Data Architects

FLSA Code

FLSA Code Computer Employee

Patient Sensitive Job Code?

Patient Sensitive Job Code? No

Standard Hours per Week 40

Full Time or Part Time? Full Time

Shift Day

Work Schedule Summary

Employees must reside in the state of Utah but might have the opportunity to work a hybrid (in‑office and remote) work schedule. Possible consideration of a request for a fully remote work schedule, subject to approval and change.

VP Area U of U Health - Academics

Department 00952 - Division of Epidemiology

Location Campus

City Salt Lake City, UT

Type of Recruitment External Posting

Close Date 03/23/2026

Data Architects work with a talented team of developers, researchers, and clinicians in the University of Utah Division of Epidemiology to conduct large‑scale research projects in the domain of infectious diseases. The successful candidate will work collaboratively to develop analysis plans and technical specifications, maintain study documentation, create study cohorts and analytic files from relational databases, extract information from clinical text using natural language processing (NLP), and conduct basic and advanced statistical analyses within the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW) and the University of Utah Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC) environments.

Previous experience with VA CDW, University Electronic Data Warehouse (EDW), or other large electronic health record or administrative healthcare data sets is strongly preferred.

Must be proficient in data analysis and management familiar with Microsoft Business Intelligence stack.

Experience with TSQL, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS and Power BI is strongly preferred. Proficiency in either Python or R is required. Expert use of natural language processing libraries (spaCy, medspa

Cy, huggingface, etc.) and/or machine learning frameworks (scikit‑learn, Pytorch, etc.) is a plus.

Opportunity for advancement depending upon experience and performance.

Learn more about the great benefits of working for University of Utah: benefits.utah.edu

• Design, deploy, and manage the organization’s data architecture. Collaborate with technology and management teams to understand structural requirements and define standards for how data will be stored, consumed, integrated, and managed across the organization and translate into a usable blueprint.
• Build an inventory of data needed to implement architecture and create a vision for how data will flow through the organization.
• Design and build complex data models, approve modifications, and implement systems.
• Implement measures to ensure data accuracy and accessibility, constantly monitoring and refining the performance of data management systems.
• Produce and enforce database development standards.
• Possess strong understanding of data modeling tools and standards, ETL tools, and big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Pig, No
  
  SQL).

Equivalency Statement: 1 year of higher education can be substituted for 1 year of directly related work experience (Example: bachelor’s degree = 4 years of directly related work experience).

• Data Architect, IV:
  Requires a bachelor’s (or equivalency) + 8 years or a master’s (or equivalency) + 6 years of directly related work experience.
• Data Architect, V:
  Requires a bachelor’s (or equivalency) + 10 years or a master’s (or equivalency) + 8 years of directly related work experience.
• Data Architect, VI:
  Requires a bachelor’s (or equivalency) + 12 years or a master’s (or equivalency) + 10 years of directly related work experience.
• Data Architect, VII:
  Requires a bachelor’s (or equivalency) + 14 years or a master’s (or equivalency) + 12 years of directly related work experience.

The University is a participating employer with Utah Retirement Systems (URS). Eligible new hires with prior URS service may elect to enroll in URS if they make the election before they become eligible for retirement (usually the first day of work). Contact Human Resources at  for information. Individuals who previously retired and are receiving monthly retirement benefits from URS are subject to URS’ post‑retirement rules and restrictions.

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