Senior Director HRIS

About this role

Overview

At SCA Health, we believe health care is about people – the patients we serve, the physicians we support and the teammates who push us forward. Behind every successful facility, procedure or innovation is a team of 15,000+ professionals working together, learning from each other and living out the mission, vision and values that define our organization.
As part of Optum, SCA Health is redefining specialty care by developing more accessible, patient-centered practice solutions for a network of more than 370 ambulatory surgical centers, over 400 specialty physician practice clinics and numerous labs and surgical hospitals. Our work spans a broad spectrum of services, all designed to support physicians, health systems and employers in delivering efficient, value-based care to patients without compromising quality or autonomy.
What sets SCA Health apart isn’t just what we do, it’s how we do it. Each decision we make is rooted in seven core values:

• Clinical quality

• Integrity

• Service excellence

• Teamwork

• Accountability

• Continuous improvement

• Inclusion

Our values aren’t empty words – they inform our attitudes, actions and culture. At SCA Health, your work directly impacts patients, physicians and communities. Here, you’ll find opportunities to build your career alongside a team that values your expertise, invests in your success, and shares a common mission to care for patients, serve physicians and improve health care in America.
At SCA Health, we offer a comprehensive benefits package to support your health, well-being, and financial future. Our offerings include medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401k plan with company match, paid time off, life and disability insurance, and more. Please visit, to learn more about our benefits.
Your ideas should inspire change. If you join our team, they will.

Responsibilities

The Senior Director of HRIS provides enterprise functional leadership for the HRIS organization and is accountable for performance, results, and service outcomes through multiple layers of managers, senior professional staff, vendor partners, and cross-functional delivery teams. This role owns the strategy, operating model, governance, roadmap, and execution discipline for a major HR functional area that supports multiple HR disciplines, business stakeholder groups, and markets/sites. The Senior Director translates business and HR strategy into scalable technology priorities, stabilizes and optimizes the current HR technology ecosystem, strengthens data integrity and controls, and builds the capabilities required to support future transformation and platform modernization. This leader directs others to resolve highly complex, cross-functional business problems; aligns HR, IT, People Analytics, HR Operations, HRBPs, COEs, Finance, Operations, and vendor partners around shared priorities; and drives programs that improve platform reliability, reduce manual work, strengthen decision-making, and improve teammate and leader experience across the organization.
Responsibilities:
Core Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, direction, and accountability for the HRIS function through multiple layers of managers, senior professional staff, offshore resources, and vendor partners, ensuring clear ownership, disciplined execution, measurable outcomes, and mature service delivery across HR platforms and business functions.

• Develop, translate, and execute the HR Technology strategy and multi-year roadmap across HR functional areas, aligning stabilization, AI enablement, platform optimization, operating model maturity, governance, data integrity, continuous improvement, and future transformation readiness with business priorities.

• Play a critical role in HR Transformation by leading HR through technology-enabled optimization and its AI journey, developing an HR AI strategy, prioritized roadmap, and governance aligned with enterprise standards to identify, evaluate, and safely deploy high-value use cases and solutions across the organization in partnership with HR leaders, IT, Legal, Compliance, and Information Security.

• Direct leaders and cross-functional partners to resolve highly complex or unusual business problems that affect multiple HR functions, platforms, stakeholder groups, markets/sites, and operational disciplines.

• Drive programs that impact broad internal customer and teammate experiences by improving system reliability, configuration discipline, testing, release management, integration controls, documentation, service performance, and overall platform effectiveness.

• Establish functional governance, intake, prioritization, decision rights, KPIs, dashboards, portfolio routines, and operating cadences that provide visibility into demand, backlog health, cycle time, SLA performance, release readiness, resource capacity, risks, and business outcomes.

• Own vendor strategy, performance management, delivery accountability, contract standards, renewals, negotiations, SOWs, augmented staffing, and financial stewardship for HR Technology partnerships.

• Ensure HR technology requirements, configuration, integrations, access, reporting, testing, deployment, controls, audit readiness, security, data governance, and stabilization activities are sustainable across mergers, acquisitions, compliance needs, and enterprise change.

HR Technology Stabilization, Transformation & Capability Building

• Lead the assessment and redesign of the HRIS organization, including structure, roles, processes, decision rights, leadership layers, partner interfaces, and service expectations, to build a scalable operating model across HRIS, IT, People Analytics, and vendor partners.

• Translate the future-state vision into short-, medium-, and long-term execution plans with defined objectives, milestones, owners, dependencies, capacity needs, risks, and measurable business outcomes.

• Build a product-oriented, service-minded HRIS function with clear platform ownership,…