WHY UT SOUTHWESTERN?
With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. As a world-renowned medical and research center, we strive to provide the best possible care, resources, and benefits for our valued employees. Ranked as the number 1 hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth according to U.S. News & World Report, we invest in you with opportunities for career growth and development to align with your future goals. Our highly competitive benefits package offers healthcare, PTO and paid holidays, on-site childcare, wage, merit increases and so much more. We invite you to be a part of the UT Southwestern team where you'll discover a culture of teamwork, professionalism, and a rewarding career!
JOB SUMMARY
Works with relatively low supervision to provide data acquisition, management and report design/generation to users of data.
Responsible for gathering data reporting and analysis specifications from departmental leadership, and relevant institutional business users.
Develops, delivers, and maintains reporting solutions utilizing business intelligence tools, relational database sources, scripting, and automation software by target deadlines and with minimal downtime. Testing of reporting solutions is also required as is the documentation of testing methodology and results in order to ensure data accuracy and integrity.
Solutions may developed for all domains of Department operations including clinical productivity, finances, and administration.
This position also requires working closely with other data and database analysts by providing recommendations on how existing data sources can be improved or expanded to ease the development of reporting solutions. In addition, the responsibility to identify and evaluate new data sources with the potential to expand the Department's ability to monitor and assess operations and productivity contributes to the Department's objective to improve data-related workflows and process improvements.
Preferred Skills:
- Robust understanding of relational database concepts
- Ability to write database queries (Transact-SQL preferred)
- Familiarity with business intelligence tools such as PowerBI
- Ability and motivation to develop expertise of large data warehouse data models
- Interest in expanding technical skillset to include new programming languages such as DAX or python
BENEFITS
UT Southwestern is proud to offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees. Our benefits are designed to support your overall wellbeing, and include:
- PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
- 100% coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay
- Paid Time Off, available day one
- Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
- Paid Parental Leave Benefit
- Wellness programs
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer
- Learn more about these and other UTSW employee benefits!
EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION
Required
- Education
Bachelor's Degree in Science, Information Management, Healthcare Information, Statistics, Business or closely related field.
- Experience
5 years of Data management/analyst experience
Preferred
- Experience
Work in a clinical or healthcare related field
Familiarity with scientific terms (in biology, biochemistry, chemistry, etc.)
JOB DUTIES
- Primary data steward responsible for all department databases, source systems and data structures.
- Responsible for the abstraction of data, analysis of data, and subsequent interpretation of data/ recommendations for consideration by departmental leadership, technical counterparts, and all relevant institutional business users.
- Ensure accuracy of data and reporting across department functions, mitigating against any audit/data risk by setting processes to validate data an on ongoing basis.
- Manages departmental projects and serves as primary departmental contact for all reporting/data mining tasks. Defines and maintains project plan and schedules. Monitors compliance with definitions of project scope, timelines, and deliverables. Provides regular project status reports to departmental leadership.
- Assists Department Data Analysts of lower status with data needs and project coordination.
- Serves as technical lead and subject matter expert (SME) for all source data systems relevant to department operations. Shares information with department management team on a recurring or as needed basis.
- Serves as lead technical contact for relevant data points and sources systems for institutional projects/platforms (i.e. EDW, Organizational Dashboards, etc.)
- Coordinates the data preparation and submission of documents to federal agencies, state agencies, private research funding agencies and other organizations as required by law and contractual vehicle.
- Responsible for data mapping/data architecture across department data fields and relevant source systems, utilizing process maps and Business Intelligence architecture tools.
- Leads development of education/training tools that educate team members and institutional partners on generation and/or interpretation of data, statistical analysis and application to decision making to improve organization efficiency and outcomes.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
SECURITY AND EEO STATEMENT
Security
This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code 51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information.
EEO Statement
UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status.
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement
Mar 24, 2025