Lead Health Informatics Analyst — Clin IT & Data Strategy

Gritter Francona; Washington; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Care Plan

Retirement Plan

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Short Term & Long Term Disability

Training & Development

Job summary

Gritter Francona is seeking a Lead Health Informatics Analyst to drive clinical informatics initiatives. You will lead a team delivering standardized data practices, and establish QA processes while aligning with clinical workflows and regulatory standards.

You will act as the primary client-facing representative, translating clinical needs into actionable requirements and overseeing UAT, change management, and governance across OH/CPRS/VistA platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• 8 years of relevant experience, including at least 6 years in Health Informatics.
• Extensive experience configuring OH and CPRS/VistA systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of Health IT Informatics Analysts specializing in clinical systems and data standardization.
• Establish and enforce informatics standards, best practices, and quality assurance processes.
• Review and approve informatics artifacts to ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance with organizational and client expectations.
• Serve as the escalation point for complex informatics, configuration, and requirements challenges.
• Act as a primary client-facing representative for Health IT informatics activities.
• Translate clinical and business needs into clear, actionable functional and non-functional requirements.
• Lead requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, validation, and change management activities.
• Develop and maintain requirements artifacts, including use cases, user stories, workflows, data dictionaries, and traceability matrices.
• Ensure alignment of requirements with clinical workflows, regulatory standards, and Health IT best practices.
• Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) planning, execution, defect triage, and resolution.
• Provide expert-level configuration, analysis, and support for OH and/or CPRS/VistA systems.
• Lead informatics activities related to the capture, standardization, and use of health and clinical data.
• Support systems and data used for therapeutic discovery, medical research, clinical operations, and life sciences initiatives.
• Ensure accurate information modeling and data governance practices across Health IT solutions.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for systems, processes, and data flows.
• Create standardized templates and artifacts to support repeatable, high-quality informatics delivery.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and optimization within clinical informatics workflows.

Skills

Health informatics

Requirements elicitation

Documentation

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Tools

OH configuration

CPRS/VistA configuration

Job description

Gritter Francona is seeking a Lead Health Informatics Analyst to drive clinical informatics initiatives. You will lead a team delivering standardized data practices, and establish QA processes while aligning with clinical workflows and regulatory standards.

You will act as the primary client-facing representative, translating clinical needs into actionable requirements and overseeing UAT, change management, and governance across OH/CPRS/VistA platforms.