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 Technical Application Specialist to join our team.
Essential Functions:
- Ability to work on multiple tasks with little to no direct supervision.
- Participate in 24x7on-call pager/cell support rotation
- Diagnose and solve complex/technical problems.
- Monitor various application components to ensure availability.
- Communicate with key business partner and KPIT team members
- Use Remedy for issue acknowledgement/tracking and change Mgmt.
- Document creation and maintenance for all primary and backup responsibilities
- Analysis of requests and writing queries/reports using PL/SQL and other extraction tools
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in MIS, CS or related field and/or a minimum of 4 years of equivalent work experience
- A minimum of 8 years of professional experience in analysis of complex business requirements, systems upgrades, workflows and application capabilities.
- 3+ years experience with Healthcare, CVIS / Cardio PACS experience or Radiology PACS.
- Hemodynamic support experience
- Relational database experience such as Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase.
- Demonstrated problem solving skills. Required 4 - 10 years.
- 3+ years experience using interface standards of HL7 and DICOM.
- Experience using MS Project and Visio.
- Solid communication skills (written, verbal).
Preferred Qualifications:
- Knowledge of clinical workflows in the healthcare industry.
- Knowledge of business / operational area supported by application.
- Experience with implementing and supporting Cardiology PACS, Hemodynamic systems is preferred but not required.
- Data analytics experience.
- Experience analyzing healthcare and/or financial data, Medical Imaging preferred.
- Experience with data quality procedures.
- Project deployment experience.
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.