Application Architect - Epic EMR Cloud Integrations

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The Applications Architect is responsible for analyzing and understanding our clients' clinical and business applications/modules (Epic EMR) to improve the provider, business operations, clinical staff and patient experience. This role involves the assessment and analysis of current environments and translates user requirements into system specifications, directing design and establishes core functionality necessary to support clinical and operational workflows and end user adoption. Develops approaches and plans for the evolution of clinical and business applications to ensure the integrity, stability, and scalability of the software solution in all pre-production and production environments. Closely collaborates and partners with IT leaders, medical staff, clinical operations as well as partner organizations and vendor support, to evaluate current state build, understands future state options with impact analysis to make recommendations based on system health, best practices and application usability.

Responsibilities

• Oversees, participates, and collaborates on the design, testing, implementation, and support of Epic based clinical and business applications.

• Lead project teams and workgroups to evaluate current state environment, create proper documentation, and recommend future state environment supporting clinical workflows, operational processes, and continuous improvement.

• Combines knowledge of the system and change management concepts to effectively address system issues and promote safe, effective, and efficient use of health IT.

• Handle ad-hoc questions requiring architects knowledge and resolve assigned support incident tickets.

• Analyzes existing solutions, application release notes and system architectures to proactively identify opportunities for new and better solutions.

• Research vendor documentation and user channels to identify potential risks and opportunities.

• Serves as a liaison to vendor support service groups and vendor technical support to solve problems, communicate gaps, or possible enhancements to the system.

• Participates on appropriate committees and workgroups as the acting application resource, providing consultation in area of expertise and quickly escalating issues requiring leadership approval as appropriate.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Minimum 5 years of experience as an application analyst or similar discipline.

• Demonstrated leadership skills, critical thinking, and problem-solving capabilities.

• Deep understanding of interoperability and system integration.

• Strong written and verbal communications skills to effectively communicate in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences.

• A high level of analytical skills with attention to detail as well as capable to look at the bigger picture.

• Ability to self-organize, self-motivate, and self-manage a variety of projects.

• Strong hands-on experience with Azure Cloud environments.

• Strong working knowledge and experience supporting cloud-based Epic EMR implementations and conversions.

• Proficient in use of standard office computer software programs (i.e., Microsoft Office), equipment and clinical information systems.

Preferred:

• Azure Cloud Certifications

• Epic EMR Certifications

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