Senior IT Consultant

Primary City/State:

Phoenix, Arizona

Department Name:

Digital Hlth Transform-BPN

Work Shift:

Day

Job Category:

Information Technology

Within Banner Health Corporate, you will have the opportunity to apply your unique experience and expertise in support of a nationally-recognized healthcare leader. We offer stimulating and rewarding careers in a wide array of disciplines. Whether your background is in Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Managed Care Programs or Public Relations, you'll find many options for contributing to our award-winning patient care.

POSITION SUMMARY

This position is a high-level strategic contributor with expertise in selected business or healthcare processes and is responsible for formulating system scope and objectives relative to the company’s requirements. Acts independently providing knowledge, guidance, research, and fact-finding expertise to define, design and modify specifications and processes of complex information systems. Responsible for establishing system documentation standards and quality assurance methodologies for systems and applications, overseeing planning, tactical execution, and integration of initiatives.

CORE FUNCTIONS

1. Translates emerging customer needs and technologies into actionable business terms and associated plans. Contributes to the prioritization of all enhancement requests or initiatives to all electronic channels. Assures that the proper business case has been provided and the solution fits with overall strategic direction.

2. Develops solutions by applying accepted processes and/or creates new approaches to leverage technology from abstract information. Reviews and consults on design and content of all digital projects to ensure consistency across electronic platforms, efficiency and lack of redundancy, appropriateness of statistical analysis, and relevance to business and strategic objectives.

3. Provides mentorship to junior team members in the areas of strategy, external research and benchmarking, best-practice analysis, business analysis, and ultimately implementation of electronic solutions to our customers. Supports end user customers and vendors by assembling request for information/proposal (RFI/RFP), return on investment (ROI) calculations, capital or operating budgets data or other high level strategic specifications and documents.

4. Establishes and manages an effective dashboard of metrics that communicates objectives of initiatives and the progress towards specific goals. Oversees the effective, correct, and consistent application of data analysis and decision making based on fact for all information feeds into the innovation process for respective areas. Promotes the use of data analysis and fact-based decision-making. Educates and influences stakeholders on the most effective use of electronic channel options from both a short-term and long-term perspective. Maintains a significant role in the creation of strategic technology plans.

5. Guides the design, implementation and maintenance of complex application and system specifications and processes. Participates and may lead taskforces to plan, implement, and coordinate facility activities to maximize information technology service quality, effectiveness, and efficiency. Identifies, investigates, tracks, and resolves complex project, system or application errors ensuring the solution is timely and of acceptable quality.

6. Designs and administers complex standards and policies regarding application and end user customer documentation. Ensures that department and company standards are implemented and consistently adhered to.

7. Provides high level expertise to the development of fully integrated testing scenarios. Ensures that the information systems across multiple levels and states and their relationships are considered and are part of the comprehensive testing plans.

8. Maintains current professional and technical knowledge relating to the healthcare industry by attending educational workshops/conferences, establishing personal networks, and/or maintaining relevant certification or licensure as business needs require.

9. Foresees and resolves customer issues and provide solutions that meet the needs of the organization. Resolves conflicting objectives and priorities to stay within budget guidelines. High level responsibility for selected information applications or systems. Performs work in a fast-paced multi-tasked environment where there may be conflicting priorities or tight deadlines. Participates