Lead Application Analyst

Description

• The Epic Application Analyst will design, validate, and confirm new or changed functionality with the Epic Tapestry environment that meets department specifications.
• Lead team and product meetings for change management and decision making.
• Develop and modify Epic Tapestry system configurations that meet design requirements, and compliance/security standards.
• Provide complex qualitative and quantitative analysis on data and information collected as part of application requirements gathering.
• Analyze system requirements and determine system functional specifications.
• Provide consulting support for customized implementation and installation of the software and related integration elements of Epic Tapestry for managing care.
• Prioritize system build efforts. Understand and translate the business functionality into Epic system configuration and workflow validations.
• Work closely with healthcare/clinical/corporate users and application team to design, build and execute a comprehensive integration and user acceptance test plan and scripts.
• Gather requirements, provide fit gap analysis, and create effective technical solutions for the business needs.
• Collaborate with vendors, staff, and analysts to resolve outstanding issue relating to Tapestry design and workflow challenges.
• Conduct most phases of testing of complex requirements and executables for: unit, assembly, integration, and user acceptance tests for Epic.
• Follow project compliance procedures such as obtaining sign offs before developing program code in MUMPS or migration to production.
• Provide input on required processes and schedule dependencies on the overall project roll-out plans.
• Validation and static testing to proactively identify impact of changes upon other applications and downstream systems. Change management with upcoming production releases and application/systems monitoring production and performance of recently migrated components.
• Work in collaboration with Infrastructure, database and development teams for unit testing and integration testing.

• Epic Tapestry Certification is highly preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Management Information Systems, Business Administration, or equivalent work experience.
• Experience eliciting and documenting requirements in a clear and concise manner.
• Healthcare/Clinical experience is desired.
• Previous SDLC project management experience preferred.
• Previous Epic support or power user experience is strongly preferred.
• Must be able to communicate to all levels in an organization, strong critical thinking skills, adaptable, flexible, initiative-taking, and willing to take ownership.
• Experience and knowledge of SDLC methodologies.
• Ability to write basic to moderately complex SQL queries, as well as technical skills including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Jira (or similar tool.)