[Hiring] AVP, Infrastructure @Molina Healthcare

Role Description

Provides strategy and leadership to team responsible for enterprise infrastructure operations, technology platforms, and engineering across all lines of business. Responsible for shaping the long‑term vision and roadmap for infrastructure capabilities, ensuring platforms are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with organizational goals. Partners with senior information technology (IT) and business leaders to define technology strategy, prioritize investments, and guide the evolution of the enterprise technology portfolio toward a more efficient, flexible, and modern future state. Oversees IT service performance, operational excellence, and engineering execution while fostering strong stakeholder relationships and driving continuous improvement across the organization.

• Supports strategy development, vision and direction for the enterprise information technology (IT) infrastructure function.
• Demonstrates accountability for performance and financial results, and keeps executive leadership apprised.
• Oversees and innovates infrastructure as a service covering all aspects of the Molina network, server and storage capabilities.
• Ensures that the enterprise has the capability to support new technologies and maintain high levels of network performance and reliability.
• Develops strategies to improve customer experience, decrease costs, and shorten implementation times.
• Creates sustainable practices for managing and delivering network, server, and storage designs for individual projects.
• Ensures that all systems are tuned to maintain high availability and capacity to meet demand.
• Analyzes department needs and establishes priorities for network design and implementation.
• Serves as escalation point for all network, server and storage-related incidents.
• Ensures continuous integrity, availability, and performance of the Molina network, server and storage infrastructure.
• Oversees development of procedures and processes for enterprise network operations.
• Establishes departmental goals, objectives, and operating procedures.
• Hires, trains, mentors, and develops a high-performing team.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of progressive information technology (IT) network experience with a focus on infrastructure services.
• At least 5 years of management/leadership experience.
• Bachelor's degree in IT, computer science, statistics, business, health care, engineering, etc.
• Experience delivering large-scale solutions across multiple business units and geographies.
• Enterprise architecture experience in complex technology ecosystems.
• Advanced information systems (IS) and programs expertise.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure planning, sizing, virtualization, containerization, and cloud.
• Fluent in infrastructure support technologies.
• Specific domain expertise with either Medicaid, Medicare, and/or Marketplace.
• Experience with global delivery models and working with third-party consultancies.
• Recognized technology and architecture leader with a proven track record of delivering software engineering initiatives at scale.
• Understanding of web service standards and practices.
• Experience with data center network buildout.
• Experience working in global delivery models/hybrid staffing structures.
• Ability to cultivate a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion.
• Knowledge of health care payer processes/industry/trends.
• Ability to execute data queries and analysis to support fact-based decision-making.
• Strong data-analysis and critical-thinking skills.
• Strategic planning and process design/improvement experience.
• Effective organizational and time-management skills.
• Ability and initiative to learn and research new concepts, ideas, and technologies quickly.
• Strong project management experience.
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally in a highly matrixed organization.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Microsoft stack (including advanced Excel), and SQL proficiency.

Requirements

• Executive-level certifications, such as ITIL Expert/Master, PMP, Six Sigma Black Belt, or equivalent.
• Deep understanding of health care industry regulations, compliance requirements, and Medicaid/MCO operational frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale infrastructure modernization, cloud transformation, or enterprise technology programs.
• Proven ability to operate effectively in a complex, highly matrixed organization.
• Experience developing and executing long-term IT infrastructure strategies.
• Strong background in vendor management, contract negotiation, and oversight of large enterprise technology service providers.
• Experience presenting to executive leadership, boards, or governance committees.
• Proven experience developing and delivering Power BI reporting solutions.
• Hands-on experience leveraging AI technologies within large-scale infrastructure environments.
• Strong background in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and multi-cloud architecture design.
• Demonstrated leadership experience managing and mentoring teams of Engineers and Architects.
• Lean Six Sigma and ITIL certifications are preferred.

Benefits

• Molina Healthcare offers a competitive benefits and compensation package.
• Molina Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) M/F/D/V.