Clinical Informatics Analyst

PANTHERx Rare Pharmacy; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

PANTHERx Rare Pharmacy, the nation’s largest rare disease pharmacy, seeks an Informatics Pharmacist to bridge pharmacy practice and IT delivery in Pittsburgh. This senior role focuses on translating medication workflows into structured tech requirements and ensuring safe data flows.

You will contribute to system design, clinical decision support, and documentation standards while collaborating with analytics, IT, and QA teams. Hybrid work in the Pittsburgh area is available.

Qualifications

• PharmD degree and active pharmacist license.
• 5+ years in pharmacy, informatics, or clinical informatics.
• Ability to translate clinical knowledge into structured technology requirements with acceptance criteria.
• Deep familiarity with pharmacy operations, dispensing workflows, and data feeds.
• Experience translating operational needs into precise, structured documentation.
• Strong written communication for clinical and technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes pharmacy workflows to develop structured technology requirements, including user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Applies clinical pharmacy judgment to requirements affecting medication data, dispensing workflows, clinical rules, prior authorization, and patient safety.
• Conducts current-state and future-state workflow analysis for pharmacy and clinical systems, identifying gaps and risks.
• Documents clinical requirements with precise detail for QA handoff and testing.
• Provides pharmacist-level input on system configuration, integration design, and data flow decisions for pharmacy systems and interfaces.
• Reviews and validates clinical logic in systems for accuracy and patient safety implications.

Skills

Pharmacy informatics experience

Workflow analysis

Documentation & writing

Interoperability standards knowledge

Education

Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD)

Tools

NCPDP

HL7 FHIR

Job description

7,000 Diseases - 500 Treatments - 1 Rare Pharmacy

PANTHERx is the nation’s largest rare disease pharmacy, and we put the patient experience at the top of everything that we do.

If you are looking for a career in the healthcare field that embraces authentic dedication to patient care, you don’t need to look beyond PANTHERx. In every line of service, in every position and area of expertise, PANTHERx associates are driven to provide the highest quality outcomes for our patients.

We Are Seeking Team Members Who

• Are inspired and compassionate problem solvers;
• Produce high quality work;
• Thrive in the excitement of the ever-challenging environment of modern medicine; and
• Are committed to achieving superior health outcomes for people living with rare and devastating diseases.

Join the PANTHERx team, and define your own RxARE future in healthcare!

Informatics Pharmacist

Location: Pittsburgh, PA (Hybrid)

Classification: Exempt

Status: Full-Time

Purpose

The Informatics Pharmacist applies pharmacy expertise to technology analysis, system design, and requirements development within the Clinical Informatics track. This role is a senior individual contributor who bridges pharmacy practice and IT delivery: translating medication-related workflows, clinical rules, and pharmacy operational needs into structured, testable requirements, and ensuring that system configurations, integrations, and clinical data flows are safe, accurate, and grounded in pharmacy practice standards. The Informatics Pharmacist serves as the pharmacist-level clinical authority on assigned workstreams, providing the depth of medication and clinical practice knowledge that Clinical Informatics Analysts draw on across Informatics workstreams.

Responsibilities

Pharmacy Informatics & Requirements

• Analyzes pharmacy workflows, medication management processes, and clinical operational needs to develop structured technology requirements, including user stories and acceptance criteria that meet Informatics methodology standards.
• Applies clinical pharmacy judgment to requirements affecting medication data, dispensing workflows, clinical rules, prior authorization, and patient safety, ensuring system behavior reflects sound pharmacy practice.
• Conducts current-state and future-state workflow analysis for pharmacy and clinical systems, identifying gaps, risks, and design considerations before work enters delivery.
• Documents clinical requirements with sufficient precision for QA to execute acceptance criteria directly, in alignment with the Informatics-to-QA handoff standard.

System Design & Clinical Decision Support

• Provides pharmacist-level input on system configuration, integration design, and data flow decisions for pharmacy management systems, EHR interfaces, and clinical data feeds.
• Reviews and validates clinical logic embedded in systems, including drug data, dosing rules, interaction checking, and clinical decision support content, for accuracy and patient safety implications.
• Evaluates interoperability requirements for pharmacy and clinical systems, applying knowledge of NCPDP, HL7, and FHIR standards to ensure integration designs are clinically sound and technically executable.
• Participates in technical design reviews, contributing clinical pharmacy perspective on decisions that affect pharmacy operations, patient care workflows, or clinical data integrity.

Documentation & Standards

• Produces high-quality requirements documentation, workflow diagrams, and business process models that meet the Clinical Informatics track's methodology standards.
• Maintains and updates pharmacy and clinical system documentation, including integration specifications, configuration guides, and workflow maps, as systems evolve.
• Contributes to the development and refinement of Clinical Informatics standards, templates, and quality benchmarks in collaboration with the Informatics leadership.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partners with Business Analysts, Product Owners, and QA to ensure clinical requirements are accurate, complete, and directly usable in delivery and test execution.
• Serves as a pharmacist subject matter resource for Data & Analytics, IT Infrastructure, and AI teams on projects with medication data, clinical workflow, or patient safety implications.
• Provides informal clinical guidance to Clinical Informatics Analysts on pharmacy domain content, medication data standards, and clinically accurate documentation, without direct management responsibility.
• Participates in delivery planning ceremonies and stakeholder meetings as the clinical pharmacy voice for assigned workstreams.

Required Qualifications

• Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree and active, unrestricted pharmacist licensure.
• 5+ years of experience in pharmacy practice, pharmacy informatics, or clinical informatics, with demonstrated exposure to pharmacy technology systems and medication-related workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to translate clinical pharmacy knowledge into structured technology requirements, including acceptance criteria that engineering and QA teams can execute against.
• Deep familiarity with pharmacy operations and the systems that support them: pharmacy management systems, dispensing workflows, clinical data feeds, and medication data.
• Experience conducting workflow analysis and translating operational needs into precise, structured documentation.
• Strong written communication skills; able to produce clear, precise documentation for both clinical and technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in specialty pharmacy, rare disease, or high-complexity clinical environments.
• Board certification (BCPS, BCACP, or equivalent) or pharmacy informatics certification.
• Familiarity with interoperability standards: NCPDP, HL7 FHIR, and pharmacy-specific data exchange formats.
• Exposure to clinical decision support design, medication management systems, or prior authorization workflows.
• Familiarity with agile delivery practices and acceptance criteria standards sufficient to contribute directly to story-level requirements.
• Familiarity with ASTQB/ISTQB concepts sufficient to review acceptance criteria for clinical requirements.

Work Environment

This position works in a home office and professional office environment. When in-office this role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines, and communications via MS Teams.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, see, talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands and fingers to handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. Visual acuity is necessary for tasks such as reading and working with various forms of data on a screen. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

Work Environment

This position works in a home office and professional office environment. When in-office this role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines, and communications via MS Teams.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, see, talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands and fingers to handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. Visual acuity is necessary for tasks such as reading and working with various forms of data on a screen. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.