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Clinical Informatics Specialists sit at the intersection of healthcare and IT, making them strong H-1B visa candidates under USCIS specialty occupation rules. Most roles require a bachelor's degree or higher in health informatics, computer science, or a related field. Large hospital systems, health tech firms, and integrated delivery networks regularly sponsor H-1B visa petitions for this role.
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Drive innovation at the intersection of healthcare, analytics, automation, and artificial intelligence.
The Clinical Informatics Specialist IV plays a critical role in advancing UCLA Health's analytics and technology strategy by designing and delivering intelligent, workflow-driven solutions that transform clinical and operational processes. This position combines advanced expertise in data analytics, data modeling, and solution architecture with experience leveraging automation, AI-powered technologies, and agent-based systems to improve organizational performance and decision-making.
In this role, you will partner with clinical, operational, business intelligence, and enterprise analytics teams to translate complex business challenges into scalable, data-driven solutions. You will design, develop, and optimize modern analytics capabilities that leverage enterprise data platforms, automation frameworks, large language models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and enterprise technologies such as Salesforce to create meaningful operational efficiencies and actionable insights.
This is an exciting opportunity for a technically skilled and strategically minded professional who enjoys solving complex problems, driving innovation, and delivering high-impact solutions that enhance healthcare delivery and business operations.
What You'll Do
- Design and implement intelligent, workflow-driven solutions that improve clinical, operational, and business processes across the organization.
- Translate complex workflows and business requirements into scalable analytics, automation, and AI-enabled solutions.
- Develop and optimize data models, SQL-based analytics solutions, and scalable data assets that support reporting, operational intelligence, and decision-making.
- Build and operationalize automation capabilities, agent-based systems, and AI-powered solutions that enhance efficiency, productivity, and insight generation.
- Leverage modern analytics platforms, enterprise data ecosystems, and emerging technologies, including large language models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), to solve business challenges.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to identify opportunities for innovation and deliver solutions aligned with organizational goals and priorities.
- Partner closely with business intelligence, enterprise analytics, clinical, and operational teams to define solution strategies and drive successful implementation.
- Support the integration of enterprise technologies, including Salesforce and other business platforms, to improve workflow efficiency and data accessibility.
- Establish and promote best practices for solution design, data governance, security, scalability, and operational support.
- Lead end-to-end solution delivery, including requirements gathering, design, development, testing, deployment, documentation, and ongoing optimization.
- Monitor and evaluate solution performance, recommending enhancements that maximize business value and user adoption.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to stakeholders by providing technical expertise, strategic guidance, and innovative approaches to complex operational and analytical challenges.
Why UCLA Health?
At UCLA Health, you'll help shape the future of healthcare by leveraging advanced analytics, automation, and AI technologies to improve patient care, operational excellence, and business outcomes. Working alongside clinical, operational, and technology leaders, you'll have the opportunity to build innovative solutions that make a meaningful impact across one of the nation's most respected academic health systems.
This flexible hybrid role allows for a blend of remote and on-site work, requiring presence on-site at least 5% of the time or as needed based on operational requirements. Please note, travel to the “home office” location is not reimbursed. Each employee will complete a FlexWork Agreement with their manager to outline expectations and ensure mutual understanding. These arrangements are periodically reviewed and may be adjusted or terminated as necessary.
Salary offers are based on a variety of factors including qualifications, experience, and internal equity. The full salary range for this position is $109,900 - $243,900 annually. The University anticipates offering a salary below $170,000 annually.
