Manager-Information Services

About the job

Manager-Information Services

Indiana University Health is unlike any other healthcare system and we're looking for team members who share the things that matter most to us. People who are inspired by challenging and meaningful work for the good of every patient. People motivated to do their best every day. People who are always ready to apply themselves. As one of Indiana's largest employers, our vision is to lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation and education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Summary

Leads the Data Acquisitions engineering team responsible for the reliable, scalable intake and preservation of enterprise data across clinical, operational, research, and partner sources. Oversee software engineering delivery for high-volume, business-critical data pipelines using Azure Databricks and related Azure services, configuration-driven development, automated testing, CI/CD, and Agile practices. Ensures capabilities align with enterprise architecture, governance, security, and operational requirements and provide the authoritative data-source foundation for the enterprise data platform and clinical research initiatives. Builds a highly technical team, establishes measurable service and delivery outcomes, and ensures human and financial resources are effectively deployed. This position is full-time, hybrid/onsite and must live and work in Central Indiana.

RESPONSIBILITIES**:**

• Oversees the productivity of assigned IS team and resources.
• Ensures that project outcomes conform to business and clinical needs.
• Demonstrates consistency & reliability in execution.
• Builds a functional team and ensures that human and financial resources are effectively deployed.
• Establishes metrics and tracks improvements.
• Manages team members and drives the ownership mindset necessary to achieve departmental plans and direction.
• Reviews and evaluates work of staff and prepares performance reports.
• Provides technical leadership for a software development team designing, building, testing, deploying, and supporting enterprise-scale data acquisition pipelines and reusable ingestion capabilities.
• Leads acquisition and continuity planning for complex clinical, operational, research, partner, and multimodal data sources, including the transition from Cerner to Epic and support for reusable enterprise and Hoosier BRIDGE data products.
• Owns SLA-driven delivery and production operations for business-critical data acquisition at TB/PB scale and more than 5,000–10,000 daily executions, including observability, incident response, recovery, performance, capacity, and cost management.
• Applies enterprise architecture and software engineering practices across Azure Databricks and related Azure services, including configuration-driven and metadata-driven development, infrastructure as code, source control, automated testing, CI/CD, environment promotion, security, governance, and platform migration.
• Maintains working knowledge of enterprise and healthcare data integration patterns and exchange standards, including batch, streaming, files, APIs, HL7, FHIR, and CCDA, and ensures source provenance, reconciliation, lineage, and continuity are built into delivery.

Candidate qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience.
• Requires 5-7 years of relevant experience in IS and/or management role.
• Requires a strong technical background in data engineering and software delivery, with demonstrated understanding of Azure Databricks, SQL and Python-based development, cloud data platforms, configuration-driven solutions, source control, automated testing, CI/CD, and Agile delivery workflows.
• Requires a demonstrated fundamental understanding of project accounting and financial management.
• Requires an understanding of general Information Management roles, responsibilities, and best practices.
• Relevant coursework or certifications are preferred in Azure Databricks, Azure data engineering or architecture, Agile delivery, DevOps/CI/CD, ITIL, project management, or continuous improvement. Demonstrated hands-on leadership of comparable technical teams may be considered in place of certifications.
• Strong working skills with MS Office tools such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, etc. is preferred.
• Preferred experience with contractor and vendor management.
• Preferred experience acquiring, managing, and securely delivering large-scale multimodal data, including genomics, medical imaging, unstructured text, and wearable or device-generated data, to support distributed, edge, and clinical research use cases.

Key Relationships

• Reports to: Director-Information Services

Indiana University Health is unlike any other healthcare system, and we are looking for team members who share the things that matter most to us. IU Health leaders play a crucial role in advancing the mission of our organization and inspiring teams to make a meaningful difference in the lives of patients. As one of Indiana’s largest employers and the most comprehensive medical system in the state, our vision is *to lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation, and education, and make Indiana one *of the healthiest states.

IU Health is the largest health system in Indiana with nearly 40,000 team members, 15 hospitals and $8.64 billion in operating revenue. The system’s programs in cancer, cardiovascular, neuroscience, orthopedics, pediatrics, and transplants have received national recognition for quality patient care. IU Health, in partnership with the Indiana University School of Medicine, bring together highly skilled physicians, researchers, and educators into close collaboration to provide world-class care for children and adults and improve the health of patients and communities across Indiana.**

Indiana University Health is dedicated to a fair hiring process and is committed to equal opportunity and nondiscrimination for all individuals, regardless of age, color, disability, ethnicity, marital status, national origin, race, religion, gender identity, expression, sexual orientation, or veteran status.**

About Us

• Indiana University Health has nearly 40,000 team members, including more than 3,600 physicians and 1,200 advanced practice providers, and we’re home to the largest nursing network in Indiana with more than 9,000 nursing team members at over 800 sites of care.

• IU Health is ranked No. 1 in Indiana by U.S. News & World Report, Riley Children's Health is ranked among the top children's hospitals in the country by U.S. News & World Report.

• A unique partnership with the Indiana University School of Medicine – one of the nation’s largest medical schools – gives patients access to groundbreaking research and innovative treatments, and it offers team members access to the latest science and the very best training – advancing healthcare for all.

With 15 hospitals, including seven with Magnet designation and eight with Pathways to Excellence designation, our team members are leading the way through excellence.

• At Indiana University Health, your personal and professional growth is a top priority. You will have access to many diverse opportunities to learn and develop in meaningful ways that matter most to you, such as advanced clinical training, leadership development, promotion opportunities and cross training development.

• Indiana University Health is invested in the lives of Hoosiers, leading the transformation of healthcare to make Indiana one of the nation’s healthiest states.

Indiana University Health is Indiana’s most comprehensive health system, with 15 hospitals and nearly 40,000 team members serving Hoosiers across the state. We’re looking for team members who are inspired by challenging and meaningful work for the good of every patient. People who are compassionate and serve with a purpose. People who aspire to excellence every day.

Additional Information

-** Job Identification: 428543 - Job Category: Information Systems - Posting Date: 2026-10-15 - Job Schedule: Full time - Locations: **950 N Meridian St, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, US ()