Application Functional Lead Sr

We are searching for a Senior Application Functional Lead -- someone who works well in a fast-paced setting. In this position, you will provide lead technical services to analyze, design, and deliver clinical/business solutions while functioning as a subject matter expert to activities related to answering technical consulting questions. Serves as a subject matter expert associated with content, processes, and procedures of enterprise applications. Anticipates challenges and creates solutions.

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Job Duties & Responsibilities
•    Translates business needs into detailed requirement specifications, coordinates new development, and makes sure it is consistent and well-integrated with existing information frameworks and data structures
•    Leads and engages in business analysis, data analysis, and design analysis collaborating with business application analysts and application architects
•    Analyzes current business practices, user needs, and workflow processes, contributes details to the plan and translates customer's business problem, need, or opportunity, and designs a virtualized solution that completely and correctly addresses the business problem, needs, or opportunity
•    Facilitates enterprise systems design and architecture, manage requirement traceability information, and tracking of requirements through the stages of implementation
•    Leads the architectural design, development, deployment, and technical quality of large enterprise solutions that span multiple technologies and discipline
•    Leads complex technical data warehouse discussions on modeling, integration, and overall technology solutions and design
•    Provides leadership with measures on the effectiveness of data governance and data quality
•    Leads complex technical data architecture discussions on modeling, integration, and overall technology solutions and design. Prepares technical architectural and implementation design documents
•    Maintains systems and releases, assists with controlling and reviewing third-party vendor application releases to production
•    Updates and maintains support documentation and works closely with server and database system administrators in troubleshooting and coordinating system outages
•    Identifies alternative ways to utilize the application and technologies for projects that are impacted by performance and/or business issues.
•    Participates in departmental activities, facilitates activities with management, coaches on design principles across multiple problems/solutions under different scenarios, represents IS in discussions with other groups to develop application and data integration solutions
Skills & Requirements
•    H.S. Diploma or GED required
•    Bachelor's Degree computer science or information technology preferred
•    10 years’ experience in application design and implementation
•    Management or project leadership preferred
 

Since 1954, Texas Children’s has been leading the charge in patient care, education and research to accelerate health care for children and women around the world. When you love what you do, it truly shows in the smiles of our patient families, employees and our numerous accolades such as being consistently ranked as the best children’s hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation by U.S. News & World Report as well as recognition from Houston Business Journal as one of this city’s Best Places to Work for ten consecutive years. 

Texas Children’s comprehensive health care network includes our primary hospital in the Texas Medical Center with expertise in over 40 pediatric subspecialties; the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI); the Feigin Tower for pediatric research; Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high-risk births; Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus, a community hospital in suburban West Houston; Texas Children’s Hospital The Woodlands, the first hospital devoted to children’s care for communities north of Houston; and Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin, the new state-of-the-art facility providing world-class pediatric and maternal care to Austin and Central Texas families. We have also created Texas Children’s Health Plan, the nation’s first HMO focused on children; Texas Children’s Pediatrics, the large