Manager, Translational Informatics Platform Architecture

The Manager, Translational Informatics Platform Architecture (H) leads and oversees all software engineering functions at the University of Miami’s Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center (SCCC), an NCI-designated cancer center. This role is responsible for managing software engineering teams across the full lifecycle of the cancer center’s clinical data platform - spanning cloud infrastructure architecture, DevSecOps pipeline engineering, backend software systems, and security-compliance programs for systems handling protected health information (PHI) in support of cancer research and patient care.

The Manager, Translational Informatics Platform Architecture (H) provides both strategic technical direction and day-to-day engineering leadership, ensuring all software systems satisfy HIPAA/HITECH regulatory requirements while advancing the center’s clinical research and data platform capabilities. The role requires deep, integrated expertise across cloud infrastructure, software architecture, regulated healthcare compliance, and security engineering - all applied simultaneously within a single, complex clinical data environment.

CORE JOB FUNCTIONS

• Leads, manages, and develops a multidisciplinary team of software engineers, DevSecOps engineers, cloud infrastructure engineers, and platform engineers supporting software development initiatives at SCCC.
• Establishes hiring standards, conducts performance evaluations, develops career pathways, and provides technical mentorship to engineering staff.
• Collaborates with clinical leadership, research directors, principal investigators, compliance stakeholders, and institutional IT partners to translate clinical research requirements into technical roadmaps and engineering solutions.
• Oversees the design, provisioning, implementation, and lifecycle management of Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure, including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Key Vault, Azure Monitor, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Container Registry, Azure Immutable Blob Storage, and associated managed identity configurations.
• Establishes and maintains Infrastructure-as-Code standards, environment promotion workflows, cloud platform governance, and automated drift detection processes supporting enterprise engineering operations.
• Oversees production AKS environments, networking architecture, GitOps strategies, security controls, workload orchestration, and cloud-based services to ensure reliable, scalable, and secure operation of technology platforms.

• Leads the development, governance, and continuous improvement of DevSecOps strategies, CI/CD pipelines, software deployment processes, release automation, software supply chain security, and integrated security controls. Establishes and enforces software engineering standards related to code quality, testing, automation, configuration management, software delivery practices, and engineering governance.

• Directs implementation of technical safeguards and security controls supporting systems containing protected health information (PHI), ensuring compliance with HIPAA, HITECH, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Conducts and oversees security risk assessments, audit readiness activities, access controls, attribute-based RBAC frameworks, audit logging architectures, credential management practices, and security monitoring processes.
• Provides strategic leadership for software architecture, platform engineering, cloud architecture, infrastructure design, observability standards, and technology selection activities supporting clinical and research operations.
• Oversees the development, integration, deployment, and maintenance of software applications, APIs, microservices, healthcare system integrations, data pipelines, and enterprise data platforms.
• Develops and promotes interoperability, data integration, multi-tenancy architecture, platform governance, and information-sharing strategies supporting the secure exchange and use of clinical and research data.
• Evaluates emerging technologies, engineering methodologies, cloud services, security solutions, and platform capabilities to identify opportunities for innovation, operational improvement, DevSecOps maturity, and long-term platform sustainability.
• Establishes and continuously assesses the effectiveness of the internal controls within the unit and compliance with university policies and procedures. Ensures employees are trained on controls within the function and on university policy and procedures.

This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.

Master’s degree in relevant field required

Experience: Minimum 7 years of relevant experience required

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Operational Management: Optimizes day-to-day operations and processes for efficiency and effectiveness.
• Organizational Development: Ability to implement strategies to improve organizational effectiveness, engagement, and manage change.
• Financial Oversight: Knowledge of financial operations and management.
• Team Leadership: Ability to create and maintain a cohesive and productive team environment, build positive working relationships and work collaboratively with others.
• Technical Proficiency: Skilled in using office software, technology, and relevant computer applications.
• Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills to convey ideas clearly and persuasively.

The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.

UHealth-University of Miami Health System, South Florida’s only university-based health system, provides leading-edge patient care powered by the ground breaking research and medical education at the Miller School of Medicine. As an academic medical center, we are proud to serve South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub-specialties, and have more than one million patient encounters each year. Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care. We’re the challenge you’ve been looking for.

The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.

Job Status: Full time

Employee Type: Staff