Senior Healthcare Applications Analyst

University of Maryland Medical System Corporation; Columbia (MD); On-site; USD 65,000 - 97,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Maryland Medical System seeks a senior analysis professional to gather and analyze user needs for clinical and business applications in a healthcare setting. You will lead documentation, write specifications, conduct fact-finding, analyze results, and propose solutions while building and configuring applications with existing tools.

You will supervise complex analysis and design, provide guidance to end users and junior staff, and lead testing, conversion planning, and project cost

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a health, science, or business field, or an equivalent level of professional experience required. Masters degree preferred.
• Seven years progressively responsible experience in information applications, including one year performing programming or applications analysis, or equivalent, such as business analysis.
• Certification in Service Management, Project Management, or Business Analysis desired.

Responsibilities

• Leads highly complex analysis, design, development, testing and support services for assigned applications.
• Oversees day to day tracking and follow-up on issues and questions of daily operations. Validates testing results.
• Leads applications analysis and impact analysis of new or different applications, processes or changes.
• Provides highly complex application support and guidance to end users and provides technical guidance to less experienced personnel.
• Leads development of application testing scripts and conversion plans. Participates in testing as assigned.
• Prepares written documentation of various types; application documentation, analytical reports, functional specifications, training manuals, status reports, etc.
• Participates and/or leads complex projects, estimates costs, time frames, staffing requirements and prepares cost justifications.
• Leads the designing for each application assigned, under the control of the change management application and user development request.
• Prepares and validates complete applications documentation for operations and sets programming specifications for user departments.

Skills

Analysis & problem solving

Requirements gathering

Documentation

Communication

Project leadership

Training & mentoring

Change management

Quality assurance

Education

Bachelor's Degree in health/science/business

Master's degree preferred

Certifications in Service Management/PM/BA desired

Job description

University of Maryland Medical System seeks a senior analysis professional to gather and analyze user needs for clinical and business applications in a healthcare setting. You will lead documentation, write specifications, conduct fact-finding, analyze results, and propose solutions while building and configuring applications with existing tools.

You will supervise complex analysis and design, provide guidance to end users and junior staff, and lead testing, conversion planning, and project cost