Senior Data Engineer - Enterprise Data and Analytics - FT - Day - Remote - University of California, Irvine

UCI Health is the clinical enterprise of the University of California, Irvine, and the only academic health system based in Orange County. UCI Health is comprised of its main campus, UCI Medical Center, a 459-bed, acute care hospital in in Orange, Calif., four hospitals and affiliated physicians of the UCI Health Community Network in Orange and Los Angeles counties and ambulatory care centers across the region. Listed among America’s Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report for 23 consecutive years, UCI Medical Center provides tertiary and quaternary care and is home to Orange County’s only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center, high-risk perinatal/neonatal program and American College of Surgeons-verified Level I adult and Level II pediatric trauma center, gold level 1 geriatric emergency department and regional burn center. UCI Health serves a region of nearly 4 million people in Orange County, western Riverside County and southeast Los Angeles County.

To learn more about UCI Health, visit www.ucihealth.org.

Position Summary:

The incumbent will be responsible for implementing and maintaining the infrastructure, tools, and analytical application environments necessary to support the UCI Health enterprise strategic vision. The incumbent will work on a team of data specialists within the Enterprise Data and Analytics Department to ensure the proper configuration, movement, transformation, and quality of data as it flows from multiple source systems towards ultimate analytical consumption. Initial projects will include the implementation of an infrastructure migration to the cloud along with future expansion of the data platform for dynamic reporting and advanced analytics capabilities.

Total Compensation

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.

Required Qualifications:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Must possess the skill, knowledge and ability essential to the successful performance of assigned duties
• Must demonstrate customer service skills appropriate to the job
• Experience maintaining technical documentation and reviewing code within a centralized code repository
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related field) or equivalent work experience
• Ability to maintain a work pace appropriate to the workload
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships across the Health System
• 3+ years with SQL or NoSQL databases and data warehousing technologies
• 3+ years hands-on experience with ETL Tools or Business Intelligence
• 2+ years of hands-on experience creating data pipelines using Python
• 2+ years hands-on experience as a Data Engineer

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of University and Medical Center organizations, policies, procedures and forms
• Experience working with data governance and a data catalog platform (e.g., Collibra)
• Experience performing unit tests and troubleshooting complex issues/efforts with other team members or cross divisional teams
• Experience creating and optimizing data pipelines capable of ingesting and integrating data from multiple heterogenous sources with advanced analytics capabilities (e.g., NLP, ML)
• Ability to work in agile team structure
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in pipeline orchestration tools, logging, monitoring & alerting, troubleshooting, and automated testing & deployments (CI/CD), preferably using cloud-based technologies (e.g., Azure, Databricks, AWS)

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
• Legal Right to Work in the United States
• Vaccination Policies
• Smoking and Tobacco Policy
• Drug Free Environment

The following additional conditions may apply, some of which are dependent upon business unit or job specific requirements.

• 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, Irvine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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 nondiscrimination 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 eec@uci.edu or at (949) 824-0500, Monday - Friday from 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.