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Primary City/State:

Arizona, Arizona

Department Name:

IT Bus Apps Insurance Division

Work Shift:

Day

Job Category:

Information Technology

Additional Job Description

Innovation and highly trained staff. The Information Technology professionals at Banner Health are utilizing cutting edge technology to change health care for the better. If you’re ready to change lives, we want to hear from you.

Banner Health is seeking a seasoned professional for Population Health Applications team . The team serves Banner Plans & Networks (BPN) by implementing population health applications for multiple stakeholders across Banner, BPN, Population health service organization (PHSO) teams, and multiple provider Networks. BPN has over 1 Million members who are part of Commercial, Medicare Advantage, and Medicaid population. These members receive care from multiple provider networks within and outside of AZ. The candidate will work closely with clinical staff, senior leadership and providers across the continuum of care to understand workflows and define solutions with multiple vendor partners.

This is the role of a hands-on technical individual with with 5-7 years of experience in product management. In this role, you will participates in defining and designing IT solutions with internal stakeholders and vendors. In this role as an Senior IT Consultant you will also build and maintain roadmap for multiple IT applications while keeping the business workflows and goals at the core of these plans. The day in life includes engaging senior leaders of BPN to enable the technical solutions to fulfill business and IT goals. A significant part of the day is spent on building vendor relationships and helping them align with Banner's technology vision & strategy. In this role you will facilitate and conduct business requirements, testing, installations, training, troubleshooting and ongoing support for several SaaS based applications. An ideal candidate will have experience working with large/enterprise care management solutions from vendors, and agile product management and product ownership experience. Collaboration and Analytical skills are a must for a successful.

Your pay and benefits (Total Rewards) are important components of your Journey at Banner Health. Banner Health offers a variety of benefit plans to help you and your family. We provide health and financial security options, so you can focus on being the best at what you do and enjoying your life.

Within Banner Health Corporate, you will have the opportunity to apply your unique experience and expertise in support of a nationally-recognized healthcare leader. We offer stimulating and rewarding careers in a wide array of disciplines. Whether your background is in Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Managed Care Programs or Public Relations, you'll find many options for contributing to our award-winning patient care.

POSITION SUMMARY

This position is a high-level strategic contributor with expertise in selected business or healthcare processes and is responsible for formulating system scope and objectives relative to the company’s requirements. Acts independently providing knowledge, guidance, research, and fact-finding expertise to define, design and modify specifications and processes of complex information systems. Responsible for establishing system documentation standards and quality assurance methodologies for systems and applications, overseeing planning, tactical execution, and integration of initiatives.

CORE FUNCTIONS

1. Translates emerging customer needs and technologies into actionable business terms and associated plans. Contributes to the prioritization of all enhancement requests or initiatives to all electronic channels. Assures that the proper business case has been provided and the solution fits with overall strategic direction.

2. Develops solutions by applying accepted processes and/or creates new approaches to leverage technology from abstract information. Reviews and consults on design and content of all digital projects to ensure consistency across electronic platforms, efficiency and lack of redundancy, appropriateness of statistical analysis, and relevance to business and strategic objectives.

3. Provides mentorship to junior team members in the areas of strategy, external research and benchmarking, best-practice analysis, business analysis, and ultimately implementation of electronic solutions to our customers. Supports end user customers and vendors by assembling request for information/proposal (RFI/RFP), return on investment (ROI) calculations, capital or operating budgets data or other high level strategic specifications and documents.

4. Establishes and manages an effective dashboard of metrics that communicates objectives of initiatives and the progress towards specific goals. Oversees the effective, correct, and consistent application of data analysis and decision making based on fact for all information feeds into the innovation process for respective areas. Promotes the use of data analysis and fact-based decision-making. Educates and influences stakeholders on the most effective use of electronic channel options from both a short-term and long-term perspective. Maintains a significant role in the creation of strategic technology plans.

5. Guides the design, implementation and maintenance of complex application and system specifications and processes. Participates and may lead taskforces to plan, implement, and coordinate facility activities to maximize information technology service quality, effectiveness, and efficiency. Identifies, investigates, tracks, and resolves complex project, system or application errors ensuring the solution is timely and of acceptable quality.

6. Designs and administers complex standards and policies regarding application and end user customer documentation. Ensures that department and company standards are implemented and consistently adhered to.

7. Provides high level expertise to the development of fully integrated testing scenarios. Ensures that the information systems across multiple levels and states and their relationships are considered and are part of the comprehensive testing plans.

8. Maintains current professional and technical knowledge relating to the healthcare industry by attending educational workshops/conferences, establishing personal networks, and/or maintaining relevant certification or licensure as business needs require.

9. Foresees and resolves customer issues and provide solutions that meet the needs of the organization. Resolves conflicting objectives and priorities to stay within budget guidelines. High level responsibility for selected information applications or systems. Performs work in a fast-paced multi-tasked environment where there may be conflicting priorities or tight deadlines. Participates in meetings, presentations, visioning sessions, strategic and planning sessions, implementation activities, and supports functions company-wide.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Must possess strong knowledge as normally obtained through the completion of a bachelor’s degree in related field, or equivalent combination of relevant education, technical, business and healthcare experience. Must also have progressive experience in a healthcare environment typically achieved in seven plus years.

Must demonstrate substantial knowledge of information technology, healthcare, and/or operations for an assigned specialty area. Needs significant proven leadership experience in large scale project planning, reporting, and budgeting. May need experience with specific IT process methodology depending on assigned areas of responsibility.

Requires exceptional communication, presentation, and negotiation skills to engage technical and non-technical audiences. Requires leadership skills with ability to lead, communicate, and interact across facilities and at various levels. Successful candidate will have skills and experience to recruit, mentor, motivate, evaluate, and retain staff.

As is typical in this industry, variable shifts and hours and carrying/responding to a pager may be required.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Additional related education and/or experience preferred.

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