Senior Manager Digital Health & Technology

About the Role

Qiddiya Investment Company is seeking a Senior Manager, Digital Health & Technology to join their team in Riyadh, Riyadh Province. This full-time role is responsible for defining, prioritizing, and ensuring the delivery readiness of QHC’s healthcare digital, data, and technology requirements. The Senior Manager will translate clinical, operational, and corporate priorities into clear technology requirements, delivery roadmaps, information flows, and reporting needs, coordinating with QIC / QTech on solution design, architecture alignment, implementation planning, and service readiness.

In a healthcare startup environment, technology is a critical enabler for clinical operations, reporting, integration, and patient experience. This position supports the prioritization of required systems across Sports Medicine, Citywide Healthcare, and IHN, tracking technology dependencies, delivery risks, and readiness requirements. Within Sport Medicine / Performance, technology forms core infrastructure, including electronic health records, clinical and athlete-monitoring platforms, analytics, and cybersecurity, which must be specified, procured, deployed, and integrated to enable safe clinical delivery and evidence-based performance health.

Key Accountabilities

• Implement the approved QHC Digital Blueprint and define QHC's health technology requirements and digital roadmap across clinical, operational, and enabling domains, aligned with startup priorities and the target operating model.
• Translate clinical and business needs into technology specifications, architecture principles, and a prioritized delivery plan.
• Advise leadership on build-versus-leverage decisions across the QIC / QTech and partner ecosystem.
• Coordinate with QTech and relevant function owners on interoperability and integration requirements across clinical, operational, and administrative systems.
• Define QHC’s healthcare data requirements, information flows, data ownership, and reporting needs across functions.
• Define and coordinate analytics and reporting requirements that support data-driven clinical, operational, and leadership decision-making.
• Track data availability, quality, ownership, and reporting gaps, coordinating with function owners to ensure healthcare data is usable for decision-making.
• Define, establish, and manage service-level agreements with QIC / QTech and technology partners, ensuring strong, accountable service delivery to QHC.
• Monitor vendor and partner performance against SLAs and drive remediation where service falls short.
• Act as the primary QHC coordination point with QTech and relevant technology stakeholders on healthcare-specific technology requirements and delivery priorities.
• In coordination with QIC, embed cybersecurity, data privacy, and information-governance controls across all platforms and data flows from the outset.
• Oversee deployment and integration readiness for all technology, ensuring systems are tested, secure, and operational ahead of go-live milestones.
• Identify and introduce digital health innovations, such as telehealth, remote athlete monitoring, wearables, and AI-assisted tools, aligned with partner best practice.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Health Informatics, Engineering, or a related field is required. A Master's degree and recognized certifications (*, health informatics, cybersecurity, TOGAF, ITIL, or vendor platform certifications) are an advantage.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in digital health, healthcare IT, health informatics, or technology delivery.
• Experience defining healthcare technology requirements, supporting EHR and healthcare platform delivery, and coordinating technology readiness in new or transforming organizations.
• Demonstrated experience managing technology vendors and SLAs, data management and analytics, and cybersecurity / data-privacy controls within a healthcare environment. Experience within accredited healthcare institutions (JCI, CBAHI) is an advantage.
• Working knowledge of Saudi data-protection and healthcare information regulatory frameworks, and of interoperability and integration across clinical and administrative systems.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, within a dynamic healthcare startup environment where technology is a critical enabler for operations and patient experience.