Senior Systems Integration Engineer

University of California - Riverside; Riverside (CA); On-site; USD 126,700 - 248,700; Full time

Job summary

University of California - Riverside is seeking a Senior Systems Integration Engineer in ITS to define strategy and deliver advanced integration solutions across healthcare and higher education operations.

This hybrid role involves 2–3 days onsite, collaborating on clinical services, administrative functions, and digital health initiatives while ensuring strict privacy and cybersecurity standards are followed.

Qualifications

• Senior-level systems integration expertise across complex environments.
• Experience aligning IT strategy with clinical services and administrative operations.
• Knowledge of healthcare regulations and data privacy standards.

Responsibilities

• Define strategy, engineer, and deliver the technological backbone powering operations.
• Direct design and deployment of complex integration solutions across hardware and software.
• Represent IT on location-wide and system-wide committees and drive technical direction.
• Ensure engineering practices meet healthcare regulatory, privacy, and cybersecurity requirements.

Skills

Systems integration

Healthcare IT

Cybersecurity

Stakeholder management

Job description

The Senior Systems Integration Engineer in Information Technology Solutions (ITS) will specifically support the UCR School of Medicine and UCR Health. Applying expert-level, organization-wide systems and software integration expertise, this position will be responsible for defining a strategy, engineering, and delivering the technological backbone that powers our higher education and healthcare organization's operations, patient care, and innovation. This role will direct the design and deployment of the most complex integration solutions—spanning vendor, community‑source, and locally developed hardware and software systems—that directly support clinical services, administrative functions, and digital health initiatives. Serving as a recognized subject matter expert at the location and within the industry, the incumbent will represent department and institutional IT on location‑wide, institution‑wide, and system‑wide committees, contribute to the technical direction and architecture for technology across one or more specialties, and ensure all engineering practices and deployed systems adhere to strict healthcare regulations, data privacy standards, and cybersecurity best practices.

This position is classified as hybrid with occasional visits to health care clinics as needed. Hybrid schedule will likely be 2-3 days on‑site and schedule will be discussed and agreed upon between the successful candidate and supervisor.

The full salary range for the System Integration Engineer is $126,700 - $248,700 annually. However, the pay scale for this position is up to $165,000 annually. We base salary offers on a variety of considerations, such as education, licensure and certifications, experience, and other business and organizational needs.

Applicants must have current work authorization when accepting a UCR staff position. Currently, UCR is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa for staff.

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.