Senior Vice President, Digital Health and Chief Digital Officer
Ontario Health (OH) is leading one of the most significant digital health transformations in Canada. As the provincial agency responsible for connecting and coordinating Ontario’s health system, OH works across hospitals, primary care, home and community care, long-term care, mental health, and other sectors to advance more integrated, connected, and digitally enabled models of care. Guided by its values of Integrity, Inspiration, Tenacity, Humility, and Care, OH is helping shape the future of healthcare delivery through innovation, collaboration, and large-scale digital transformation.
The Position
OH is seeking a bold, results-focused, and enterprise-minded digital executive to serve as its next Senior Vice President, Digital Health & Chief Digital Officer (SVP & CDO). This role leads one of the largest and most complex digital health portfolios in Canada and will help shape the next generation of connected, digitally enabled, and increasingly virtual models of care across Ontario.
As a member of OH’s Senior Leadership Team, the SVP & CDO will provide strategic and operational leadership for the organization’s Digital Excellence in Health (DxH) portfolio, overseeing a broad digital ecosystem that supports healthcare providers, clinicians, organizations, and patients across the province. With responsibility for more than 1,150 staff, a multi-hundred-million-dollar budget, and a portfolio of more than 150 digital products and services, the scale and complexity of this mandate is unmatched in the Canadian healthcare landscape.
The SVP & CDO will play a central role in advancing Ontario’s Digital First for Health strategy through large-scale digital modernization, enterprise architecture, interoperability, and coordinated implementation across a highly interconnected healthcare system. Key priorities include primary care digital transformation, clinical information system integration, enterprise data services, cloud transformation, cybersecurity and cyber resilience, AI and automation enablement, virtualization of care, and modernization of critical provincial digital platforms.
Working closely with government, healthcare providers, clinicians, hospital digital leaders, vendors, and executive leaders across the system, the SVP & CDO will help advance a more connected, integrated, interoperable, secure, and clinically enabled digital environment across Ontario. This role requires a collaborative and influential leader who can build alignment across a decentralized healthcare landscape while driving disciplined execution, operational excellence, and measurable system impact.
This is not simply a technology leadership role, it is a system leadership role with the opportunity to shape how healthcare is delivered, connected, and experienced across Ontario for years to come.
The Person
The ideal candidate is an accomplished senior executive and trusted leader in digital health and information technology, with experience leading large-scale digital operations, modernization initiatives, and enterprise transformation within complex, multi-stakeholder environments. They bring demonstrated success building strong partnerships across government, healthcare organizations, clinicians, vendors, and system stakeholders, with the ability to navigate complexity, influence decision-making, and build alignment across highly interconnected environments.
A collaborative and influential executive, they are recognized for combining strategic vision with disciplined execution and operational leadership. They possess deep knowledge of the evolving digital health landscape, including enterprise technology operations, cybersecurity, interoperability, cloud transformation, clinical data services, AI and automation, and connected models of care. Equally important is the ability to balance innovation with practicality, build high-performing teams, and translate ambitious digital priorities into scalable and measurable solutions that strengthen healthcare delivery and system performance.
To confidentially explore this opportunity, please email your resume, quoting the appropriate position title, to Judy Mandelman or Heather Spiegel, at resumes@promeus.ca.
Ontario Health encourages applications from candidates who are First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and urban Indigenous; Francophone; members of Black and racialized groups; 2SLGBTQIA+ communities; trans and nonbinary individuals; and people living with disabilities. Please note that this role follows our in office work model, requiring employees to work from a designated, approved Ontario Health location
Ontario Health is an accessible employer, and offers accommodation in all aspects of employment, including the recruitment process.
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