Application Analyst

## Application Analyst Apply:
Individual Office Exception Approved:
United States of America :
Remote:
Full time:
Posted Today:
Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.##
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* JOB DESCRIPTION:

**** Position Overview
** At Abbott Cancer Diagnostics, we're cancer fighters. That's not a tagline, it's the reason we come to work every day. Our mission is to change lives through advances in cancer detection and treatment guidance, and ultimately to help eradicate the disease and the suffering it causes. Everything we build, including the software you'd be leading, exists to move that mission forward.

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.
** 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,…