Business Analyst/Architect Lead, Information Resources

Why UT Southwestern?

With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. As one of the world's foremost research institutions, UT Southwestern Medical Center is known for our life-changing research that has led us to 6 Nobel Prizes. With a career in our esteemed Department of Information Resources, you will be a key part of our multidisciplinary research facility with opportunities to work with leaders in patient care and medical research.

Job Summary

This position functions as the support analyst for all of Surgical Services located at Clements University Hospital, Zale and OSC, to include providing back up support for Anesthesia. The incumbent will be expected to participate/lead UTSW EMR projects with minimum to no supervision from the supervisor. Additionally, will function in leading and coordinating projects and tasks with minimal supervision, or independently, and provide updates to customer(s) and internal management on a regular basis. Is expected to utilize their highest skills in critical and analytical thinking for troubleshooting, tasks and projects and also expected to be a knowledge resource for other team members and analysts within the department, as well as mentor junior staff. This position provides after-hours support on a rotating basis with other team members

Experience and Education

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, computer science, or other related fields and seven (7) years business systems and/or project experience with exposure to systems or project development and testing, installation, and training.

Job Duties

• Acts as the advanced technical lead of applications including system design, development and testing; designs all proposed technical changes to system architecture.
• Oversee upgrade of major applications to ensure system integrity.
• Lead major capital IT projects with overall accountability for completing project on-time and on-budget.
• Manages projects and serves as primary customer contact; defines and maintains project plan schedules.
• Monitors compliance with definitions of project scope, timelines and deliverables.
• Provides regular project status reports to customer and internal management.
• Assists business analysts of lower grade to coordinate projects.
• Collects, interprets and documents specifications required to develop new and revise existing software applications.
• Develops and implements operational plans for new and existing business computer applications.
• Participates in development of project proposals for customers.
• Coordinates testing of new applications and changes to existing applications to ensure integrity and quality of data while providing and/or assisting in training of system users.
• Defines and develops test scenarios.
• Documents and tracks status of application errors and related issues in problem log; assist programmers and business analysts of lower grade in analyzing and resolving problems.
• Compiles complete, concise and comprehensive policies and operation procedures to assist in communicating issues to applicable management staff; develops new system administrative procedures required utilizing new functionality resulting from system changes.
• Assists in developing and implementing business strategies in departments to improve operational processing and productivity.
• Monitors development of specifications and establishes priorities for accomplishing design and testing of various projects.
• Reviews develops, recommends and implements activities, programs or functions as assigned.
• Develops and maintains project plans; provides project status reports; records time spent on projects to meet cost recovery requirements; maintains and tracks accounts assigned to projects or programs.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

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This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code 51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information. UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status.