Pay range: $110977.20 - $246216.96 a year
Qualifications
Education & Experience
- Master’s in Data Science or related field
- 4+ years of experience in a healthcare-related organization
- Prior work in healthcare informatics
Technical & Platform Skills
- SQL proficiency, including 2+ years of demonstrated expertise/strong programming skills in MS SQL Server or Oracle platforms
- Coding experience in common languages like Python
- Salesforce experience or willingness to become Agentforce certified within 3 months
- Apex class experience preferred
- Epic Clarity Data Model certification in one or more modules (EpicCare Inpatient, Hospital Billing, Prelude ADT, Radiant, Willow, Optime) preferred, preferably in employee’s area of expertise
- Epic build experience in a live environment strongly preferred
AI & Advanced Analytics
- Experience with RAG systems, agentic technology, and large language models (LLMs)
- Expertise in Prompt and Context Engineering
- Advanced data analytics and modeling skills
Data Strategy & Business Intelligence
- Extensive knowledge of data warehouse concepts, data structures, and reporting
- Understanding of the usage and application of good Data Ops including metadata collection, iterative design and improvement, agile methodology, and more
- Superlative analytical, problem-solving, and metadata skills
- Superlative ability to translate business questions and requirements into reports, views, and BI query objects
Healthcare Domain Knowledge
- Ability to understand and translate healthcare workflows
- Extensive knowledge of best practices regarding reporting, workflows, policies, procedures, systems, and culture in the healthcare environment
Project Management & Execution
- Experience in gathering, documenting, prioritizing, and tracking requirements
- Ability to identify, document, resolve, and/or escalate issues and maintain a complete issues log
- Ability to accurately and precisely estimate development time
- Ability to manage multiple and competing tasks while maintaining timelines
- Must recognize and evaluate problems, and refer to the appropriate channels for action
General (Soft Skills)
Communication & Collaboration
- Effective written & verbal communication
- Ability to deliver and communicate analytics in a healthcare setting
- Strong ability to communicate with stakeholders at all levels to understand requirements, and foster good business relationships
- High functioning team skills, including active listening and rapport building
- Ability to work effectively as a team player with people of all backgrounds and at all levels
- Ability to mentor other team members, and provide support for teammates learning about reporting or the business needs
Leadership & Professional Conduct
- Strong organizational skills and customer service orientation
- Customer focus / Ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence
- Outcomes/Results-oriented
- Ability to work independently with general direction
- Ability to establish and achieve goals
- Ability to establish and maintain a spirit of cooperation and respect, flourish in an unstructured environment, and always engage in professional and ethical conduct
- Adaptable / Ability to shift focus and manage ambiguity / Demonstrated ability to manage conflicting priorities
- Ability to remain calm in difficult and stressful situations
Description
Drive innovation at the intersection of healthcare, analytics, automation, and artificial intelligence.
The Clinical Informatics Specialist IV plays a critical role in advancing UCLA Health's analytics and technology strategy by designing and delivering intelligent, workflow-driven solutions that transform clinical and operational processes. This position combines advanced expertise in data analytics, data modeling, and solution architecture with experience leveraging automation, AI-powered technologies, and agent-based systems to improve organizational performance and decision-making.
In this role, you will partner with clinical, operational, business intelligence, and enterprise analytics teams to translate complex business challenges into scalable, data-driven solutions. You will design, develop, and optimize modern analytics capabilities that leverage enterprise data platforms, automation frameworks, large language models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and enterprise technologies such as Salesforce to create meaningful operational efficiencies and actionable insights.
This is an exciting opportunity for a technically skilled and strategically minded professional who enjoys solving complex problems, driving innovation, and delivering high-impact solutions that enhance healthcare delivery and business operations.
What You'll Do
- Design and implement intelligent, workflow-driven solutions that improve clinical, operational, and business processes across the organization.
- Translate complex workflows and business requirements into scalable analytics, automation, and AI-enabled solutions.
- Develop and optimize data models, SQL-based analytics solutions, and scalable data assets that support reporting, operational intelligence, and decision-making.
- Build and operationalize automation capabilities, agent-based systems, and AI-powered solutions that enhance efficiency, productivity, and insight generation.
- Leverage modern analytics platforms, enterprise data ecosystems, and emerging technologies, including large language models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), to solve business challenges.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to identify opportunities for innovation and deliver solutions aligned with organizational goals and priorities.
