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General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, USA
Onsite or Remote
Flexible Hybrid
Work Schedule
Monday - Friday, 8am-5pm PST
Posted Date
10/29/2024
Salary Range: $102500 - 227700 Annually
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
8633

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

As a Data Engineer on the Data Architecture team, you will play a key role in technology initiatives to advance health informatics and analytics in the health sciences by advancing the usability, performance, and overall architecture of the Data Infrastructure.  You will develop reliable, and large-scale data processing pipelines, Foundational architectural components, reusable frameworks, and Data Models to support Enterprise Data warehouse, Data Lakes, Feature Stores and Machine Learning Platform.

Involves technical acumen for planning, designing, developing, implementing, and administering data-based systems that acquire, prepare, store, and provide access to data and metadata. Maintains and optimizes systems and migrates data and systems as needed. Ensures integrity and completeness of data and workflow, manages and / or develops data practices, databases, and information systems as well as guidelines, dictionaries, registries and / or services. May include interpretation of scientific research data artifacts as well as mediation across science and technology domains and long-term data care. As information architect and data steward, designs systems, data products and / or data production processes while focusing on data curation, data exchange, data security, data integrity and information environments. (Re)evaluates frameworks, strategies, standards, and standards-making activities. May involve work with a project-level data repository, a center, or an archive.

You will be part of the team building UCLA Health’s Data Platform and products and is a unique opportunity to be part of advancing analytics for one of the nation’s leading Healthcare organizations where Big Data will be used as a platform to build solutions.

This is a flex-hybrid role which will require you to be onsite at least once a month. Please note that there are no reimbursements for travel to "home office" location. 

Each employee must complete a FlexWork Agreement with their manager which will outline arrangement parameters and aids both parties in fully understanding expectations. Arrangements are regularly evaluated, and are subject to termination.  

Salary offers are determined based on various factors including, but not limited to, qualifications, experience, and equity. The full salary range for this position is $95,900 - $222,100 annually.  The budgeted salary or hourly range that the University reasonably expects to pay for this position is approximately between the minimum and midpoint. 

Job Qualifications

  • Minimum five years of software development experience.
  • 2+ years experience on the data or backend systems side of the software development.
  • Strong industry experience in programming languages such as Python with the ability to pick up new languages and technologies quickly.
  • Experience with Orchestration tools like Airflow is required.
  • Strong experience with Relational databases like SQL Server or Oracle is required.
  • Strong background in Data warehousing and ETL principles, architecture, and its implementation in large environments.
  • Experience working with Machine Learning Systems like Databricks, Feature Stores, MLOps is preferred.
  • Working knowledge on leading cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, GCP; Microsoft Azure experience is preferred.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or related field from an accredited college or university
  • Master’s Degree preferred.

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.