IT Architect 5 TX - Enterprise Data & Analytics - FT - Days

UCI Health; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Retirement plans

Employee discounts

Job summary

UCI Health, based in Irvine, CA, seeks an IT Architect 5 to lead cloud data architecture for enterprise analytics. You will design and deploy data warehouse platforms across Azure/AWS/GCP, aligning with healthcare privacy and regulatory requirements.

Collaboration with stakeholders across clinical, financial, and operational domains is essential for success. Ideal candidates bring 8+ years of experience, strong documentation skills, and fluency in English, with capacity to manage multiple

Qualifications

• 8+ years of architecting and deploying data and analytics in healthcare warehouses.
• Experience leading cloud data strategies across Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Strong cross-team collaboration with stakeholders in large health systems.
• Willing to work weekends/evenings as needed.
• Proficient documenting in centralized repositories and data models.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication.
• Understanding of healthcare privacy and regulatory laws (HIPAA, HITECH, PCI).

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of cloud data warehouse platforms for analytics.
• Collaborate with multiple teams across the healthcare enterprise.
• Create and maintain technical documentation and data models.
• Manage multiple data/analytics projects concurrently.
• Ensure secure handling of sensitive health data.

Skills

Cloud data architecture

Data warehouse design

Stakeholder collaboration

Project management

Technical documentation

English communication

Healthcare domain knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

MS Azure

AWS

GCP

Snowflake

Databricks

Confluence

JIRA

Job description

Who We Are

UCI Health is one of California's largest academic health systems and the clinical enterprise of the University of California, Irvine. Established on July 1, 1976, UCI Health has grown into a 1,461-bed health system that includes UCI Health - Orange, UCI Health - Irvine, four Community Network hospitals and a growing network of ambulatory care centers across Orange and Los Angeles counties.

Who We Are

UCI Health is one of California's largest academic health systems and the clinical enterprise of the University of California, Irvine. Established on July 1, 1976, UCI Health has grown into a 1,461-bed health system that includes UCI Health - Orange, UCI Health - Irvine, four Community Network hospitals and a growing network of ambulatory care centers across Orange and Los Angeles counties.

Your Role on the Team

Position Summary

IT ARCHITECT 5 TX

Required Qualifications

What It Takes to be Successful

• Strong track record of successfully leading technical data strategy, design, development, implementation, and maintenance of modern cloud enterprise data warehouse platforms to support analytics including data science and AI on one of the cloud platforms like MS Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Proven experience collaborating with stakeholders across multiple teams within a large healthcare enterprise.
• Must possess the skills, knowledge and abilities essential to the successful performance of assigned duties
• Must be willing and able to work occasional weekends and evenings as needed
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experience developing and maintaining technical documentation within a centralized code repository and database modeling tools
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Broad knowledge of business processes, including financial, clinical, and operational requirements of health systems.
• Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 8+ years of experience in architecting, developing, deploying, and supporting complex data and analytics applications in medium to large-scale healthcare data warehouse environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong preference for experience using any one of the cloud-based technologies such as MS Azure, AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, and GCP.
• Expertise in mapping data from systems such as Strata, API, Kronos, Oracle ERP, Kuali Finance system, and EMRs like Epic, Cerner, and Athena, as well as integrating data from other third-party vendor applications and handling large file transfers across internal and external systems.
• Experience working in an academic hospital in the role of Enterprise Data Architect or an equivalent position.
• Experience in understanding the healthcare privacy and regulatory laws not limiting to HIPAA, HITECH, PCI etc.,
• Ability to work effectively in an agile team structure, with hands-on experience using agile tools such as Confluence, JIRA, and MS Teams.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with ETL tools like Matillion, DBT, Talend, Informatica, and MS Factory.

Total Rewards

We offer a wealth of benefits to make working at UCI even more rewarding. These benefits may include medical insurance, sick and vacation time, retirement savings plans, and access to a number of discounts and perks. Please utilize the links listed here to learn more about our compensation practices and benefits.

Conditions Of Employment

The University of California, Irvine (UCI) seeks to provide a safe and healthy environment for the entire UCI community. As part of this commitment, all applicants who accept an offer of employment must comply with the following conditions of employment:

• Background Check and Live Scan
• Employment Misconduct*
• Legal Right to Work in the United States
• Vaccination Policies
• Smoking and Tobacco Policy
• Drug Free Environment

Exercise the utmost discretion in managing sensitive information learned in the course of performing their duties. Sensitive information includes but is not limited to employee and student records, health and patient records, financial data, strategic plans, proprietary information, and any other sensitive or non-public information learned during the course and scope of employment. Understands that sensitive information should be shared on a limited basis and actively takes steps to limit access to sensitive information to individuals who have legitimate business need to know. Ensure that sensitive information is properly safeguarded. Follow all organizational policies and laws on data protection and privacy. This includes secure handling of physical and digital records and proper usage of IT systems to prevent data leaks. The unauthorized or improper disclosure of confidential work-related information obtained from any source on any work-related matter is a violation of these expectations.

• Misconduct Disclosure Requirement: As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.

• California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act
• E-Verify
• Pre-Placement Health Evaluation

Details of each policy may be reviewed by visiting the following page: https://hr.uci.edu/new-hire/conditions-of-employment.php

Closing Statement

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories covered by the UC Anti-Discrimination Policy.

We are committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce along with honoring unique experiences, perspectives, and identities. Together, our community strives to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable, and welcoming.

UCI provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities upon request. For more information, please contact UCI's Employee Experience Center (EEC) at [e-mail] or at [phone], Monday - Friday from 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Consideration for Work Authorization Sponsorship

Must be able to provide proof of work authorization