As one of the nation's leaders in quality health care for over 55 years, Kaiser Permanente is dedicated to enhancing health care delivery through state-of-the-art information tools and top-notch talent. The experts at Kaiser Permanente Information Technology are at the heart of that mission and you can be one of them. If you are excited about working with cutting edge technology and have the right blend of creativity and experience, consider the following opportunity within our Care Delivery Portfolio.
The Care Delivery portfolio focuses on clinical services including electronic medical records, chart management, laboratory services, clinical reference, medical imaging, pharmacy, and patient care. We deliver services and solutions that improve lives, enable affordable care, and strategically differentiate us in the marketplace. We will be the standard against which others are measured-one with true passion for our people, our members, and our customers.
We are looking for a Lead Programmer Analyst to join our Application Support Services (Cerner Millennium & CoPath Plus) team.
Essential Functions:
- Demonstrated ability to independently develop advanced concepts, techniques andstandards.
- Demonstrated ability as a functional expert and a technology leader.
- Demonstrated ability as a contributor to the development of innovative principles andideas.
- Experience in working independently and in coaching/ mentoring colleagues.
- Demonstrated knowledge of confidentiality of medical information.
- Strong system analysis and design skills.
- Demonstrated excellence in troubleshooting skills.
- Demonstrated experience working with laboratory instruments and their functions.
- Experience installing and maintaining a Cerner Millennium database/dictionarypreferred.
- Demonstrated communication skills with a variety of technical, clinical and management skills.
- Demonstrated documentation skills.
- Demonstrated application system acceptance testing skills.
- Working knowledge of HL7 interfaces between LIS/Ancillary System and HIS.
- Strong analytical ability and interpersonal skills to communicate with clients,other IT staff and vendors.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in related field and/or 4 years of equivalent work experience.
- A minimum of 6 years of experience in development of new programs/applications or maintaining and/or supporting existing programs/systems.
- 6+ years of technical experience in a fast paced, Information Technology Department consisting of a combination of staff and contractors.
- Significant experiencein Laboratory Information Systems, Specifically Cerner Millennium.
- 6+years experience with personal computers, particularly with database, spreadsheet, and/or word processing software
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Windows and Office products and networking concepts
- Professional experience in leading a team on all aspects application/software development and production support activities.
- Thorough knowledge of policies, practices and systems used.
- Demonstrates proven facilitation, delegation and negotiation skills.
- Complete understanding and application of principles, concepts, practices and standards.
- Must have excellent verbal and writing skills.
- Broad application of principles, theories and concepts in information technology and programming, plus working knowledge of other related fields.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Cerner CoPath Anatomic Information System support experience preferred
- Sunquest Laboratory Information System support experience preferred
- Familiarity with healthcare regulatory requirements
- Recent attendance at clinical laboratory information systems continuing educationprograms preferred.
- Enterprise Change Management applications (Remedy)
- Application Lifecycle management tools (Borland StarTeam, Caliber)
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.