Application Analyst - Clinical Application Analyst

Application Analyst I, II or III Clinical Applications

At Duke Health, we're driven by a commitment to compassionate care that changes the lives of patients, their loved ones, and the greater community. No matter where your talents lie, join us and discover how we can advance health together.

Pursue your passion for caring and innovation with Duke Heath Technology Solutions, which is dedicated to the transformation, development, and management of enterprise information technology solutions across Duke Health. By harnessing the power of innovative technologies like cloud computing and artificial intelligence and pairing them with a forward-thinking approach Duke Health Technology Solutions is revolutionizing the future of health care at Duke Health and beyond.

Hybrid - NC Residents

The Application Analyst couples knowledge of business practices/operations with knowledge of information systems to implement, maintain and support Duke Health Clinical and Business applications.

Responsibilities and duties include:

• Interprets and analyzes systems, data, and information with supervision.
• Implements applications, tools, processes and structures that assist end users with the management of data in their business unit.
• Provides systems support, including troubleshooting and the configuration and testing of software.
• Ensures security of technology solutions with supervision.
• Participates in planning and providing customer training sessions on system use or revisions.
• Assists in making oral and written presentations to project teams and management.
• Completes moderately complex tasks and portions of larger information system projects with direction.
• Identifies internal resources to build project team performance.
• Author and updates system, operational and department documentation.
• Recommends areas for process improvement.
• Provide application system support for team rotating 24x7 support
• Facilitate issue resolution with internal teams: Service Desk, Networking, Device Support, Citrix, OS, Server, VM/Docker Containers, Database, App development, Operations, DevOps
• Coordinate design, implementation and management of HL7 Interfaces and FHIR APIs
• Produce Data / System Flow diagrams to represent new system designs
• Coordinate continuous vulnerability management / patching for each apps servers
• Manage logs: application, OS, and system
• Ensure application / data backup and disaster recovery processes are in place and tested
• Detailed analysis and documentation of customer workflows
• Collaborate with Administrative, Business, Clinical and Research customers to understand and meet needs
• Coordinate Application Testing
• Follow established Change Management processes
• Provide feedback on departmental processes and procedures / suggest improvements
• Plan and coordinate system and application upgrades
• Develop relationships with vendors to ensure customer needs are met in a timely manner
• Ensure systems conform to Duke Information Security Office policies and procedures
• Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein.

Required Qualifications at this Level

Education: Bachelor's degree in a related clinical or technical field, or four years of equivalent technical experience required.

Experience: Level 1- One year of related experience is required. Level 2- Three years of related experience is required. Level 3- Five years of related experience is required.

Degrees, Licensure, and/or Certification: If applicable, maintenance of North Carolina licensure or certification in related clinical or technical discipline is required for all levels. Level 2- Certification in an area of application support of a technical or support nature preferred. Level 3- Certification in an area of application support of a technical or support nature.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Customer service focused, strong technical support skills
• Relationship builder
• Critical thinker
• Working knowledge of: Statistical reporting, Data coding general, Data analysis and trending, Database design/programming, Database management software
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Ability to translate business process into a technical solution
• Willingness to be trained and to provide training and support to clinical or business staff with new implementations or workflows
• Team player!
• Willingness to learn and be innovative
• Positive approach and attitude in difficult/challenging situations
• Support of our quality assurance initiatives to include huddles and escalations when necessary
• Clear, methodical thinking in stressful situations
• Works well with others across all DH areas and especially with team members across DHTS when a critical event is underway

• Knowledge of project management to manage deliverables
• Ability to understand design specifications for information systems
• Experience with implementation of information systems and maintenance of information systems
• Knowledge of procurement procedures

• Ability to lead discovery sessions
• Advanced technical consultation and support
• Ability to design complex information systems
• Financial procedures
• Implementation of complex information systems
• Contract negotiation theory (may be required)
• Supervision of Staff (may be required)

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Experience with Server (Linux, Windows) Administration
• Basic understanding of Networking topologies, Firewall rules, Certificate Management
• Database Structures / Report Writing
• Development experience in at least one language/environment
• Supervisory Experience
• Project management, SCRUM experience
• Application Development Lifecycle, ideally with DevOps focus
• HL7 experience

Duke is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy related conditions), sexual orientation or military status.

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