IT Business Analyst

Vanderbilt University Medical Center • Nashville, TN

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Located in Nashville, Tennessee, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, aiming to change the world. VUMC is committed to an environment where expertise is valued, knowledge expanded, and abilities challenged, fostering a community where everyone can thrive and uniqueness is celebrated. The mission of Vanderbilt is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research. This IT Business Analyst role is a mid to senior level professional position responsible for aligning business needs with technology solutions. The role involves analyzing, documenting, and translating business requirements into functional specifications to ensure IT Systems support organizational goals. This position gathers and prioritizes requirements, translating business needs for technical teams, facilitating communication, and ensuring compliance with VUMC's and regulatory standards. This role supports clinical, administrative, operational, IT development infrastructure, and data analytic teams. VUMC IT provides hardware, software, and service solutions for the entire Medical Center, assisting with hardware support, software, and application support and services to enhance security and protection of information across over 40,000 workstations. The professional administrative functions include critical supporting roles in information technology and informatics, finance, administration, legal and community affairs, human resources, communications and marketing, development, facilities, and many more. Vanderbilt Health is a growing health system that supports its employees, encouraging excellence and offering professional growth, benefits, and a sense of community and purpose. VUMC's vision is to be the world leader in advancing personalized health, with a mission to personalize the patient experience through a caring spirit and distinctive capabilities. VUMC is the largest private employer in Middle Tennessee, employing more than 28,000 people across inpatient and outpatient clinical care, research, graduate medical education, and critical supporting roles. The health system includes over 1,700 licensed hospital beds across multiple hospitals and hundreds of outpatient clinic and surgical locations. VUMC offers unique and specialized services such as a Level 1 Trauma Center, a highly experienced Transplant Center, a National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, Lung Institute, and Burn Center. Its robust research enterprise consistently ranks high in NIH grant funding, and it is consistently recognized among the nation’s best hospitals by US News and World Report.

Requirements

• Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate knowledge of Business Requirements Definition in practical applications of moderate difficulty.
• Able to identify potential problems through basic analysis and develop appropriate test cases to assure effective testing of the application.
• Can analyze a Business Requirements Definition to determine processing flow, testing scenarios and user requirements.
• Familiar with the steps necessary to complete a Business Requirements Definition for more advanced systems.
• Has written an entire feasibility study for a small system or has written several descriptive sections of studies for a large system, such as the statement of the business problem and business function description.
• Has participated in detailed analysis through meeting with users.
• Has an understanding of how to formulate cost of an operation.
• Understands customers' business operations beyond single issues driving a project.
• Demonstrates the ability to apply functional business knowledge to successfully meet work objectives.
• Has worked closely with knowledgeable users and customers in meeting their business needs.
• Demonstrates a good sense of the business when dealing with others.
• Critically evaluates the customer implications of technological advances.
• Knows and monitors the competition.
• Able to interpret business data.
• Takes basic business concepts and turns them into meaningful requirements.
• Participates in reengineering of processes.
• Communicates with customers and users to determine what their requirements are.
• Develops and specifies requirements in enough detail to allow them to be successfully implemented by a project team.
• Designs screens and reports for basic business systems.
• Relevant Work Experience
• 2 years of experience
• Bachelor's degree

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership, expertise and guidance on strategic business change projects.
• Provides business analysis on projects including engagement and stakeholder management.
• Leads business change and defines business requirements and processes on projects.

Benefits

• comprehensive benefits package which may include health, disability, retirement and/or wellness offerings to enhance your well-being and professional growth

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees