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Senior Director, Technology Business Partner

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 13 Oct 2025

About the role

This role leads the strategic alignment of technology initiatives with business objectives, ensuring seamless integration and effective delivery of IT services. This role involves close collaboration with business units, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, InfoSec, and Operations to meet both business and security requirements. Additionally, this role works with customers and managed service vendors to ensure technology solutions are aligned with business needs and operational excellence.

  • Oversee IT projects to ensure they meet business requirements, manage resources, budgets, and risks, and ensure timely project delivery.
  • Act as the main link between IT and business units to understand their needs and create IT strategies that support business goals.
  • Manage daily operations of key technology capabilities, maintain system reliability and performance, and optimize resource allocation.
  • Lead and mentor the IT team, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment, and manage recruitment and performance.
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with business stakeholders, ensuring effective communication and collaboration.
  • Essential Functions

    • Oversee IT projects to ensure they meet business requirements, manage resources, budgets, and risks, and ensure timely project delivery.
    • Act as the main link between IT and business units to understand their needs and create IT strategies that support business goals.
    • Manage daily operations of key technology capabilities, maintain system reliability and performance, and optimize resource allocation.
    • Lead and mentor the IT team, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment, and manage recruitment and performance.
    • Build and maintain strong relationships with business stakeholders, ensuring effective communication and collaboration.

    Qualifications
    Education

    • Required Bachelor's Degree in computer science, business administration, or a related IT or management discipline, or equivalent work experience.

    Experience

    • 12+ Years experience in IT leadership roles, with significant experience in business partnering or similar roles Required
    • Experience with budget management and resource allocation.
    • Proven experience with effective vendor management.
    • 10+ plus years of supervisory or management experience in an information technology department.
    • Minimum five years of senior management experience with demonstrated knowledge of strategic planning and experience developing and implementing strategies for achieving business objectives and organizing and managing multiple priorities


    Knowledge Skills and Abilities

    • Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
      Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
    • Proven track record of successfully aligning IT initiatives with business strategies.
    • Ability to build strong relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels.
    • Exceptional portfolio and project management skills for the effective deployment of resources and achievement of multiple projects in a cross-functional environment.
      Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to negotiate, persuade, and make effective presentations to varying audiences internal and external to the organization.
    • Proven ability to successfully lead a team in all phases of developing products for the healthcare software application and services marketplace, including product management, product development, marketing, sales, and implementation.

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    The posted salary range is the lowest to highest salary we, in good faith, believe we would pay for this role at the time of this postingWe may ultimately pay more or less than the hiring range and this hiring range may also be modified in the future. A candidate’s position within the hiring range may be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, relevant experience, skills, seniority, performance, shift, travel requirements, and business or organizational needs. This job is also eligible for annual bonus incentive pay. 

    We offer a comprehensive package of benefits

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    Company

    Blue Cross Blue Shield Association

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