Qualifications
Responsibilities
Benefits
Job Posting Title:
Lead Clinical Data Informaticist----
Hiring Department:
Health and Well-being----
Position Open To:
All Applicants----
Weekly Scheduled Hours:
40----
FLSA Status:
Exempt from FLSA----
Earliest Start Date:
Nov 02, 2026----
Position Duration:
Expected to Continue----
Location:
UT MAIN CAMPUS----
Job Details:
General Notes** Before submitting your online job application, ensure thatALLRequired Materials have been uploaded. Once your job application has been submitted, you cannot make changes. ** Your application may not be considered if required documents are missing.
The Lead Clinical Data Informaticist is a senior technical role responsible for configuring, maintaining, and continuously improving Healthyhornselectronic health record (EHR) system. As the primary subject matter expert on EHR architecture and clinical workflow design, this position also plays a central coordination role across the operational committees that govern and optimize the EHR. The Lead partners closely with clinical leadership in University Health Services and the Counseling and Mental Health Center, along with the Data Informatics, HITS, and COMM teams, to ensure the EHR supports operational efficiency, enhances the experience of Healthyhorns staff and UT students, and maximizes data integrity.
EHR configuration and maintenance
This role designs, builds, and maintains the EHRtemplates, appointment types, scheduling workflows, and structured clinical content so they align with clinical workflows and documentation standards. This position troubleshoots configuration issues, prioritizes feature requests, escalates to operational committees or the vendor as needed, and documents resolutions. The Lead also maintains the integrity of development and production environments and coordinates with HITS and vendor staff to preserve functionality after system updates and upgrades.
Informatics leadership
The Lead Clinical Data Informaticist co-leads Healthyhorns EHR committees and fosters collaboration among leadership, clinical operational committees, the Data Informatics Team, and HITS. This position serves as the primary steward of the organizationdata governance policy and standards and represents informatics interests in cross-functional planning, such as system expansions, new clinical services, and policy updates. The Lead also maintains a structured change management process for EHR configuration changes and monitors industry trends to recommend innovative solutions.
Clinical workflow design and optimization
The Lead Clinical Data Informaticist collaborates with clinical and operational stakeholders to translate care delivery processes into EHR workflow design. This position identifies inefficiencies in existing workflows and proposes and implements evidence-based improvements. The Lead also develops and maintains documentation for system specifications, configuration decisions, and workflow standards.
Data quality and reporting support
This position collaborates with the Data Informatics Team to ensure EHR data structures support downstream analytics and research needs. This position monitors EHR data quality, identifies configuration issues that affect data and reporting, and supports data governance initiatives. The Lead also develops and maintains data dictionary documentation for key EHR data elements to support reporting accuracy and contributes to EHR-related policy and procedure documentation.
May be assigned other duties and projects as appropriate.
Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.
$91,000 + depending on qualifications
Important for applicants who are NOT current university employees or contingent workers:
You will be prompted to submit your resume the first time you apply, then you will be provided an option to upload a new Resume for subsequent applications. Any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) will be uploaded in the Application Questions section; you will be able to multi-select additional files. Before submitting your online job application, ensure that ALL Required Materials have been uploaded. Once your job application has been submitted, you cannot make changes.
Important for Current university employees and contingent workers:
As a current university employee or contingent worker, you MUST apply within Workday by searching for Find UT Jobs. If you are a current University employee, log-in to Workday, navigate to your Worker Profile, click the Career link in the left hand navigation menu and then update the sections in your Professional Profile before you apply. This information will be pulled in to your application. The application is one page and you will be prompted to upload your resume. In addition, you must respond to the application questions presented to upload any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) that were noted above.
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Employment Eligibility:
Regular staff who have been employed in their current position for the last six continuous months are eligible for openings being recruited for through University-Wide or Open Recruiting, to include both promotional opportunities and lateral transfers. Staff who are promotion/transfer eligible may apply for positions without supervisor approval.----
Retirement Plan Eligibility:
The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to the position being at least 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length.----
Background Checks:
A criminal history background check will be required for finalist(s) under consideration for this position.
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