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Application Functional Lead
Houston, TX, US
We are searching for an Application Functional Lead – someone who works well in a fast-paced setting. In this position, you will provide technical services to analyze, design, and deliver clinical/business solutions while lending expertise to activities related to answering technical consulting questions, individually or as part of a team. Serves as a subject matter expert associated with content, processes, and procedures of enterprise applications.
The ideal candidate will have intermediate or above SQL experience. Ours is a fast-paced environment and you will be responsible for the deliverables.
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Job Duties & Responsibilities
· Project Management Skills/lead on Projects
· Flexible/Priorities change daily (escalations/emergencies)
· Support Applications
· Advise the junior staff on team
· Analyzes current business practices, user needs, and workflow processes
· Develops architecture-specific deliverables that map customer business requirements into complete information systems or operational solutions
· Contributes details to the overall plan within the scope of experience and skills
· 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 design analysis with users to determine the configuration for the user interface
· Identifies and documents data sources, recipients, and interfaces that need to be developed to support data collection
· Documents the design decisions in an accurate and testable method for use by developers and database analysts
· Assists with the design of user procedure
· Analyzes clinical and business use of existing systems to identify the problem to be resolved and define system applications or process improvements
· Recommends modifications to application design or current procedures to maximize advantages of existing resources
· Implements modifications to the production systems to accommodate new or changing requirements
· Provides emergency support in some cases after hours for malfunctioning systems
· Updates and maintains support documentation
· Identifies and recommends tools and techniques using best practices/industry standards to support the strategic direction and to assist in deploying appropriate business initiatives
· Identifies alternative ways to utilize the application and technologies for projects that are impacted by performance and/or business issues
· Stays current on technology standards, information management, development methods, and emerging 3rd party software through independent research to advise on technology and leverage industry best practices for platform design/development
· Researches, analyzes, evaluates, and makes recommendations on and advocates for the selection of vendors, products, tools, services, protocols, infrastructure components, and standards that will support the IS strategy
Skills & Requirements
· H.S. Diploma or GED
· 8 years’ experience in application design and implementation
· EHR/Healthcare Experience preferred
About Texas Children’s
Founded in 1996, Texas Children’s Health Plan is the nation's first health maintenance organization (HMO) created just for children. We provide STAR/Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to pregnant women, teens, children and adults in Houston and surrounding areas. Currently, the Health Plan has more than 375,000 members who receive care from our network of more than 1,100 primary care physicians, 3,200 specialists, and 70 hospitals. Texas Children's Health Plan is also the largest combined STAR/CHIP Managed Care Organization in the Harris County service area.
To join our community of 14,000+ dedicated team members, visit texaschildrenspeople.org for career opportunities.
Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.
