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The Application Analyst, reflects the mission, vision, and values of NM, adheres to the organization’s Code of Ethics and Corporate Compliance Program, and complies with all relevant policies, procedures, guidelines and all other regulatory and accreditation standards.

Northwestern Medicine Information Services drives innovative, high-value solutions to transform health care.

We are committed to supporting the relentless pursuit of better medicine by providing exceptional service to our patients and guests as well as internal clients across the organization. To ensure excellence, our team goes to extraordinary lengths to ensure that our systems work together seamlessly.

Northwestern Medicine understands that technology plays an integral role in shaping the future of health care. Information Services strategically supports the organization by:

• Leveraging AI, automation and rollout of advanced cyber controls that support digital transformation strategies
• Implementing advanced technologies in clinical and administrative areas
• Furthering development of the end user support model to help enhance modern infrastructure

Responsibilities:

• Support and maintain assigned services and systems  
• Works with team to monitor, analyze and plan upgrades 
• Monitors the production issue queue and resolves issues while maintaining our Customer Service Level Agreements.  
• Executes project tasks as assigned  
• Adheres to and enhances quality assurance standards, systems development and delivery methodologies.  
• Contributes to ongoing process to integrate end users requests with software functionality.  
• Analyzes and provides recommendations relating to application build and functionality of systems to ensure reliability for current and / or future use.  
• Demonstrates diagnostic skills and expertise to assist with problem determination and solution across the assigned NMHC distributed system IS environment.  
• Participates in on call rotation 
• Contributes to the maintenance of application/technical documentation and architecture diagrams

Required:

• 2-5 years of experience in core discipline

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree
• Knowledge of surgical workflows and certified in Epic OpTime and Anesthesia applications (or other Epic clinical applications)
• Strong time management and organizational, and critical thinking skills
• Ability to effectively prioritize and manage multiple projects and task concurrently
• Knowledge of information systems, data management, and software development methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum)
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders at all levels of the organization
• Familiarity with project management tools and software development lifecycles

Northwestern Medicine is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of age, sex, race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation or any other protected status.