Senior Research Informatics Data Science Solutions Architect

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Children's Hospital Colorado has defined and delivered pediatric healthcare excellence for more than 100 years.

Here, the nation's brightest nurses, physicians, scientists, researchers, therapists, and care providers are creating the future of child health. With an optimist's outlook, a trailblazing spirit, and a celebrated history, we're making new strides every day.

We've been Magnet-designated four times by the American Nurses Credentialing Center and are consistently recognized among the best of the best pediatric hospitals with #1 rankings in Colorado and the region by U.S. News & World Report.

As a national leader in pediatric care, we serve children and families from all over the nation. Our System of Care includes four pediatric hospitals, 11 specialty care centers, 1,300+ outreach clinics and more than 10,000 healthcare professionals representing the full spectrum of pediatric care specialties.

Here, we know it takes all of us, every role, to deliver the best possible care to each child and family we treat.

That's why we build our teams toward a foundation of equity in access, advancement, and opportunity. We know teams of individuals with different identities and backgrounds can nurture creativity and innovation. We know we can see, treat, and heal children better when our team reflects the diversity of our patient population. We strive to attract and retain diverse talent because we know a truly inclusive and equitable workforce will help us one day realize our most basic calling: to heal every child who comes through our doors.

A career at Children's Colorado will challenge you, inspire you, and motivate you to make a difference in the life of a child. Here, it's different.

The Senior Research Informatics Data Science Solutions Architect role will be responsible for supporting the Research Informatics & Data Science infrastructure. This includes initial and ongoing assessment of infrastructure and needs related to research analytics. This role will partner with the Analytics Resource Center, Information Technology, Information Security and vendors to develop, enhance and maintain research analytic environments for large, complex data sets and advanced computational methods, leveraging both on premises and cloud infrastructure. This role is expected to provide recommendations, facilitate consensus on design choices for research informatics and data science work. This role requires broad knowledge of tools and methods for research informatics and analytics, including use of open-source tools and emerging technologies. This role will identify, acquire new data sources, including internal data sources, such as monitor data, including waveforms, and external data sources and integrate these into the research infrastructure. This role will develop and maintain pipelines for machine learning operations and for use in analytic systems, including generative AI systems. This role will aid in the validation, monitoring, and implementation of models and risk scores into the electronic health record to support research and clinical decisions. This role will develop and maintain semantic indexes and infrastructure to support the use of Large Language Models in the research context. For individual projects, this role will partner with analysts, engineers, data scientists, research teams, the Analytics Resource Center and IT to develop solutions to meet project needs, while optimizing existing infrastructure. This role will develop team members to better support exceedingly complex and highly technical projects and systems and will be a go to technical leader.

This position is responsible for the full performance of complex work providing enterprise level system design guidance and consultation, utilizing a thorough understanding of applicable technology, tools and existing designs. Duties include collaborating with technical team, manager, customers and project managers to develop system and technology requirements to meet organizational and end user needs. Provides recommendations regarding configuration, design, usability and maintainability for services, applications, interfaces and other dependencies that integrate with system platforms. This position may perform lead work over lower level staff.

Potential Specialty Areas: Business Intelligence, Clinical, Enterprise Systems Integration, Epic

Department Name: CCHRI - Research Informatics
Hours per week: 40, eligible for benefits
Shift: Monday - Friday, 8am-5pm. Work hours may vary depending on the need of the department.

*This position has potential to be fully remote if applicant is located within CHCO hiring region.

• EDUCATION - Bachelor's degree is required.
  • Master's or higher in health/medical/clinical informatics or computer science is preferred.
• EXPERIENCE - Minimum of eight (8) years of related experience is required.
  • Prefer experience with Python, R, Denodo, git, MS SQL. Also, prefer experience with common data models, such as OMOP.
• EQUIVALENCY - Combination of post-high school education, job related certification and/or related experience equivalent to twelve (12) years may be considered in lieu of minimum requirements.
• Certification Preference: Epic Cogito certifications, such as Caboodle, Clarity

POPULATION SPECIFIC CARE

• No direct patient care.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
An employee in this position may be called upon to do any or all of the following essential functions. These examples do not include all of the functions which the employee may be expected to perform.

• Ensure the evolution of the organization's architecture is aligned with changing business requirements, emerging technologies, industry best practices, budgetary constraints and organizational strategic goals.
• Establishes, guides and monitors architectural approaches and technical solutions for business requests and desired functionality. Provides complex technical architecture options and makes recommendations to meet project objectives.
• Partners with other involved parties create technology road maps and align development plans to ensure effective integration of various systems, identify and provide recommendations regarding overlapping or competitive technologies.
• Designs complex solutions according to specifications, business needs and organizational guidelines and standards. Reviews designs from other technologists to maintain reliability and promote reuse.
• Communicates architecture and design details to team members, senior management and stakeholders.
• Creates, maintains, assists and/or mentors with departmental documentation.
• Troubleshoots and resolves complex technical issues, communicates issues and perceived risks.
• Creates and maintains positive culture, leading team by exemplifying desired behaviors (SoB, Behavioral Rubric), mentoring and fostering collaboration.
• Supports project initiatives by reviewing designs and estimates to validate implementation projections, scope and deliverables. Proactively communicates issues or perceived risks to the project.
• Maintains expertise in relevant subject matter, uses expertise to mentor others.
• Supports outreach, education and communication of standards under the organization governance and quality initiative.

SCOPE & LEVEL

Guidelines: Fully qualified, full performance or journey level. Guidelines are generally but not always clearly applicable, requiring the employee to exercise judgment in selecting the most pertinent guideline, interpret precedents, adapt standard practices to differing situations, and recommend alternative actions in situations without precedent.

Complexity: Duties assigned are generally complex and may be of substantial intricacy. Work assignment is performed within an established framework under general instructions but requires simultaneous coordination of assigned functions or projects in various stages of completion.

Decision Making: Exercises judgment and discretion, and is responsible for determining the time, place and sequence of the work performed.

Communications: Contacts with team members, clients or the public where explanatory or interpretive information is exchanged, defended, and gathered and discretion and judgment are required within the parameters of the job function.

Supervision Received: Performs work with minimal supervisory oversight. Under general supervision, the employee receives assignments and is expected to carry them through to completion with substantial independence. Work is reviewed for adherence to instructions, accuracy, completeness, and conformance to standard practice or precedent. Recurring work clearly covered by guidelines may or may not be reviewed

PHYSICAL REQUIRMENTS

• Vision - Near: clear vision at 20 inches or less
• Weight Lifted/Force Exerted: up to 10 pounds/4.5 kilos, up to 1/3 of time
• Hearing: able to clearly hear details
• Sit: 2/3 or more of time
• Talk: able to communicate verbally
• Mental/Emotional: able to work in close proximity to others and/or in a distracting environment
• Mental/Emotional: able to cope with stress effectively
• Mental/Emotional: able to prioritize effectively

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Mental/Emotional: able to tolerate ambiguity
• Mental/Emotional: able to prioritize effectively
• Mental/Emotional: may be subject to many interruptions
• Office Work Environment: Regular/frequent exposure
• Bloodborne Pathogen Category 2: Occasional exposure to blood/body fluid

It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information.

The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.

Colorado Residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

Here, you matter. As a Children's Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development resources to help you advance and grow.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children's Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.