Senior Application Analyst - Epic Beaker/EpicCare Link

Abbott (abbottcareers2 board); United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott is hiring a Senior Application Analyst to lead Epic Beaker and EpicCare Link initiatives within the Cancer Diagnostics IT team. You will design, configure, test, and upgrade systems, mentor junior staff, and coordinate with stakeholders to align business needs with system changes.

The role requires 5+ years in healthcare IT, a relevant degree, strong analytical skills, and the ability to work across a matrix environment, with on-call responsibilities and potential travel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS or related field; or high school diploma/general education diploma and 4 years of relevant experience in lieu of Bachelor's degree.
• 5+ years of experience developing or configuring applications for healthcare IT systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the estimation of enhancement or support requests.
• Guide workflow design, configure and test system changes, and analyze technical issues.
• Liaise with business systems stakeholders and vendor staff to ensure alignment of needs and delivery.
• Develop understanding of operational needs to set direction for workflows and drive improvements.
• Participate in training and work with end users to ensure effective adoption.
• Troubleshoot problems and provide end-user support in tracking systems.
• Review project and issue status with project leadership and steer activities accordingly.
• Mentor junior analysts and lead cross-functional collaboration on process design and documentation.

Skills

Beaker

EpicCare Link

Business systems design

Configuration

End-user support

Mentorship

Stakeholder liaison

Testing

Troubleshooting

Process improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or MIS or related field

4 years of relevant experience in lieu of Bachelor's degree

Tools

Epic Beaker

EpicCare Link

Job description

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Position Overview

At Abbott Cancer Diagnostics, we're cancer fighters. That's not a tagline, it's the reason we come to work every day. Our mission is to change lives through advances in cancer detection and treatment guidance, and ultimately to help eradicate the disease and the suffering it causes. Everything we build, including the software you'd be leading, exists to move that mission forward.

As a Senior Application Analyst - Epic Beaker/EpicCare Link, you will work on business systems design and configuration, Upgrades, and improvements for assigned technology platforms. As a primary support contact for application end-users, the Senior Application Analyst - Epic Beaker/EpicCare Link will work to identify issues that arise in the application area, as well as issues that impact other application teams and work to resolve them. The Senior Application Analyst - Epic Beaker/EpicCare Link will perform impact analysis of desired changes, build and test systems changes, and identify areas of improvement associated with platform performance and opportunities to enable business processes and requirements.

The Senior Application Analyst - Epic Beaker/EpicCare Link will act as a mentor to more junior analysts on the team, support questions and may delegate activities to other analysts.

Essential Duties

• Lead the estimation of enhancement or support requests.
• Guide workflow design, configure and test system changes, and analyze technical issues.
• Liaise with business systems stakeholders and software vendor's implementation staff, ensuring alignment of business needs with delivery of systems changes.
• Develop an understanding of operational needs to set the direction for the organization's workflows; proactively identify opportunities to improve business workflow with technology improvements.
• Participate in training and work with end users.
• Troubleshoot problems and questions.
• Provide end-user support for issues entered into tracking systems.
• Review the status of projects and issues with project leadership.
• Assign or delegate configuration or other activities to Application Analysts or Managed Services team members.
• Act as delegate for Applications Manager for incident or problem resolution.
• Provide mentorship for other peers and leadership to solve problems, even if it's outside of their normal responsibilities/scope.
• Be a leader on internal process design and documentation to drive continuous improvement for the IT department or team.
• Ability to work within normal business hours, as well as on-call, with potential for nights and weekends.
• Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.
• Support and comply with the company's Quality Management System policies and procedures.
• Regular and reliable attendance.
• Demonstrate flexibility with respect to changing end-user business needs.
• Work within a cross functional team.
• Apply strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability and willingness to take ownership of work activities and ensure that they are done in a timely, accurate and efficient manner.
• Ability and willingness to recognize assignments or tasks that need to be completed, to seek out additional assignments or tasks and to help others.
• Ability to communicate information clearly and concisely with project leadership, subject matter experts and key stakeholders.
• Ability to persevere in difficult situations, overcome obstacles, and reach high levels of performance when faced with stressful work situations and time pressures.
• Ability and willingness to learn new software applications.
• Strong analytical skills, business intuition, and organizational ability.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, ability to operate in a cross functional and complex matrix environment.
• Adaptable, open to change and able to work in ambiguous situations and respond to new information or unexpected circumstances.
• Ability to operate telephone system and computer keyboard and printer.
• Ability to lift up to 10 pounds for approximately 5% of a typical working day.
• Ability to work in front of a computer screen and/or perform typing for approximately 90% of a typical working day.
• Ability to comply with any applicable personal protective equipment requirements.
• Ability to travel approximately 5% of working time.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems or related field; or high school degree/general education diploma and 4 years of relevant experience in lieu of Bachelor's degree.
• 5+ years of experience developing or configur