Epic Beaker & EpicCare Link - Application Analyst

Epic Beaker & Epic Care Link - Application Analyst at Exact Sciences summary:

The Application Analyst supports the design, configuration, upgrades, and improvements of business systems within healthcare technology platforms, ensuring alignment with business needs and system performance. They serve as a primary contact for application end-users, troubleshooting issues, conducting impact analysis, and collaborating with stakeholders to optimize workflows. The role requires strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills in a hybrid work environment supporting oncology-related software solutions.

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Position Overview

The Application Analyst will work on business systems design, configuration, upgrades, and improvements for assigned technology platforms. As a primary support contact for application end-users, the Application Analyst will work to identify issues that arise in the application area, as well as issues that impact other application teams, and work to resolve them. The Application Analyst will perform impact analysis of desired changes, build and test systems changes, and identify areas of improvement associated with platform performance and opportunities to enable business processes and requirements.

This is a hybrid role and will be based in our Madison, WI office location. Relocation assistance provided to those not local to the area and willing to relocate.

Essential Duties

Include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Responsible for business systems design and configuration, upgrades, and improvements for low complexity applications using established processes and procedures.
• Estimate and assess impact of requested changes to assigned business system and/or platform.
• Guide workflow design, configure and test system changes, and analyze technical issues.
• Develop new processes and procedures in partnership with leadership and business teams.
• Create and maintain technical documentation.
• Contribute to peer design and code reviews.
• Identify issues that arise in the application area, as well as issues that impact other application teams, and work to resolve them.
• Create and maintain system documentation.
• Liaise with business systems stakeholders and software vendor’s implementation staff to ensure alignment of business needs with the delivery of system changes.
• Develop an understanding of operational needs to set the direction for the organization's workflows; proactively identify opportunities to improve business workflow with technology improvements.
• Help develop, document, and participate in trainings and work with end users.
• Troubleshoot problems and questions, and provide regular updates on status.
• Provide end-user production support for issues entered into issue tracking systems.
• Review the status of projects and issues with project leadership.
• Demonstrate flexibility with respect to changing end-user business needs.
• Apply strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability and willingness to take ownership of work activities and ensure that they are done in a timely, accurate, and efficient manner.
• Ability and willingness to recognize assignments or tasks that need to be completed, to seek out additional assignments or tasks, and to help others.
• Ability to communicate information clearly and concisely with project leadership, subject matter experts, and key stakeholders.
• Ability to persevere in difficult situations, overcome obstacles, and reach high levels of performance when faced with stressful work situations and time pressures.
• Ability and willingness to learn new software applications, as needed.
• Apply strong analytical skills, business intuition, and organizational ability.
• Apply excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to operate in a cross-functional and complex matrix environment.
• Ability to be adaptable,…