Vice President of Technology

Company: Primary Health Partners 

Title: VP of Technology

Join a team that’s redefining healthcare!

About Us

Primary Health Partners is a fast-growing Direct Primary Care (DPC) company on a mission to transform healthcare. We’re building a proprietary technology platform to improve patient care, empower clinicians, and fuel smarter decisions.

The Role

Our Vice President of Technology will be our top technology leader. Reporting to the CEO, you’ll set the vision and lead execution across software, data, security and analytics. This individual will be “hands-on” and will develop and improve the methodology leveraged by the team for requirements definition, LOE estimation, functional specifications, detailed design, coding, testing, operations training, and implementation activities. You will build the platform, scale the team and make sure technology drives both patient outcomes and organizational growth.

Minimum Requirements

• 10 years of software development experience across the full SDLC
• 5 years in technical leadership roles with direct team management
• 3 years building and scaling DevOps practices
• Deep knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and automation tools
• Implemented DevOps pipeline for Code Management
• Hands-on AWS experience, specifically with EC2 and related services (VPC, Load Balancers, RDS, S3, IAM)
• Expert knowledge of both application and system architecture
• Deep understanding of HIPAA Security Rule and Privacy Rule requirements
• Proven track record implementing and maintaining HIPAA compliance programs
• Experience or knowledge implementing authentication and authorization (OAuth 2.0, JWT, MFA), Data encryption in transit (TLS 1.2 ) and at rest
• Experience or knowledge with React-native, Java Spring-boot, PostgreSQL

Responsibilities

DevOps & Infrastructure

• Build and lead our DevOps practice from the ground up, establishing processes, tools, and culture

·      Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, deployment, and monitoring

·      Architect and maintain AWS infrastructure with focus on scalability, reliability, and cost optimization

·      Establish infrastructure as code practices and maintain version-controlled infrastructure configurations

·      Define and enforce deployment strategies, rollback procedures, and disaster recovery plans

 Technology Leadership

• Oversee full-stack architecture decisions across React front-ends, Java Spring Boot services, and PostgreSQL databases

·      Lead technical evaluation and selection of tools, frameworks, and third-party services

·      Establish coding standards, best practices, and technical documentation requirements

·      Conduct architecture reviews and provide technical guidance to development teams

·      Balance technical debt with business objectives and client deliverables

Security & Compliance

• Own HIPAA compliance program including policies, procedures, and technical controls

·      Implement and maintain security measures for PHI across all layers of the technology stack

·      Conduct regular security risk assessments and vulnerability management

·      Lead incident response procedures and breach notification protocols

·      Manage Business Associate Agreements and ensure vendor compliance

·      Establish audit logging, monitoring, and reporting systems for compliance requirements

·      Train development teams on secure coding practices and HIPAA requirements

Team Building & Management

• Recruit, hire, and mentor engineering talent across development and DevOps roles

·      Build and scale technical teams to support company growth

·      Conduct performance reviews and create career development paths for team members

·      Foster a culture of continuous improvement, learning, and innovation

·      Provide technical mentorship and knowledge sharing across the organization

Client & Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner with CEO and CFO on technical strategy and business development initiatives

·      Communicate technical concepts and project status to non-technical stakeholders

·      Participate in client meetings to understand requirements and provide technical expertise

·      Identify opportunities for process improvement and automation in client engagements

·      Represent our technical capabilities in proposals and presentations

Process & Quality

• Establish and enforce SDLC processes across all projects

·      Implement quality assurance practices including code reviews, testing strategies, and performance monitoring

·      Define project estimation methodologies and technical delivery timelines

·      Create and maintain technical documentation standards

·      Monitor system performance, uptime, and user experience metrics

Critical Behaviors

Leadership

• Establish direction for team and provide needed resources, leadership, and performance feedback
• Flexibly leads and manages during times of ambiguity
• Prevent, defuse, and resolve conflicts in order to work cooperatively and productively
• Actively identifies opportunities to improve and acts
• Develop and maintain effective client (internal and external) relationships
• Proactively identifies and solves problems
• Accepts and accommodates shifting priorities
• Demonstrate flexibility by changing directions based on specific situations
• Demonstrates and shares strategic business perspective
• Ensures team goals align with strategy
• Cultivates big picture perspective that focuses on the client
• Collaborates with team members and clients on measures of success

Client Focus

• Ensures a clear understanding and acts toward meeting client’s needs
• Proactively communicates progress of work
• Follows through with clients to monitor their level of satisfaction
• Facilitates working together to meet common goals
• Resolves conflicts directly, tactfully, timely and in a fact-based manner

Organizing and Planning

• Conduct sound planning, tracking, controlling and costing
• Considers workload and skill sets when delegating
• Transition executive direction into specific actions and activities
• Prioritize portfolio and project level assignments
• Master basic risk management theory, concepts and practices
• Apply qualitative and quantitative techniques for assessing impact
• Participate with clients to establish the feasibility of a solution for newly identified business needs
• Work with peers to coordinate inter-dependent activities

Communication

• Develop and organize communications to achieve the desired effect
• Ability to tailor communications to the target audience
• Ability to present ideas in a clear and concise manner
• Restates concerns, needs and expectations to ensure clarity

Effective Decision Making

• Develops sound rationale for decisions (in line with PHP’s objectives)
• Weighs alternatives and consequences based on facts
• Makes firm recommendations in appropriate time frame
• Evaluates processes, relationships and results in examining problems
• Uses fact-based, quantitative and systematic approach and draws valid conclusions

At PHP, we know that our people are our greatest asset, so we take care of them. This position offers: 

• Competitive base compensation incentive (no cap) 
• Health, Dental, Vision & Life insurance – paid for employee dependents 
• 401k with matching, no vesting period 
• Life Insurance 
• Phone & Car stipend 
• Generous PTO 

If you are interested in applying or learning more, please send your resume via email to: 

Patti Milford 

HR Manager 

• Patti@phpdpc.com