DIRECTOR - TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE & OPERATIONS - HYBRID

WHO WE ARE

GreenShieldis a proudly Canadian, national non-profit health care and insuranceorganization, driven by our mission of Better Health for All.
We believe health care is aright, not a privilege, and we are committed to improving health outcomes,advancing health equity, and building a future where every Canadian can reachtheir full health and well-being potential.

Throughour unique integrated payer-provider (“payvider”) model,

we offer
insurance, administer benefits, and pay claims as a ‘payer’ while offeringhealth care services such as mental health, pharmacy, telemedicine, and chronicdisease management as a ‘provider’. As a non-profit social enterprise without shareholders, we reinvest our excessearnings to directly support underserved communities. Through GreenShieldCares, we positively impacted the health and well-being of over one millionCanadians between 2020 and 2025. What’s driving us now is the commitment to measurably impact an additionalthree million Canadians by 2030 – across mental health, essential medicines,and chronic disease management – through scalable initiatives that delivermeaningful change in pursuit of our mission of Better Health for All.

AtGreenShield, our culture is where purpose meets passion and performance. Our teams work as one to delivermeaningful, measurable impact for the people and communities we serve.

THEROLE IN A NUTSHELL

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Salary:
Range Exempt

GreenShield is continuing the modernization of its technology ecosystem while operating always-on services for members, providers, plan sponsors and employees. As GreenShield expands cloud adoption, enables AI-driven technologies and advances enterprise transformation through infrastructure, contact centre and service transformation initiatives, resilient and scalable technology platforms are essential to business performance and customer experience.
The Director, Infrastructure & Operations is accountable for the foundational platforms that support GreenShield's business and customer-facing services. The role provides strategic leadership for infrastructure engineering, cloud platforms, enterprise networking, database services, service operations, reliability, disaster recovery and observability.
This is a strategic, leader-of-leaders position. The Director sets and executes a multi-year roadmap, leads platform consolidation and modernization, governs a complex vendor ecosystem, and is accountable for enterprise availability and operational resilience within a regulated Canadian healthcare and insurance environment.

Core Accountabilities:

Infrastructure & Platform Strategy

Own the multi-year infrastructure and cloud strategy and investment roadmap. Translate GreenShield's business direction into platform architecture, lifecycle, capacity and financial plans. Establish standards that govern workload placement, technology currency, resilience, automation and cost efficiency across the hybrid estate.

Enterprise Modernization & Transformation

Lead the rationalization and modernization of platforms, tooling, data centre footprint and duplicate technologies. Drive cloud migration, legacy retirement and infrastructure refresh with measurable reductions in technical debt, operational risk and complexity.

• Advance infrastructure automation, Infrastructure-as-Code and repeatable engineering practices.
• Enable transformation programs by ensuring infrastructure readiness, performance, scalability and recoverability.
• Develop platform engineering and self-service capabilities where they improve speed, control and consistency.

Platform Ownership

Provide end-to-end accountability for GreenShield's infrastructure estate, including hybrid cloud and hosted environments, Windows Server and virtualization, storage and backup, enterprise networking and telecommunications, and database platforms i.e. Oracle, Google, and Microsoft and others. Ensure platforms meet defined availability, performance, capacity, security and recoverability targets.

Enterprise Uptime & Service Operations

Lead 24/7 infrastructure operations against defined service and performance targets. Own major incident command, problem management, operational reviews and infrastructure change governance. Establish clear service ownership, operational measures and continuous-improvement disciplines that protect business-critical services.

Observability, Automation & Reliability

Mature GreenShield's enterprise observability capability using tools such as Dynatrace and related tooling. Move the organization from reactive alerting toward proactive detection, service health intelligence, automated remediation and prevention. Introduce practical Site Reliability Engineering practices that reduce operational toil and improve reliability.

Contact Centre & Business Partnership

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