Director IT

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Details

Open Date
08/15/2025

Requisition Number
PRN42843B

Job Title
Director IT

Working Title
Director, Technical Projects

Job Grade
I

FLSA Code
Executive

Patient Sensitive Job Code?
No

Standard Hours per Week
40

Full Time or Part Time?
Full Time

Shift
Day

Work Schedule Summary

8am-5pm / Monday - Friday (hybrid: must work 3 days in the office per week)

VP Area
President

Department
00639 - VP for Research

Location
Campus

City
Salt Lake City, UT

Type of Recruitment
External Posting

Pay Rate Range
$128,350 - $180,017

Close Date
10/14/2025

Priority Review Date (Note - Posting may close at any time)

Job Summary

The Director of Technical Projects will coordinate and streamline the development of Project Galene's biorepository-integrated cloud health data platform. This platform will integrate biorepository specimens with clinical data from multiple sources (EDW, OpenSpecimen, REDCap, PACS) to create one of the nation's leading AI-enabled database and biobanks, serving both academic researchers and pharmaceutical partners.

Responsibilities

Roles and Responsibilities:
Project Management (45%)

• Coordinate technical requirements across stakeholders including U of U Health IT, ARUP IT, Compliance, biorepositories, and research teams
• Assist with development processes including sprint planning, backlog management, and release coordination
• Support HITRUST certification process and audit preparations
• Develop and maintain project plans, Gantt charts, technical documentation, and architecture decision records
• Interface with technical stakeholders at ARUP and University of Utah
• Track deliverables from PTP, Vanta, Workstreet consultants
• Monitor project budgets and timelines
• Coordinate activities amongst platform development team members Technical Operations (40%)

Technical Operations (40%)

• Process and audit user access controls for PHI and research data, review new user access requests
• Implement platform configurations for multimodal healthcare data
• Support architecture reviews and technical designs from consulting partners
• Execute technical standards for data ingestion, processing, and access patterns
• Monitor critical security incidents and implement prescribed remediation strategies
• Perform platform optimization tasks through hands-on AWS management
• Monitor automated monitoring and alerting systems
• Hands-on troubleshooting of technical issues
• Support 24/7 platform availability for clinical and research workloads

Stakeholder Coordination (15%)

• Facilitate technical design sessions with University IT and ARUP teams
• Coordinate with compliance teams on security reviews and audit requirements
• Support data governance discussions with technical input

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in related computer science, Business Administration, or related area, or equivalency (one year of education can be substituted for two years of related work experience); eight years of progressively more responsible management experience; and demonstrated leadership, human relations and effective communications skills required.

Applicants must demonstrate the potential ability to perform the essential functions of the job as outlined in the position description.

Preferences

Preferred Experience:

• 4-6 years managing technical projects in healthcare settings, with at least 2 years focused on clinical data platforms
• Minimum 2 successful implementations of cloud-hosted healthcare data platforms
• Proven track record delivering HIPAA-compliant cloud data solutions in academic medical centers or health systems
• Hands-on experience with healthcare data warehouses, particularly Oracle-based EDW implementations
• Direct experience working with technical service vendors and distributed development teams
• Platform operations experience with high availability requirements

Preferred Technical Skills

• Strong AWS proficiency: Core services, security, and cost management
• Knowledge of healthcare data standards: HL7 FHIR, DICOM, genomic formats
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code (Terraform/CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines
• Programming skills in Python and SQL for data access and monitoring
• Understanding of security best practices and threat detection
• Familiarity with clinical research systems (REDCap, OpenSpecimen) and biorepository workflows
• Knowledge of HIPAA/HITRUST compliance requirements
• Ability to review code, evaluate technical proposals, and support technical decisions

Preferred Domain Knowledge

• Understanding of HIPAA/HITRUST compliance and healthcare cybersecurity
• Knowledge of clinical research workflows and IRB/regulatory requirements
• Experience with multimodal data types (genomics + imaging + clinical)
• Familiarity with precision medicine initiatives and research platforms
• Understanding of pharmaceutical industry data requirements
• Knowledge of clinical data types, research workflows, and PHI handling procedures
• Understanding of modern data platform concepts (data lakes, microservices, API management)

Preferred Education & Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field
• Active AWS certification preferred (Solutions Architect or Security)
• HITRUST knowledge beneficial
• PMP or equivalent project management certification preferred
• Biobanking or translational research platform experience a plus
• Previous work on commercial/academic partnerships valued

Type
Benefited Staff

Special Instructions Summary

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