Senior IT Architect - Healthcare Systems & EMR Integration

UCI Health Regional Burn Center; Orange (CA); On-site; USD 139,000 - 273,000; Full time

Job summary

UCI Health is seeking an experienced IT Architect to create high-quality solution designs addressing business, information, application, and infrastructure concerns. The role aligns designs with business blueprints, delivery constraints, and enterprise standards to deliver flexible, scalable, and high-performance architecture.

Ideal candidates will have Epic/EMR integration experience, strong project leadership, and excellent English communication.

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

• Incumbent creates high quality solution designs which address all architectural concerns including business, information, application, and infrastructure
• Designs architecture which will align with business blueprints, delivery constraints, enterprise business services, enterprise framework services, and infrastructure standards
• Delivers design solutions that promote flexibility, scalability, and high-performance

Skills

EMR/Epic integration

Project management

Communication skills

English proficiency

Healthcare IT

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

HL7 integration

Enterprise architecture tools

Job description

UCI Health is seeking an experienced IT Architect to create high-quality solution designs addressing business, information, application, and infrastructure concerns. The role aligns designs with business blueprints, delivery constraints, and enterprise standards to deliver flexible, scalable, and high-performance architecture.

Ideal candidates will have Epic/EMR integration experience, strong project leadership, and excellent English communication.