Sr. Programmer/Analyst - IT

At Henry Ford Health, we're committed to advancing health and improving lives for the millions of people we serve across Michigan and around the world. As one of the nation's leading academic health systems, we provide a comprehensive continuum of care that includes primary and preventive services, specialty and complex care, virtual care, pharmacy, home health, eye care, health insurance, and more. With 12 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory care locations, including former Ascension Southeast Michigan and Flint Region facilities, our growing network expands access to exceptional care in the communities we serve.

Headquartered in Detroit, Henry Ford Health is helping shape the future of healthcare through the transformative Future of Health: Detroit initiative, a $3 billion investment that is redefining our academic healthcare campus and advancing innovation, research, education, and community impact.

Our work is grounded in purpose, collaboration, and belonging. We empower team members to grow their careers, contribute innovative ideas, and make a meaningful difference every day. Whether you're caring for patients, supporting operations, conducting research, or driving new solutions, you'll be part of a team united by a shared mission: delivering exceptional care, advancing health outcomes, and building healthier communities for all.

Job Description

ALL CANDIDATES MUST BE LOCAL TO STATE OF MICHIGAN

About the Team:

This team provides expert Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) services focused on the Human Resource Management System (HRMS) domain. The team is responsible for developing new capabilities, enhancing, and optimizing existing HR processes, and integrating core HRMS functions with upstream and downstream enterprise systems. A key priority is ensuring system stability, reliability, data integrity, security, and regulatory compliance while supporting the evolving workforce and business objectives of Henry Ford Health (HFH). 

The team partners closely with Human Resources, Payroll, Benefits, Talent Acquisition, Workforce Management, and other business stakeholders to understand operational needs and translate them into scalable, sustainable technical solutions. Areas of expertise include Core HR, Human Resources Administration, Benefits Administration, Payroll, Time and Labor, Position Management, Employee and Manager Self-Service, Talent Management, and related HR workflows and integrations.

This position offers an opportunity to work on strategic HR technology initiatives that enhance the employee experience, streamline business processes, and support the digital transformation goals of Henry Ford Health. The successful candidate will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver innovative and reliable solutions that drive operational excellence across the organization.

About the Role:

Under the general direction of the Project Manager or the Portfolio Director: leads the analysis, design, development, testing, and documentation on new and/or enhancements to PeopleSoft applications. Formulates and defines system scope and objectives based on user-defined needs. Devises or modifies procedures to solve complex problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time, and form of desired results. Designs, codes, tests, debugs, and documents those programs or directs others in those activities. Has full technical knowledge of all phases of applications systems analysis and programming. Has good understanding of the business or function for which application is designed. Will regularly provide guidance and training to less experienced teammates. The responsibilities also include troubleshooting application issues and/or data issues when they arise. You will communicate solutions, issues, and risks directly with technical management or other responsible entities to ensure a fully integrated solution across multiple work streams. The Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer is leader in an IT team that is accountable for production support (including on-call duties in a 24x7 environment) as well as new projects. The ideal candidate will have experience using analytical skills to seek out, research and evaluate a variety of options to provide clients with high quality, efficient business processes and solutions that promote efficiency and enterprise-wide standardization.

Qualifications

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Bachelor's degree required, Master's degree preferred.
• 7 years of applicable work experience required; 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 Oracle Peoplesoft v9.x HR and/or Finance/Supply chain application modules
• Expertise with Oracle Peoplesoft PeopleTools 8.5x - Demonstrated experience with Application Designer, Peoplecode, Application Engine, Component Interface, SQR, Integration Broker and XML Publisher
• Demonstrated experience with PS Query, SQL
• Peoplesoft application performance tuning and SQL tuning experience preferred
• Experience with at least two (2) major Peoplesoft implementations and/or upgrades
• Previous supervisory experience preferred.
• Proven ability to peer review functional and technical tasks
• Ability to be flexible and work analytically in a problem-solving environment.
• Good organizational, multi-tasking, and time-management skills.
• Good communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
• Proven ability to work independently and as a team member.
• Experience/exposure to the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

PREFERRED TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Automate and Power Apps.
• Copilot Studio and AI agent development.
• Azure OpenAI and generative AI concepts.
• SharePoint and Microsoft 365 integrations.
• Cloud fundamentals across Azure, OCI, or AWS.
• Git, Azure DevOps, and source control best practices.
• Integration technologies, data migration, and enterprise reporting solutions.
• Experience supporting HR, Payroll, Benefits, Talent Acquisition, or Workforce Management business processes.