IT Sr Technical Analyst

CommonSpirit Health was formed by the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health. With more than 700 care sites across the U.S. from clinics and hospitals to home-based care and virtual care services CommonSpirit is accessible to nearly one out of every four U.S. residents. Our world needs compassion like never before. Our communities need caring and our families need protection. With our combined resources CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable and innovating how and where healing can happen both inside our hospitals and out in the community.

The Senior Technical Analyst provides application technology expertise and direction in the application support/development/implementation of highly complex enterprise wide cross functional programs or projects. May lead to resolution of highly complex problems.
The Senior Technical Analyst may occasionally work on projects, engaged in enterprise wide projects as a team member or as a team leader. Acts as subject matter expert for multiple areas. Leads a cross functional team to troubleshoot highly complex hardware, software and system problems.

Remote position

•Responsible for delivering or leading the design, development, support, maintenance deployment of functional applications as well as information support processes.
• Responsible for taking on-call on a regular basis
• Lead resolution of highly complex issues or requests that need a technical expert for specific solution sets. Typically involved in problem management activities which includes performing diagnosis, troubleshooting and critical thinking to solve or fulfill needs of medium and high complexity; utilizing knowledge management and escalates issues when necessary.
• Follows appropriate change control process at all times
• Responsible to complete tasks and associated documentation within committed timeframes, and effectively communicate across teams and all levels of management.
• Lead technical analysis discussions, deliver supporting artifacts and assist with conducting review sessions for all necessary approvals.
• Develops, maintains and is a reviewer of knowledge management artifacts and leads transition to operations functions following implementation delivery.
• Receives necessary information and training of applications during the implementation of new solutions, upgrades, fixes.
• Leads product release management functions which may include developing test plans, perform test plans, facilitate with end user for end user acceptance testing and may develop application validation scripts for ongoing operations team.
• Participates in estimating and resource planning for highly complex or enterprise wide solutions.
• Provides guidance and training and problem solving assistance to other team members and operational support teams.
• Leads efforts on continuous process improvement activities to ultimately improve customer satisfaction experience.
• Involved in the development of service level agreements (SLAs). Monitors deviations and escalates issues to leadership.

The job summary and responsibilities listed above are designed to indicate the general nature of the work performed within this job. They are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all job responsibilities required of employees assigned to this job. Employees may be required to perform other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent knowledge and skills obtained through a combination of education, training, and experience in a Healthcare environment.
• 10+ years’ experience working in IT as an Application Systems Analyst or Technical Analyst role.
  
  Skills:
  - Excellent writing/documentation and communication skills.
  - Fast learner, quality consciousness and committed to providing exceptional customer service.
  - Knowledge of troubleshooting hardware and software.
  - Experience working with project life cycle or project management methodologies required.
  - 6 or more years’ experience with application support in a hospital or medical related industry required.
  - Expert level understanding and comfort leading business and technology partners through a structured deployment and/or implementation life cycle    and support model. This includes technical requirement gathering, specification development and creation of design and system test plans.
  - Advanced understanding of technology projects and concepts as they relate to high level business objectives and ability to present those concepts      to both IT and non-IT audiences in concise and an easy to understand manner is required.
  - Advanced oral and written communication skills capable of communicating at executive levels within the organization is required. This includes the      ability to present highly technical concepts, solutions, and issues in a manner business leaders can leverage to support their business vision.
  - Exceptional presentation, technical writing and documentation skills are required.