Senior IT Architect - Healthcare Data & EMR Integration

University of California - Irvine Health; Orange (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

UCI Health seeks an experienced architect to design high-quality solutions aligning with business blueprints and enterprise services. The role focuses on scalable, high-performance architectures across Epic-related and non-EMR systems, and requires strong project leadership and stakeholder collaboration.

The incumbent will lead architecture discussions, ensure alignment with infrastructure standards, and promote flexible, robust designs for ongoing health system initiatives.

Qualifications

• Substantial understanding of mapping data from systems outside an EMR/Epic, such as third party vendors and/or large file uploads into IT-supported systems, including Epic.
• Previous project management / lead experience.
• Must possess the skill, knowledge and ability essential to the successful performance of assigned duties.
• Must demonstrate customer service skills appropriate to the job.
• Must be willing and able to work occasional weekends and evenings as needed.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Demonstrated organizational and project management skills.
• Demonstrated experience of integrating applications across all facets of a Health System including Billing, Registration, HIM, Inpatient, Ambulatory, Emergency/Urgent Cares and Surgical areas, as well as HL7 integration of third party systems with an EMR/Epic.
• Demonstrated ability in determining how technology can be applied to meet business needs.
• Broad knowledge of business process including disaster recovery, business continuity and risk management.
• Bachelors degree in related area and/or equivalent experience and training.
• Ability to take creative and abstract concepts and produce a solid application framework.
• Ability to maintain a work pace appropriate to the workload.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships across the Health System.
• Ability to discover and define technical requirements and their relationship to functional requirements and to determine the adequacy of documented requirements for architecture definition.
• Ability to design and manage high-level projects, lead governance decision making and development of end-to-end processes.
• 10 plus years experience architecting, developing, deploying, and supporting complex computing applications in a medium to large scale environment, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Create high quality solution designs addressing architectural concerns
• Align designs with business blueprints, delivery constraints, and enterprise standards
• Deliver scalable, high-performance architecture solutions across IT systems

Skills

Data mapping to EMR/Epic systems

Project management / lead experience

Customer service skills

Clear written and verbal English

Organizational and project management

Technical requirements vs functional

High-level project design & governance

Cross-functional collaboration

Disaster recovery & business Continuit

Ability to manage workload pace

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Master's degree (preferred)

Job description

UCI Health seeks an experienced architect to design high-quality solutions aligning with business blueprints and enterprise services. The role focuses on scalable, high-performance architectures across Epic-related and non-EMR systems, and requires strong project leadership and stakeholder collaboration.

The incumbent will lead architecture discussions, ensure alignment with infrastructure standards, and promote flexible, robust designs for ongoing health system initiatives.