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Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. RWJBarnabas Health is a premier health care destination providing patient-centered, high-quality academic medicine. The Application Lead is responsible for leading the functional team in planning and executing projects related to application build, implementation, and support, while ensuring the system meets organizational needs and managing vendor communications.


Responsibilities

  • Defining Systems Requirements:
  • Collaborating to understand and execute the application architecture and integration
  • Serving as a business unit expert to set the direction for the organization's workflows by attending site visits, validation sessions, and other integrated sessions
  • Investigating end-user requirements and needs, applying potential solutions and pressure-testing solutions using an agile method
  • Analyzing data conversion needs
  • Preparing details of specifications as needed
  • Achieving in-depth knowledge of the software and serving as a bridge between end-users and vendor implementation staff
  • Understanding choices in application specifications
  • Assessing implementation strategies and the impact those strategies will have on workflows and operations
  • Analyzing new functionality in new releases to determine whether or how it should be used
  • Documenting current and new workflows and understanding how workflow decisions translate to application configurations
  • Performing in-depth analyses of workflows, data collection, report details, and other technical issues associated with the use of the software
  • Project Leadership:
  • Serving as a liaison between end-user’s workflow needs and implementation staff
  • Maintaining regular communication with vendor representatives, including participating in weekly project team meetings
  • Working with vendor representatives, RWJBH’s business community, and end-users to ensure the system meets RWJBH’s business needs in regard to the project deliverables and timeline
  • Responding to vendor's technical questions
  • Maintaining rules for how each new version is released
  • Communicating regularly with other Application Leads to resolve issues, conflicts and application integrations
  • Communicating changes to workflows to Principal Trainers
  • Ensuring that appropriate subject matter experts are involved in design, configuration and testing sessions
  • Holding weekly communications with team members to discuss the status of deliverables, shared issues, end-user concerns, budget, and upcoming milestones
  • Working in conjunction with manager to provide feedback for team member performance
  • Issue Resolution and Project Management:
  • Identifying issues that arise in the application area as well as issues that impact other application teams and working to resolve them. This also involves working closely with the technical support on issues of install choices, master file and category list set up, synonyms and preference lists, etc
  • Managing and executing identified mitigation plans
  • Coordinating test plans and new systems, complying with version upgrades and system modifications
  • Reviewing the status of projects and issues on an ongoing basis with leadership, which includes the creation of status reports
  • Demonstrating self-direction and ability to manage integrated project deliveries
  • Supervising basic issues and roadblocks, escalating issues as needed
  • Provides recommendations based on industry best practice
  • Plans Project and workgroup build activity oversight, assures quick escalation of build decision incompatibilities and risks
  • Develops future state materials
  • Collaborates with team members across the department as well as operational staff
  • Supporting application governance needs, including development of business case for decisions
  • Maintaining version control of workflows, issues/risks log, and decisions tracker
  • Communicating with leaders to determine necessary escalations
  • Executing Application Build:
  • Facilitating the development of integrated workflows by working closely with the project team, subject matter experts and technical leads to define processes that cross applications and functional areas
  • Guiding workflow design, building and testing the system, and analyzing other technical issues associated with Epic software
  • Identifying and implementing requested changes to the system and general system enhancement needs
  • Assisting in the building of new data sets and testing of new functionality
  • Developing and documenting internal procedures that will be used in conjunction with the applications
  • Prioritizing and implementing changes requested for the system
  • Coordinating software updates and changes with users
  • Working with users on the sharing of data, category lists, etc
  • Setting standards for naming and numbering conventions and security classifications
  • Reviewing new vendor software releases and updates to help determine which features will be utilized
  • Assisting and supporting training teams with necessary build, content, and documentation, as needed
  • Providing go-live support for users on new applications, including functionality
  • Providing on-call support for application through go-live and post go-live

Skills

  • Associate's degree with six or more years of relevant work experience
  • Strong assertiveness skills and ability to manage conflict in a variety of situations
  • Superior organizational and people management skills
  • Demonstrated ability to align and motivate key process stakeholders, including nurses, physicians, and other clinical/administrative staff
  • Demonstrated ability to interact with multidisciplinary teams
  • Certification in Epic HIM
  • Release Information
  • Coding & Abstracting
  • Deficiency Tracking
  • Applicant is expected to maintain certification as current by completing New Version Training (NVT), as applicable
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience
  • 6+ years prior system build experience
  • 3+ years of relevant experience functioning in a leadership capacity with leading teams and workgroups

Benefits

  • Paid Time Off including Vacation, Holidays, and Sick Time
  • Retirement Plans
  • Medical and Prescription Drug Insurance
  • Dental and Vision Insurance
  • Disability and Life Insurance
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Student Loan Planning Support
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Wellness Programs
  • Voluntary Benefits (e.g., Pet Insurance)
  • Community and Volunteer Opportunities
  • Discounts Through our Partners such as NJ Devils, NJ PAC, and Verizon

Company Overview

  • RWJBarnabas Health is New Jersey’s largest and most comprehensive academic health system, caring for more than 5 million people annually. It was founded in 2020, and is headquartered in Newark, New Jersey, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.rwjbarnabashealthcareers.org/.

    • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • RWJBarnabas Health has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2023, 1 in 2021, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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