Overview:
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.
As Orange County’s only academic health systems, UCI Health is home to the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center based in the county, the region’s only American College of Surgeons-verified Level I adult and Level II pediatric trauma center, American College of Emergency Physicians Gold Level 1 Geriatric Emergency Department and a nationally recognized regional burn center verified by the American Burn Association. Powered by UC Irvine, UCI Health serves 5.6 million people across Orange County, western Riverside County and southeast Los Angeles County through excellence in patient care, research and medical education.
Responsibilities:
Position Summary:
The incumbent will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining governed data models and enterprise reporting and analytics solutions supporting quality metrics, regulatory requirements, and clinical, operational, and research needs, using Epic-based electronic health data as well as other healthcare data sources. The incumbent will work on a multidisciplinary team of analytics engineers, data engineers, data architects, and BI developers within the Enterprise Data and Analytics Department and will collaborate with other institutions across University of California Health. The incumbent will use tools in use at UCI Health, including Microsoft Fabric, data transformation and governance tools, Git-based version control, and Microsoft Power BI, to deliver high-quality, reliable, and accurate analytics products. This position requires treating data transformation as a software engineering discipline, in which version control, code review, automated testing, modular data modeling, and documentation are integral to the work rather than supplementary tasks. The incumbent will help transform a traditional report-writing analytics function into a modern data product organization, and will partner closely with end users to understand and anticipate how data models and structures can proactively solve clinical, operational, and research challenges.
Qualifications:
Required Qualifications:
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Must possess the skill, knowledge and ability essential to the successful performance of assigned duties
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Must demonstrate customer service skills appropriate to the job
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
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Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field and/or combination of education and equivalent work experience
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Ability to perform basic performance tuning to optimize queries to meet user needs
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Ability to maintain a work pace appropriate to the workload
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Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships across the Health System, School of Medicine, UCI Research Administration and other UC System campuses
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5+ years working in healthcare analytics experience (EHR data)
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5+ years of experience with SQL
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3+ years of healthcare related analytics or reporting experience
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3+ years of experience with Business Intelligence reporting tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Crystal Reports, etc.
Preferred Qualifications:
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Master’s degree in computer science or related field and/or combination of education and equivalent work experience
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Experience using Collibra or similar Data Governance platform
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Experience in software development life cycle, including CI/CD and automated testing practices applied to data pipelinesExperience developing code and maintaining technical documentation within a centralized code repository
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Epic Revenue cycle clarity data model certification(s)
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Epic Clarity / Caboodle Certification
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5+ years experience with SSMS, SSIS, PowerBI or Tableau
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3+ years experience working with healthcare finance and revenue cycle data
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3+ years experience working with cloud-based analytics platforms and architecture (e.g., Fabric, Databricks)
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3+ years experience working with Epic EHR
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3+ years experience using version control and collaborative code review workflows
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1+ years of hands-on experience building and testing data models in dbt (data build tool), including staging/intermediate/mart layer design and dbt tests
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:
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Background Check and Live Scan
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Employment Misconduct*
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Legal Right to Work in the United States
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Vaccination Policies
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Smoking and Tobacco Policy
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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.
The following additional conditions may apply, some of which are dependent upon business unit or job specific requirements.
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California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act
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E-Verify
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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
[email protected] or at (949) 824-0500, Monday - Friday from 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
