Lead, Health Informatics
Fraser Health
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Job summary
Fraser Health is seeking a Lead, Health Informatics to guide enterprise integration projects across clinical and business systems. You will oversee architecture, security, and implementation while mentoring teams and aligning deliverables with business needs.
The role requires strong communication, SDLC expertise, and experience with Azure-based integration and health data standards such as FHIR/HL7. Hybrid opportunities exist within Fraser Health’s digital enablement teams.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Health Information Science, Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field.
- Five years of recent experience with business/systems analysis and project management.
- Experience with health informatics and enterprise information systems.
Responsibilities
- Lead integration projects and provide guidance across stakeholders.
- Manage project timelines, budgets, and reporting to Portfolio Manager.
- Provide mentorship to integration and development teams.
- Develop and document technical designs, architecture, and system specs.
- Collaborate with architects, vendors, and operations teams.
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Job description
The salary range for this position is CAD $46.37 - $66.66 / hour
We are proud of the innovation, dedication, partnership and tenacity of our physicians, employees, and volunteers. More than any building or technology, it's our people who make Fraser Health distinct.
Do you want to utilize your technical skills, information systems knowledge and develop as a leader in Fraser Health’sDigital Enablement Teamin the areas ofApplication Integration Services? If so, then keep on reading.
As anIntegration Leadyou will provide application services consultation to the business area at all levels, system architecture, solution architecture, security, database, and technical design etc.
You will be working on various technical artifacts in accordance with the best practise.
You enjoy spending time on R&D to solve system challenges.
You will excel as you work with all levels of the business, ensuring technology deliverable align with the business requirements.
You are an excellent communicator. You know the how to convey message to different audience of different background.
You have the project management skill set to lead small to medium scale projects.
- Provide consulting support for all phases of project initiation, requirements, development, implementation, and system operations management.
- Provide mentorship, support and system administration of an interoperable solution that enables integration of clinical and business workflows across core clinical systems at Fraser Health, numerous other regional and provincial integration initiatives.
- Participate in all aspect of SDLC, from requirement gathering to creating specification, from development to unit testing, from conformance test to production deployment.
- Provider mentorship to team members
- Bachelor’s degree in health information Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related
- At least seven (7) years of recent related experience in a technical role or software development role with three (3) to five (5) years of project management experience.
- Strong experience with enterprise integration technologies, such as Azure API Management (APIM), Functions, Logic Apps, and event/message-based integration.
- Hands-on experience designing, developing, and consuming RESTful APIs and Web Services.
- Solid understanding of integration patterns (e.g. event-driven, message-based, service-oriented).
- Experience developing frameworks and services using .NET (C#).
- Working knowledge of web technologies (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript).
- Experience with IIS configuration, SSL/TL certificates, and secure application hosting.
- Familiarity with health data standards and formats, such as FHIR, HL7, XML, and JSON.
- Proficiency in SQL and strong experience with Microsoft SQL Server, including performance tuning and ad-hoc queries.
- Experience with reporting and analytics tools such as SSRS or SAP BusinessObjects (SAP BOE).
- Experience with Azure DevOps for source control, CI/CD pipelines, and work tracking.
- Understanding of IT infrastructure and networking concepts, such as firewalls, load balancers, DNS, and secure connectivity.
- Familiarity with project management best practices, methodologies, and artifacts (e.g., Agile, Waterfall, hybrid).
- Experience leading or mentoring integration and development teams.
- Ability to collaborate with architects, business stakeholders, vendors, and operations teams.
- Experience producing briefing notes, business cases, and technical design documentation.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and research & development (R&D) skills.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Proven ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities.
Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health including service delivery that is centered around patients/clients/residents and families:
The Lead, Health Informatics is responsible for leading and managing assigned projects, providing leadership to team members and applying appropriate change management strategies as part of a project. Provides advice, guidance, and direction to an assigned portfolio in the areas of knowledge management, and decision support; in clinical and corporate business areas which includes the development and implementation of application architecture. Provides expertise on enterprise-wide projects, serves as back up to the Portfolio Manager in the area of team leadership.
- Provides guidance and expertise by consulting to all disciplines and stakeholders within an assigned portfolio by performing functions such as coordinating and performing feasibility studies, conducting workload efficiency analysis using formal data gathering techniques, analyzing, designing and implementing appropriate information systems, and identifying system deficiencies, user department operational inefficiencies and recommending ways of improving business efficiency functions.
- Participates in enterprise-wide, cross-disciplinary business strategy projects including confidential initiatives that support the selection, procurement and implementation of appropriate information systems applications that may result in the elimination of FTEs.
- Serves as a consultant participating on enterprise-wide projects which are under the leadership of the Portfolio Manager; serves as back up to the Portfolio Manager in the area of team leadership or project management. Prepares status reports and meets with clients and provide reports back to the Portfolio Manager as required.
- Responsible to establish and lead assigned information system projects by adhering to project management and support structure methodologies, managing project timelines, monitoring expenditures and variance analysis, facilitating change management strategies, defining tasks, identifying resource needs, and reporting on project status to the Portfolio Manager or Manager. Provides strategic guidance in the project design phases and works within assigned budget and provides reports or raises concerns as necessary. Participates in the hiring process for staff, and coordinates and provides guidance to team members.
- Performs system analysis by establishing application systems scope and objectives, conducting feasibility studies, planning or modifying procedures to solve complex problems, preparing detailed specifications and solving existing system logic difficulties as required. Recommends the best cost effective solutions for the business area; informs and discusses potential business impacts with the client.
- Performs complex business and/or clinical process analysis including conducting work flow analysis and developing business information requirements and models. Defines business and/or health information scope and objectives; plans, designs and modifies practical manual and automated business procedures.
- Coordinates and provides third level application support to critical system problems and ensures that the application service level agreement in place is written or maintained to meet the business expectations and Informatics capabilities. This may include vendor or 3rd party coordination Coordinates the support rotation and monitors the support queue.
- Serves on a variety of Fraser Health wide health service delivery area and departmental committees, task groups, internal working teams and corporate projects.
- Maintains knowledge of infrastructure and technologies by remaining aware of current and new technologies
Bachelor's degree in Health Information Science or Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. Five (5) years of recent experience with business and systems analysis including experience as a project manager. Experience with health and corporate information systems.
Demonstrates the leadership practices of the Fraser Health Leadership Framework of Clear, Caring and Courageous and creates the conditions for people to succeed.
Professional/Technical Capabilities:
- Ability to provide leadership to a variety of project teams in an environment that constantly changes and that has fluctuating priorities.
- Knowledge of information management, health informatics, business processes, technologies and applications.
- Knowledge of all components of a technical architecture.
- Ability to translate business and/or clinical needs into application architecture requirements.
- Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the project management process and the systems development life cycle.
- Demonstrated decision making ability within complex and diverse issues.
- Demonstrated superior skills in data research, gathering, modeling, and business and systems analysis.
- Ability to organize work, problem solve, multitask and meet deadlines.
- Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.
Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.
People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 50,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.
We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.
Together, we are the heart of health care.
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