Epic Analytics Developer III

Harris Health; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Harris Health System in Bellaire, Texas seeks an Epic Analytics Developer III to design and develop enterprise reports, dashboards, and analytic tools. You will meet with IT staff and end users, gather requirements, write specifications, and produce documentation.

You will review vendor reports for usability, perform relational analysis, explore technological solutions for clinical reporting needs, assist with implementations, estimate development times, and mentor junior report developers in

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a computer-related field.
• 5+ years IT or software experience in health care industry.
• Experience designing and developing enterprise reports and dashboards is expected.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop enterprise reports, dashboards, and analytics tools.
• Gather user requirements, write specifications, and produce documentation.
• Review vendor reports for usability and applicability to user needs.
• Assist with implementation tasks, provide development time estimates, and communicate status.
• Maintain version histories and manage source control for reporting artifacts.

Skills

Reports development

Requirements gathering

Documentation

Vendor report review

Relational analysis

Estimating development times

Mentoring junior devs

Epic technologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, CIS, Engineering, Health Informatics, or related technical degree

Tools

Epic Technologies

Source control

Job description

About Us

Harris Health is the public healthcare safety-net provider established in 1966 to serve the residents of Harris County, Texas. As an essential healthcare system, Harris Health champions better health for the entire community, with a focus on low-income uninsured and underinsured patients, through acute and primary care, wellness, disease management and population health services. Ben Taub Hospital (Level 1 Trauma Center) and Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital (Level 3 Trauma Center) anchor Harris Health's robust network of 39 clinics, health centers, specialty locations and virtual (telemedicine) technology. Harris Health is among an elite list of health systems in the U.S. achieving Magnet® nursing excellence designation for its hospitals, the prestigious National Committee for Quality Assurance designation for its patient-centered clinics and health centers and its strong partnership with nationally recognized physician faculty, residents and researchers from Baylor College of Medicine; McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth); and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Harris County Hospital District DBA Harris Health System seeks an Epic Analytics Developer III to work in Bellaire, Texas

to design and develop enterprise reports, dashboards, and analytical or operational tools, including meet with other IT staff and end users in support of operational or analytic reporting product development; gather user requirements, set priorities, write business and technical specifications, and produce different levels of documentation for users and support staff, when necessary; review vendor created reports for usability and applicability to user needs; and conduct relational analysis on technical requirements, and develop and troubleshoot reporting products and artifacts such as dashboards, reports, stored procedures, views, and/or queries. Responsible for identifying technology solutions to help meet clinical needs, including identify and review the appropriate technological solutions for various reporting needs; investigate potential applications and utilities that may be useful in performing job functions; perform the research and testing necessary to confirm or reject their use; and communicate findings to team/supervisor. Assist with implementation of technological solutions, including work with Manager, Director, or Project Manager, to identify tasks and timelines for the implementation of solutions in support of business objectives; based on technical specifications, provide estimates for development times for reporting; report project activity and status in writing according to prescribed format and interval to designated management, and assist less experienced employees in status reporting. Maintain and support IT development and training, including maintain version histories of reports, views, and other reporting development artifacts as they are developed and modified, as well as administer the source control server; assist and support the training of less experienced IT employees; observe change control procedures and when possible, ensure changes can be rolled back; assist other report developers in correctly setting up their development computer, and in the maintenance of the requirements for a correct and complete configuration; and assist with training other report developers in the specifics of Epic's technologies and the HHS implementation of them. Develop professionally, including obtain/maintain certifications for the technologies in employee's area of responsibility; develop and maintain proficiency in the use of those applications, utilities, technologies, and skills required for the fulfillment of the job functions required of the Epic analytic developer role; and assist manager/director with interviewing candidates.

Minimum Requirements

MINIMUM EDUCATION: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, MIS, CIS, Engineering, Health Informatics, or related technical degree.

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE: 5 years of progressively responsible IT or software experience in health care industry.