Applications Analyst - Epic Grand Central (Salaried, Full time)

StartupNWA; Fayetteville (NC); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

StartupNWA in Fayetteville, NC is seeking an Applications Analyst focusing on Epic Grand Central. This role performs advanced support, builds, tests, and optimizes Epic Grand Central and related hospital workflows.

You will partner with patient placement, nursing, registration, ED, and other teams to improve bed planning, census management, and cross-application integration while ensuring reliability and safe patient throughput.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or clinical license preferred.
• 4–6 years of clinical or operational applications experience as an applications analyst.
• Experience with Epic Grand Central workflows and related hospital operations workflows.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced support, troubleshooting, maintenance, build, testing, and optimization of Epic Grand Central.
• Collaborate with patient placement, transfer center, nursing, registration, ED, perioperative, inpatient, ancillary, operations, IS, and Epic/vendor teams to improve patient throughput.
• Ensure application reliability and safe, efficient census management across the health system.

Skills

Epic Grand Central

Epic workflows

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Clinical license

Tools

Epic

Job description

Education LevelCertification in related fieldOur mission is to improve the health of people in the communities we serve through compassionate, high-quality care, prevention, and wellness education is a community-owned, locally governed, non-profit health care system located in in the heart of Fayetteville, which is consistently ranked among the Best Places to live in the country. Our 425-bed medical center has been named the for five consecutive years by U.S. News & World Report. We employ 3,200+ team members and serve the region with over 40 clinic locations, the region's only Level II trauma center, and five Centers of Excellence - the;;;; and. The Applications Analyst - Epic Grand Central reports to the Assistant Manager, Epic Applications. This position is responsible for advanced support, troubleshooting, maintenance, build, testing, and optimization of Epic Grand Central and related hospital operations workflows. The role partners with patient placement, transfer center, nursing, registration, emergency department, perioperative, inpatient, ancillary, operational, information services, and Epic/vendor stakeholders to improve patient movement, bed planning, admission, discharge, transfer, transport, census management, capacity management, and cross-application integration; ensure application reliability; and support safe, efficient patient throughput across the health system.**Education:** Bachelor's degree or clinical license, preferred.**Experience:**Four to six years of clinical or operational applications experience as an applications analyst supporting multiple modules/applications, with direct experience in Epic build, testing, implementation, troubleshooting, and optimization strongly preferred. Experience supporting Epic Grand Central workflows is preferred, including patient movement, bed planning, bed assignment, admission, discharge, transfer, transport, transfer center workflows, census management, capacity management, reporting, and integrated hospital operations workflows. Strong understanding of clinical and operational application dependencies, workflow impacts, testing methodologies, interface and integration workflows, and coordination with technology, interface, data, reporting, registration, nursing, patient placement, transfer center, ancillary, operational, and clinical teams is required.**Work Environment**: This position will spend 90% of time sitting while performing work in a standard office environment and 10% of time standing and/or walking while pushing, pulling, lifting, and/or carrying up to 50 lbs. This is role is considered a remote position with onsite presence as needed.