Application Specialist II

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Under general supervision, independently provides an intermediate level of operational and application build expertise in completing routine and occasionally more complex assignments to meet customer goals and desired outcomes. Task and assignment focus is typically on medium to large projects, performing workflow analysis, build, and documentation in collaboration with internal and external team members.

Job Responsibilities:

Performs intermediate level design, build and implementation assignments/projects. Based on core knowledge of application and operational requirements can translate requirement/concepts into functionality.
May initiate, facilitate or lead meetings with end-user/business owner and other EIS teams.
Demonstrates independence and participation in team projects: translating customer needs, meeting deliverables, status reporting, and managing customer relationships and expectations.
Assigned to various work/projects and demonstrates an ability to successfully complete assigned tasks/assignments, proactively communicate with manager to prioritize workflow and mitigate risks, track issues and provide solution-oriented escalation, and understand project management methodologies.
Demonstrates collaboration within and across application teams.
Escalates work issues to Team Lead or Manager as needed.
Participates in re-engineering of operational work-flow processes with end-users/business owners, and maintains working level understanding of assigned departmental operations
Facilitates end-user/business owner needs into system specifications and configuration requirements.
Demonstrates technical proficiency in assigned application area. Independently manages navigation of migration paths, change control process/governance, and ticket management processes.
Works with system administrators to build and maintain application interfaces.
Builds and modifies ad-hoc SQL queries/reports for applications.
Represents application team on work groups within the department or within project scope.
Attends and represents unit on committees related to systems (OnCore CTMS, Huron Grants, IACUC, DVMax, Epic etc.)
Maintains high standards for quality application design, build, testing, and other tasks; ensures adequate documentation is provided for support and end-user training. Manage and coordinate intermediate to advanced configuration and build assignments/projects in collaboration with others.
Provides on-call support during off hours.
As needed, participates in new employee interviews and the on-boarding process.
Will be assigned as needed to train new and junior team members.

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Come join us and find out why Cedars-Sinai has been ranked as one of the top 100 best places to work in IT as ranked by 2018 Computerworld Magazine and awarded "Most Wired, Level 10" in 2019 by Chime Healthcare's Most Wired!

The Enterprise Information Services (EIS) team at Cedars-Sinai understands that true clinical transformation and the optimization of a clinical information systems implementation is fueled through the alignment of the right people, processes and technologies.

What will you be doing in this role?

Job Responsibilities:

Performs intermediate level design, build and implementation assignments/projects. Based on core knowledge of application and operational requirements can translate requirement/concepts into functionality.
May initiate, facilitate or lead meetings with end-user/business owner and other EIS teams.
Demonstrates independence and participation in team projects: translating customer needs, meeting deliverables, status reporting, and managing customer relationships and expectations.
Assigned to various work/projects and demonstrates an ability to successfully complete assigned tasks/assignments, proactively communicate with manager to prioritize workflow and mitigate risks, track issues and provide solution-oriented escalation, and understand project management methodologies.
Demonstrates collaboration within and across application teams.
Escalates work issues to Team Lead or Manager as needed.
Participates in re-engineering of operational work-flow processes with end-users/business owners, and maintains working level understanding of assigned departmental operations
Facilitates end-user/business owner needs into system specifications and configuration requirements.
Demonstrates technical proficiency in assigned application area. Independently manages navigation of migration paths, change control process/governance, and ticket management processes.
Works with system administrators to build and maintain application interfaces.
Builds and modifies ad-hoc SQL queries/reports for applications.
Represents application team on work groups within the department or within project scope.
Attends and represents unit on committees related to systems (OnCore CTMS, Huron Grants, IACUC, DVMax, Epic etc.)
Maintains high standards for quality application design, build, testing, and other tasks; ensures adequate documentation is provided for support and end-user training. Manage and coordinate intermediate to advanced configuration and build assignments/projects in collaboration with others.
Provides on-call support during off hours.
As needed, participates in new employee interviews and the on-boarding process.
Will be assigned as needed to train new and junior team members.

Internal Number: 20003422

Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major t...eaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competitive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.

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