Data Architect Manager​/UKHC

Posting Details

Job Title Data Architect Manager/UKHC

Requisition Number RE53075

Working Title Data Architecture Manager

Department Name H3997:

EVPHA Information Technology

Work Location Lexington, KY

Grade Level 14

Salary Range $93,/year

Type of Position Staff

Position Time Status Full-Time

Required Education BA

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Required Related Experience 7 yrs

Required License/Registration/Certification None

Physical Requirements Mobility to work from several locations depending on business needs; occasionally lifting, pushing, and/or pulling objects up to 50lbs; occasionally standing or walking with objects up to 10lbs; regularly sitting at a computer workstation for extended periods of time with regular repetitive motions (such as typing); occasionally dealing with combative/violent people; and occasional job-related travel.

Shift Monday through Friday; 8:00am – 5:00pm, with some evening, nights, and weekends required per business needs.

This key leadership role will support UK’s transformation by advancing data analytics and business intelligence capabilities and helping the organization leverage data as a strategic asset. This position provides both people leadership and hands‑on technical direction for a growing team that supports Epic EMR data, Azure-based analytics platforms, and enterprise reporting. The Manager sets direction, establishes standards, and ensures reliable delivery while fostering a collaborative, communicative, and high‑performing team culture.

The Data Architecture Manager leads the data architecture function of the Enterprise Data Warehouse within UK ITS , ensuring it remains adaptable to evolving industry standards and organizational needs. This position serves as a subject matter expert in data warehousing, data engineering, staging and integration—including data mapping, extraction, transformation—along with data modeling, database design, and the performance and capabilities of enterprise analytics platforms.

As part of the analytics and data warehousing leadership structure, this role guides the Data Architecture team, contributes to strategic decision‑making, and helps drive the maturation of UK’s enterprise data environment. This role manages supervisors and/or individual contributors and provides operational and technical leadership for cloud‑based data platforms, data integration, and analytics environments.

Qualified candidates must have demonstrated experience in database design, database programming, database administration and data integration/ETL or modern cloud‑native data engineering. This individual must have knowledge of project management methodologies and practices as well as strong leadership and financial management skills. The ideal candidate will have solid experience of data warehouses, data engineering practices, relational database design—the management and optimization of structured, semi‑structured and unstructured data types—data modeling, analytics and reporting tools such as SSRS, Power BI, Tableau and Cognos and data mapping and data integration tools such as Azure Data Factory, SSIS and Databricks.

The ideal candidate must have experience (or ability to quickly become proficient) with enterprise cloud data platforms (such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure). Knowledgeable in Microsoft Azure services preferred. Must be a customer‑focused, determined leader who possesses strong facilitation, presentation, conflict management, problem‑solving and communications skills.

Management & Supervision

• Manages supervisors and/or individual contributors within the data engineering and analytics platform function.
• Directs daily work activities, assigns resources, and establishes priorities to meet operational goals and service expectations.
• Conducts performance reviews and participates in employment actions including hiring, corrective action, and termination.
• Provides coaching, mentoring, and professional development to staff to build technical and operational capabilities.
• Maintains frequent communication with team…