Associate Application Analyst

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Organization:

SC Systems

Job Summary:

JOB SUMMARY
Assists in supporting one or more healthcare, administrative, or financial products or applications including day-to-day operational issues, break/fix, configuration, maintenance, upgrades and on-call rotations with some guidance.

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Designs, builds, installs, configures, and/or develops software to support clinical, administrative, financial and operational workflows.
• Analyzes clinical, administrative, financial or operational workflows supported by the assigned products and their relationship to the technical environment in which they operate.
• May perform analysis and design of supporting technical infrastructures.
• Supports clinical, administrative, financial, revenue, or operational implementations for assigned products which may also include testing and QA, reporting, product life cycle, communication/collaboration with customers and vendors, and training users.
• The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.
TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES
• Business Knowledge (Fundamental Awareness): Possesses a fundamental knowledge of the industry. Has experience in one or more of the lines of business. Is familiar with the competition.
• Product Knowledge (Fundamental Awareness): Has a general working knowledge of the product and of key product terminology. Some training, direct exposure, light experience, or past experience working with the product.
• Problem Management (Fundamental Awareness): Has light experience, training, direct exposure, or past experience working with Incident Tracking and Problem Reporting. Is familiar with the Company's problem report format, as well as problem tracking procedures and tools.
• Testing (Fundamental Awareness): Learns to execute pre-designed program test data, load testing, and ensures validity of data passed among programs. Learns to use basic quality assurance processes, tools, and scripts for testing purposes.
• Configuration Management and Planning (Fundamental Awareness): Possesses fundamental knowledge of configuration management. Learns to apply changes and develop new functions based on understanding of the design of the system. Follows prescribed processes and guidelines established by the department to implement changes and develop new functions. Learns to develop simple configuration management plans.
• Technical Analysis (Fundamental Awareness): New to most/all assigned products/ systems. Learns to analyze and develop solutions to minimally complex clinical, administrative, financial, operational, and technical issues related to assigned product(s). Gains experience in design, build, configure, and install efforts to meet business needs. Successfully handles simple break/fix service issues.

Our professional administrative functions include critical supporting roles in information technology and informatics, finance, administration, legal and community affairs, human resources, communications and marketing, development, facilities, and many more.

At our growing health system, we support each other and encourage excellence among all who are part of our workforce. High-achieving employees stay at Vanderbilt Health for professional growth, appreciation of benefits, and a sense of community and purpose.

Core Accountabilities:

Organizational Impact: Delivers job responsibilities that impact own job area/team with some guidance. Problem Solving/ Complexity of work: Uses existing procedures, research and analysis to solve standard job related problems that may require some judgement. Breadth of Knowledge: Requires subject matter knowledge within a professional area to meet job requirements. Team Interaction: Individually contributes to project/ work teams.

Core Capabilities :

Supporting Colleagues: - Develops Self and Others: Continuously improves own skills by identifyi