Skills
Possesses extensive knowledge of a professional discipline and maintains extensive theoretical business and industry knowledge. Provides overall leadership and direction to the business at the regional or divisional level.

Physical Demands and Working Conditions

• Standing
• Walking
• Sitting
• Use hands and fingers to handle or feel
• Reach with hands and arms
• Stoop, kneel, crouch crawl
• Talk or hear
• Ability to lift: up to 25 pounds
• Vision
• Requires interaction with co-workers, residents or vendors

Brookdale is an equal opportunity employer and a drug-free workplace.Responsible for the management and oversight of Brookdale's overall technology infrastructure and operations environment. This scope includes Brookdale's data centers (on-premise, hosted, and public cloud), data network, telecommunications network, servers and system administration, storage, transactional databases, identity and access management, and robotic process automation. In addition to ensuring the delivery of planned enhancements and upgrades, this role is accountable for infrastructure uptime, accuracy, reliability, and security. This role closely partners with Information Security, Application Development, Enterprise Architecture, and End User Services teams in the fulfilment of responsibilities.

Plans, designs, and builds the underlying infrastructure supporting corporate systems as well as those supporting our communities and home health division, for custom-built as well as commercially provided platforms

Maintains operations, including uptime, reliability, performance, and appropriate security including proper patch levels, of the same infrastructure and components.

Accountable for managing all teams-whether internal associates, contractors, or vendors/partners-responsible for the delivery or operations of the infrastructure supporting Brookdale.

Manages the budget required for infrastructure capital purchases, on-going infrastructure repair and maintenance expenses, team labor costs, and associated software costs (whether on-premises or software-as-a-service).

Communicates risks and issues associated with project delivery and/or on-going operations to IT management or business executives for awareness, mitigation, and re-baselining, as appropriate.

Works with Enterprise Architecture team to prepare long- and short-range plans for technology components in the infrastructure stack.

Creates, promotes, and enforces IT infrastruture delivery and operations best practices, policies, and procedues. Drives continuous improvement across all teams.

Prepares cost estimates for current and proposed projects, reflecting the infrastructure and staff (internal or external) requirements.

Evaluates vendor proposals for purchases of hardware, software, and professional services to ensure adherence to technical specifications.

Responsible for compliance with SOX, HIPAA, PCI and other regulations as required.

Partner effectively with other IT groups (e.g., Application Development, Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, End User Services) and business functions (e.g., Operations, Home Health, Procurement) to deliver projects and ensure operational stability.

Delivery executive-level presentations up to and including Senior Leadership Team, Executive Leadership Team, and Board of Directors.

This job description represents an overview of the responsibilities for the above referenced position. It is not intended to represent a comprehensive list of responsibilities. An associate should perform all duties as assigned by his/ her supervisor.