IT Sr. Interface Analyst | Helios Technology Expense
DESCRIPTION:
Working under general supervision of the Project Manager, Interface Analyst Specialist, or the Director: develops, tests, implements, and supports clinical and administrative data interfaces between Epic and ancillary systems, both internal and external. The IT Senior Interface Analyst is part of a team that is accountable for production support (including on-call duties in a 24X7 environment) as well as new projects to improve integration between Epic and other systems.
The ideal candidate will have experience using technical analytical skills to seek out, research and evaluate a variety of solutions to provide clients with high quality, efficient workflows that promote efficiency and enterprise-wide standardization.
The ideal candidate will also understand design and development principles as they relate to interfaces and may include but are not limited to data flow diagrams, data element dictionaries, file mappings, field layouts and command level operations. He or she will also possess Epic Bridges 2012 certification (or higher), Cloverleaf Level II certification, Cloverleaf version 5.8 or higher experience (including TCL usage) in a Unix/AIX environment, and Epic Bridges experience.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Lead the configuration effort of new interfaces and enhancements to existing interfaces for Epic applications and their corresponding ancillary systems.
- Troubleshoot technical problems and conducts analyses for efficient program/application solutions (in both Cloverleaf and Epic Bridges) which support client business processes, functional and technical requirements.
- Assists with activities to monitor and maintain a complex interface environment for efficient program/application operations (including functional and technical system balancing efforts)
- Consultant for integration solutions and architecture.
- Coordinate solutions and planning with other IT teams. Collaborate with Application Analysts, IT and Operational areas to identify and resolve workflow impacts.
- Direct and plan relevant workflow/dataflow sessions and manage resulting requirements changes with senior business sponsors.
- Perform occasional training of end users for Bridges end user tools.
- Collaborate with work teams, departments, system leadership, clinicians, staff, other IT groups, and technology vendors to define needs and facilitate solutions.
- Provides input to estimate work effort and resource requirements for SOWs.
- Manages medium-to-complex Epic and circle of support integration issues and critical support/enhancements issues in the HFHS HELIOS (Epic) systems.
- Performs maintenance (routine requests), incidents resolution, testing activities and assists teammates.
- Works closely with Ancillary Departments, HELIOS Application Analysts, Operations, Epic, other technology vendors, and other IT groups to triage, diagnosis and resolve all interface production support issues to the satisfaction of our customers.
- May supervise the activities and efforts of 1-2 other Interface Analysts, providing leadership, mentoring and coaching on interface activities.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelor's degree required.
- Seven (7) years of applicable work experience required; Five (5) years applicable experience in a Healthcare setting preferred. Preferred technical experience includes strong knowledge of state-of-the-art software engineering approaches in design, build, test, debugging problems, and ongoing technical support, and ability to articulate examples of workflows and processes associated with that experience.
- Expertise with healthcare industry standard messaging formats (e.g., HL7, XML, ANSI x12).
- Experience/exposure to the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- Current Certification on Epic Bridges (May hire into position without certification, but must attain certification within the first 6 months of hire to continue employment).
- Certification on Cloverleaf interface engine (version 5.6 or higher) (May hire into position without certification, but must attain certification within the first 6 months of hire to continue employment).
- Experience on at least two (2) major system implementations.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrated working knowledge of medical terminology.
Additional Details
This posting represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that incumbents may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described above.
Overview
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