Reporting to the Associate Director of Operations, the Technical Lead plays a central role in advancing DFCI's clinical informatics priorities by owning the execution of a portfolio of high-impact programs and projects.
This role provides technical leadership and strong program management across multiple concurrent initiatives—setting direction, building roadmaps, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring reliable delivery against institutional goals and timelines. The Technical Lead brings strategic thinking and a continuous-improvement mindset, translating complex needs into measurable outcomes while communicating effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
The Technical Lead partners closely with engineering, analytics, clinical, operational, and vendor teams to evaluate technical options, identify and mitigate risk, and drive sound architecture and implementation decisions.
The role oversees end-to-end delivery of health IT initiatives such as EHR implementations, interoperability/API integrations, and custom software application delivery.
Located in Boston and the surrounding communities, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is a leader in life changing breakthroughs in cancer research and patient care. We are united in our mission of conquering cancer, HIV/AIDS, and related diseases. We strive to create an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment where we provide compassionate and comprehensive care to patients of all backgrounds, and design programs to promote public health particularly among high-risk and underserved populations. We conduct groundbreaking research that advances treatment, we educate tomorrow's physician/researchers, and we work with amazing partners, including other Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Project and Program Management: Lead a portfolio of clinical informatics programs and projects from intake through delivery, translating institutional priorities into roadmaps, project plans, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Drive cross-functional execution with matrixed teams and diverse stakeholders (clinical, operational, IT, analytics), ensuring alignment, accountability, and timely delivery within scope and budget.
- Technical Expertise: Provide technical leadership for health IT and interoperability efforts, partnering with engineering to assess feasibility, manage technical risk, and guide architecture/design decisions (e.g., Epic, FHIR, HL7, HIE integrations).
- Communication: Own program governance and communications, including stakeholder engagement, meeting cadence, dependency management, and executive-ready status reporting.
- Strategic Thinking: Proactively identify, document, and escalate risks, issues, and tradeoffs; make sound day-to-day decisions while surfacing strategic decisions to senior leadership as needed.
- Vendor Selection: Lead vendor evaluation and selection activities and manage vendor performance across multiple concurrent engagements, contracts, deliverables, and timelines.
- Continuous Learning: Enable continuous improvement by standardizing delivery practices, improving workflows/quality outcomes, and identifying opportunities to enhance systems, processes, and user experience.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Deep clinical informatics and technical expertise: Strong foundation in clinical informatics and software best practices, including EHR/clinical data, system integration, application support, networking, and information security; comfortable operating in regulated clinical environments.
- Program and project delivery excellence: Demonstrated ability to lead complex, multithreaded initiatives using sound project management methodologies, tools, and disciplined execution (planning, scheduling, prioritization, and attention to detail).
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder leadership: Skilled at translating between technical and clinical audiences, engaging stakeholders effectively, aligning diverse perspectives, and driving change through.
- Ownership, judgment, and problem solving: High degree of accountability for outcomes; strong analytical thinking, decision-making, and ability to adapt in fast-paced environments while inspiring teams toward shared goals.
- Mission-driven growth mindset: Passion for improving the lives of patients and families, coupled with curiosity and commitment to continuous learning and professional development.
Minimum Job Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in STEM field; Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or a related technical field required.
- Master's degree in Health Informatics or related technical field preferred.
- 5 years of relevant technical experience with progressively increasing responsibility required.
License/ Certification/Registration Required:
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Patient Contact:
Special Working Conditions:
At Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, we work every day to create an innovative, caring, and inclusive environment where every patient, family, and staff member feels they belong. As relentless as we are in our mission to reduce the burden of cancer for all, we are committed to having faculty and staff who offer multifaceted experiences. Cancer knows no boundaries and when it comes to hiring the most dedicated and compassionate professionals, neither do we. If working in this kind of organization inspires you, we encourage you to apply.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is an equal opportunity employer and affirms the right of every qualified applicant to receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, age, ancestry, military service, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.
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Pay Transparency Statement
The hiring range is based on market pay structures, with individual salaries determined by factors such as business needs, market conditions, internal equity, and based on the candidate’s relevant experience, skills and qualifications.
For union positions, the pay range is determined by the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).
$129,400.00 - $145,100.00
