Architect EHR Applications

Job Details

Design, implement, and maintain integration solutions that align with architectural standards and business requirements. Analyze workflows to identify optimization opportunities, recommend interoperability improvements, and ensure seamless system connectivity. Develop and execute integrated testing strategies, including detailed test plans and defect management, to validate functionality and readiness for deployment. Establish and update best practices for integration design and documentation, ensuring scalability, compliance, and accessibility. Collaborate with cross-functional teams—including IT, operations, finance, and business units—to resolve operational issues, facilitate root cause analysis, and implement process improvements that enhance efficiency and prevent recurrence. Act as a liaison between technical and non-technical stakeholders to drive timely resolutions and maintain organizational standards.

Job Description

Job Duties

• Act as a liaison between technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure timely resolution, maintain compliance with organizational standards, and enhance overall operational efficiency
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams—including operations, IT, finance, and business units—to identify, analyze, and recommend solutions to enhance productivity and optimization. Responsibilities include facilitating root cause analysis, coordinating corrective actions, and implementing process improvements to prevent recurrence.
• Establish and update best practices for integration design, implementation, and maintenance to ensure consistency, scalability, and compliance with organizational standards.
• Coordinate integrated testing strategies that validate system functionality. Develops detailed test plans outlining objectives, scope, test cases, and success criteria.
• Design, implement, and maintain integration solutions that align with architectural standards and business requirements
• Analyze workflows to identify optimization opportunities, recommend interoperability improvements, and ensure seamless system connectivity.
• Conduct comprehensive analysis with the application teams to review existing workflows for new optimization efforts. Develop actionable recommendations to enhance interoperability, including standardizing protocols and aligning workflows.

Minimum Qualifications

• High School Diploma/GED
• 5 years Related work experience
• Large Hospital/IDN Information Technology Experience and/or Healthcare Operations Experience
• EPIC Application Certification plus one additional Primary or Secondary EPIC Certification
• Large Project Management
• Integrated Systems Architecture Planning, Development and Implementation
• Technical Collaboration (e.g. Interfaces, Hardware and Reporting)
• Coaching and Mentoring
• Triaging On-call/DR/BC
• Budget management
• EPIC Certification - Epic Systems Upon Hire

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Healthcare or related field
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Healthcare or related field
• 4 years Direct Epic build on current software version or
• 7 years Progressive experience in Information Services, or a combination blend of Information Services and direct healthcare experience.
• PMP - Project Management Professional - Project Management Institute Upon Hire

Work Shift

Workday Day (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type

Regular

Employee Entity

Thomas Jefferson University

Primary Location Address

1100 Virginia Drive, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research.