The Data Architect plays a critical role in driving technology initiatives to enhance health informatics and analytics within the health sciences. This role focuses on optimizing the usability, performance, and overall architecture of the enterprise data warehouse. The Data Architect will be responsible for developing data extraction, transformation, and loading processes between source and target data structures, while also supporting junior developers working on development of data warehouse, in collaboration with data architecture and other stakeholders. Additionally, the Data Architect will actively contribute to data modeling and data mapping activities.

The ideal candidate will write efficient, high-performance, and scalable code, with a thorough knowledge of the internal workings of SQL Server and other database systems. This position plays a pivotal role in supporting UCLA Health’s initiatives aimed at improving clinical, financial, and operational outcomes. Thus, the Data Architect should have a deep understanding of clinical, financial, and operational challenges, as well as the ability to identify and work with targeted healthcare datasets (both structured and unstructured) to address these issues.