- Partner closely with business intelligence, enterprise analytics, clinical, and operational teams to define solution strategies and drive successful implementation.
- Support the integration of enterprise technologies, including Salesforce and other business platforms, to improve workflow efficiency and data accessibility.
- Establish and promote best practices for solution design, data governance, security, scalability, and operational support.
- Lead end-to-end solution delivery, including requirements gathering, design, development, testing, deployment, documentation, and ongoing optimization.
- Monitor and evaluate solution performance, recommending enhancements that maximize business value and user adoption.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to stakeholders by providing technical expertise, strategic guidance, and innovative approaches to complex operational and analytical challenges.
Why UCLA Health?
At UCLA Health, you'll help shape the future of healthcare by leveraging advanced analytics, automation, and AI technologies to improve patient care, operational excellence, and business outcomes. Working alongside clinical, operational, and technology leaders, you'll have the opportunity to build innovative solutions that make a meaningful impact across one of the nation's most respected academic health systems.
This flexible hybrid role allows for a blend of remote and on-site work, requiring presence on-site at least 5% of the time or as needed based on operational requirements. Please note, travel to the “home office” location is not reimbursed. Each employee will complete a FlexWork Agreement with their manager to outline expectations and ensure mutual understanding. These arrangements are periodically reviewed and may be adjusted or terminated as necessary.
Salary offers are based on a variety of factors including qualifications, experience, and internal equity. The full salary range for this position is $109,900 - $243,900 annually. The University anticipates offering a salary below $170,000 annually.
Pay range: $110977.20 - $246216.96 a year
Qualifications
Education & Experience
- Master’s in Data Science or related field
- 4+ years of experience in a healthcare-related organization
- Prior work in healthcare informatics
Technical & Platform Skills
- SQL proficiency, including 2+ years of demonstrated expertise/strong programming skills in MS SQL Server or Oracle platforms
- Coding experience in common languages like Python
- Salesforce experience or willingness to become Agentforce certified within 3 months
- Apex class experience preferred
- Epic Clarity Data Model certification in one or more modules (EpicCare Inpatient, Hospital Billing, Prelude ADT, Radiant, Willow, Optime) preferred, preferably in employee’s area of expertise
- Epic build experience in a live environment strongly preferred
AI & Advanced Analytics
- Experience with RAG systems, agentic technology, and large language models (LLMs)
- Expertise in Prompt and Context Engineering
- Advanced data analytics and modeling skills
Data Strategy & Business Intelligence
- Extensive knowledge of data warehouse concepts, data structures, and reporting
- Understanding of the usage and application of good Data Ops including metadata collection, iterative design and improvement, agile methodology, and more
- Superlative analytical, problem-solving, and metadata skills
- Superlative ability to translate business questions and requirements into reports, views, and BI query objects
Healthcare Domain Knowledge
- Ability to understand and translate healthcare workflows
- Extensive knowledge of best practices regarding reporting, workflows, policies, procedures, systems, and culture in the healthcare environment
Project Management & Execution
- Experience in gathering, documenting, prioritizing, and tracking requirements
- Ability to identify, document, resolve, and/or escalate issues and maintain a complete issues log
- Ability to accurately and precisely estimate development time
- Ability to manage multiple and competing tasks while maintaining timelines
- Must recognize and evaluate problems, and refer to the appropriate channels for action
General (Soft Skills)
Communication & Collaboration
- Effective written & verbal communication
- Ability to deliver and communicate analytics in a healthcare setting
- Strong ability to communicate with stakeholders at all levels to understand requirements, and foster good business relationships
- High functioning team skills, including active listening and rapport building
- Ability to work effectively as a team player with people of all backgrounds and at all levels
- Ability to mentor other team members, and provide support for teammates learning about reporting or the business needs
Leadership & Professional Conduct
- Strong organizational skills and customer service orientation
- Customer focus / Ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence
- Outcomes/Results-oriented
- Ability to work independently with general direction
- Ability to establish and achieve goals
- Ability to establish and maintain a spirit of cooperation and respect, flourish in an unstructured environment, and always engage in professional and ethical conduct
- Adaptable / Ability to shift focus and manage ambiguity / Demonstrated ability to manage conflicting priorities
- Ability to remain calm in difficult and stressful situations
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Clinical Informatics Specialist
Map your degree to SOC codes
Clinical Informatics Specialist roles typically file under SOC 15-1299 or 29-9000 series codes. Confirm your degree field directly supports the SOC code your employer plans to use, because a mismatch is a common source of specialty occupation RFEs.
