Inter Enterprise Application Analyst - (Epic Applications)

Children's Health is a pediatric healthcare organization dedicated to improving children's health and patient and family experiences. The Inter Enterprise Application Analyst supports Epic enterprise applications through requirements analysis, system design, implementation, testing, production support, troubleshooting, project management, documentation, and training.

Responsibilities

Implementation: Responsibility for evaluating project requests associated with field of expertise and/or systems supported, conducting current state assessments, requirements gathering and definition, future state design and application build activities. Responsible for leading implementation teams in planning, design, development, testing (unit, application and integrated), and deployment of projects, as well as contributing to development of associated training curriculum/program, post implementation documentation and production support services. Ensure systems design supports corporate policies and federal legislation, where applicable. Work with customer departments to ensure solutions to complex business issues are an appropriate fit organization wide

Project Management: Prepare detailed project plans. Adheres to project schedules and timelines and completes projects on time and within budget. Identify and escalate issues to appropriate sponsor group, steering committee or other governing body to ensure successful implementation (on time, on budget and within scope). Responsible for facilitating change request process in relation to assigned projects. Prepare supporting documentation and present initial project requests and change requests to leadership and appropriate Change Advisory Subgroup(s). Provide weekly status updates on assigned projects. Work with IT and Materials Management counterparts to coordinate necessary support as needed

Maintenance, Support and Troubleshooting: Monitor, acknowledge and resolve heat tickets as assigned. Coordinate software and hardware repairs and version upgrades with customer departments and IT. Develop and maintain documentation for system procedures

Administrative: Attend related meetings, meetings with vendors, leadership team meetings and other meetings as needed

Production Support and Maintenance: On call support. Ensuring the integrity, integration and stability of production system. Formulating system scope and objectives to develop or modify complex system designs. Interface maintenance and support. Ensure coordination and documentation of hardware and software support and upgrades (servers, SQL, Citrix servers, VM Ware, desktop, network, telecommunication, SAN storage, internet application, remote users). Working closely with IT resources during upgrades and issue resolutions. Troubleshoot application, process and technical issues. Identify required resources and coordinate all efforts until issue is resolved. Complete documentation as needed. Coordinate and complete tasks during unplanned downtimes including system maintenance. Support training of IS staff and end-users as needed. Direct and coordinate communication, including notification to application teams and departmental super-users and key stakeholders of scheduled and unscheduled downtimes, vendor communication, and staff communication. Daily communication with key business process owners and departmental system support staff. Explaining technical and software concepts. Stay current with new application functionality and enhancements. Consult vendor support sites, discussion forums, and other sources to identify leading practices for problem resolution. Utilize vendor support site to log issues for assistance in resolution. Coordinate with leadership and customer departments to implement recommended solutions. Other duties as assigned

Project Assignments: Design, develop and manage an implementation approach through use of standard project management tools such as work plans, change management tools and issues tracking. Analyze user problems, determine and recommend optimum resolution based on system capabilities and user’s needs. Consult vendor support sites, discussion forums, and other sources to identify leading practices for implementation of systems. Consult with department on enhancements to ensure integration within the existing environment. Participate in design, build, test, troubleshooting and conversions. Assume project lead responsibilities. Plan, direct, develop, and coordinate the detailed process flow, design, implementation, performance management, and documentation of software and hardware implementation. Coordinate and consult with end user departments to determine activities and business functions of their departments. Determine requirements for system software, hardware, interfaces, and application integration. Develop project plans with system specifications based on defined requirements. Formulate and/or define project scope and system objectives through research and fact finding of internal, external and independent sources. Serve as technical leader to plan, coordinate, and develop a comprehensive implementation plan for specific aspects and components of project integration. Develop the project plan, including definition and assignment of project tasks to team members. Establish time lines and project milestones. Monitor progress to ensure compliance with project requirements. Serve as leader for technical, programming, support, vendor, and end user staff to determine system requirements, resource requirements, utilization, installation, implementation, and communication plans. Install and implement complex software, hardware, interfaces, and upgrades in a multiple user, networked and integrated computer environment. Coordinate and manage systems monitoring and performance enhancement activities to ensure optimal system performance and standards. Establish service level agreement metrics for supported systems based on identified objectives to meet quality standards. Provide application expertise during planning and design. Work closely with Manager to manage vendor resources. Coordinate department testing efforts and communicate on a regular basis with customer. Mentor other technicians and assisting other technicians with more complex and difficult assignments. Identify and document current and future state analysis. Coordinate and document hardware and software installations. Other duties as assigned

Preferred

Epic Prelude, Grand Central, Cadence, Referral, Welcome, and or RTE certification preferred

Epic Prelude certification

Grand Central certification

Cadence certification

Referral certification

Welcome certification

RTE certification

Benefits

Remote work arrangement

Employee portion of medical plan premiums are covered after 3 years.

4%-10% employee savings plan match based on tenure

Paid Parental Leave (up to 12 weeks)

Caregiver Leave

Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement

Company

Pediatric health care system and hospitals for children

Dallas, Texas, USA

https://www.childrens.com/

Founded in 1913

5001-10000 employees

Qualifications

At least 2 years work related experience Required

Project management experience; Direct experience related to same or similar systems installed at Children's Required

Four-year Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience Required

Enterprise App Analysts supporting software must demonstrate competency in software used in their role. All training and testing applicable to the role must be successfully completed and passed within 90 days of employment. Continuing education requirements must be completed and maintained for applications applicable to the role. Required

Epic Prelude, Grand Central, Cadence, Referral, Welcome, and or RTE certification preferred

Required skills

Represents the skills you have, click on the tags, Epic Prelude, Epic Grand Central, Epic Cadence, Epic Referral, Epic Welcome, Epic RTE, Epic Application Certification

Preferred skills

Project Management

Experience

2+ years