Senior Business Analyst, IR Health Systems

Senior Business Analyst - Information Resources Health Systems

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 a world-renowned medical and research center, we are looking for strategic thinkers who will help assure the security and compliance of UT Southwestern. With a career in our Information Technology department at UT Southwestern, you will be able to help with our mission to provide exceptional clinical care and create cutting-edge research programs as you grow your IT and security career. We invite you to be a part of the UT Southwestern team where you'll discover a culture of teamwork, professionalism, and a life-changing career!

Job Summary

This position serves as the primary support for critical modules including Dragon Medical One, Epic ROI, Epic HIM, and Epic Home Health (Dorothy). This role involves comprehensive responsibilities such as application build, testing, user acceptance coordination, and training for Home Health users to ensure operational success. Additionally, this role plays a pivotal role in supporting Health Information Management, Occupational Health, Clinical Case Management, Utilization Management, and Infection Control applications across our campus and satellite locations in Richardson, Fort Worth, Park Cities, Frisco, and Plano. Epic certification in HIM or ROI is required. Certification in at least one other Epic module (Ambulatory and/or Inpatient) is preferred.

Experience and Education

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, computer science, or other related field and five (5) years business systems and/or project experience with exposure to systems or project development and testing, installation, and training.

Job Duties

• Manages projects and serves as primary customer contact.
• Defines and maintains project plan and 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.
• Assists 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 systems 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.
• Maintains and tracks accounts assigned to projects or programs.
• Develops and maintains project plans.
• Provides project status reports.
• Records time spent on projects to meet cost-recovery requirements.
• May supervise lower level analysts.
• 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.