Search LCA filings by job title
Use the OFLC Wage Search to filter Labor Condition Application filings specifically for 'clinical informatics' job titles. This shows you which hospital systems and health IT vendors have active H-1B sponsorship history before you apply.
Target employers enrolled in E-Verify
STEM-adjacent health informatics roles sometimes qualify for cap-exempt filing through certain nonprofit hospitals or university health systems. Confirm whether a prospective employer holds cap-exempt status before negotiating your start date and offer timeline.
Build a credential portfolio for RFE defense
Gather your degree transcripts, any health informatics certifications (RHIA, CPHIMS, or equivalent), and written evidence that your role requires specialized theoretical knowledge. Employers filing in this occupation face higher RFE rates when job duties appear general.
Use Migrate Mate to find verified sponsors
Filter for Clinical Informatics Specialist openings on Migrate Mate, which surfaces employers with confirmed DOL LCA filing history for this role so you're not guessing about a company's H-1B sponsorship capacity before you apply.
Negotiate offer timing around the cap calendar
H-1B cap registrations open in March for an October 1 start date. If you receive an offer in late fall or winter, ask your employer whether premium processing or a cap-exempt entity filing is available to avoid waiting through the next lottery cycle.
H-1B Visa Clinical Informatics Specialist: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Clinical Informatics Specialist role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, if the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific field such as health informatics, computer science, biomedical informatics, or nursing informatics. USCIS evaluates the job duties, not just the title. Roles that accept any degree or have no specific field requirement are more vulnerable to specialty occupation challenges, so the job description language your employer uses in the LCA and I-129 matters.
Which employers sponsor H-1B visas for Clinical Informatics Specialists?
Large hospital networks, academic medical centers, integrated delivery organizations, and health IT vendors are the most active sponsors for this role. You can verify which specific employers have filed LCAs for clinical informatics positions by searching the OFLC Wage Search database. Migrate Mate filters these employers directly so you can search roles with confirmed sponsorship history.
Can a Clinical Informatics Specialist role qualify for cap-exempt H-1B filing?
It depends on the employer, not the role. Nonprofit hospitals affiliated with universities, federally funded research institutions, and certain government research entities can file H-1B petitions outside the annual cap. If a prospective employer holds cap-exempt status, you can start on a date other than October 1 and skip the lottery entirely. Confirm cap-exempt status directly with the employer's HR or immigration counsel before accepting an offer.
What happens to my H-1B status if my employer changes my job duties significantly?
A material change in job duties, location, or worksite may require a new or amended I-129 petition filed with USCIS before the change takes effect. Clinical informatics roles that shift from system implementation to direct patient data governance, for example, can trigger an amendment requirement. Failing to file an amendment when one is required puts your status at risk, so notify your employer's immigration team whenever your responsibilities change substantially.
How does the prevailing wage requirement apply to Clinical Informatics Specialist positions?
Your employer must certify on the LCA that it will pay you at or above the prevailing wage for the SOC code and geographic area covering your worksite. The DOL determines prevailing wages by wage level, and clinical informatics roles in major metro health systems often fall at Level II or III. You can verify the applicable prevailing wage for your location and SOC code using the OFLC Wage Search before evaluating any offer.