Senior Application Analyst and Developer, Epic Inpatient

HealthPartners is hiring a Senior Application Analyst and Developer, Epic Inpatient. This position supports hospital applications and rotates in the on-call schedule. Epic certification is an expectation of the role. The candidate will have Epic experience and deep knowledge in the inpatient space, troubleshooting skills, excellent time management, and ability to conduct themselves in a professional manner with clinicians and peers. The team supports a variety of workflows in the hospital setting and supports the largest number of users in the Epic space.

Applications supported by the team: ClinDoc, Orders, ASAP (ED), Stork, Rover, Bugsy (Infection Control), Care Management, Long Term Care, and Unified Communications.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Assesses, designs, builds, and deploys software and new application functionality.

• Performs unit testing and directs and partners in system and end-user test planning and testing.

• Maintains testing environment and data requirements within the test environment.

• Analyzes functional and technical requirements for changes or enhancements and prepares system designs and specifications

• Diagnoses system failures, corrects issues, and assess the issue in order to recommend actions to prevent re-occurrence of the problem.

• Defines technical specifications based on business requirements; consults with Business Partners regarding technical possibilities and limitations.

• Assists IS&T's Business Partners with clarifying and prioritizing service requests.

• Identifies the need for and recommends standard processes, procedures and best practices.

• Provides training, professional support and mentoring to Application Developers and other Analysts.

• Supports 3rd party application software; interacts with vendors regarding problems, upgrade schedules, and software installations.

• Provides requested documentation and interviews with auditors and third party requestors.

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

• Experience utilizing two or more programming languages

• Strong experience with Microsoft Office tools

• Good understanding of system infrastructure and ability to understand integration of a proposed change into the current infrastructure

• Proven ability to gather requirements and deliver output on those requirements

• Excellent communication skills in technical and non-technical vernacular

• Excellent technical writing abilities and documenting

• Project leadership experience on midsized projects

• Expertise with more than one system development methodology

• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills

• Able to be on-call 24X7 in areas of expertise

IDEAL CANDIDATE

Education: BS or equivalent work experience; recent work in IT or Healthcare; experience with Inpatient Value Based Care (VBC) work

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience/training

• 6+ years IT analysis and technical design experience

• 3+ years project management experience

• 3+ years experience coding, testing, and implementing program changes

• Excellent communication and facilitation skills

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Epic support experience is preferred or a super user for an electronic medical record.
• 3 years healthcare/ health plan experience