Systems Administrator V, Applications Cerner Pathnet Integration Analyst

Kaiser Permanente • Pleasanton, CA

70d

About The Position

The Cerner Laboratory Systems Administrator is responsible for the design, implementation, oversight, and ongoing management of the software applications associated with all Laboratory platforms with ongoing hospital operations. This position is essential in supporting Care Delivery, Cerner Millennium PathNet, one of the top 13 applications utilized in care delivery. Cerner Millennium PathNet is a lab application that handles and oversees more than 150 million lab orders and processes over 400 million results each year across various KP care sites, including hospitals and clinics.

Requirements

• Minimum five (5) years experience in end-to-end application/infrastructure production support.
• Minimum two (2) years in a leadership role working with IT or operational teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Social Science, Education, Business, Health Care or related field.
• Minimum eight (8) years working in IT or operations. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Responsibilities

• Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area.
• Promotes adherence to all procedures and policies.
• Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines.
• Determines and carries out processes and methodologies.
• Coordinates and delegates resources to accomplish organizational goals.
• Partners internally and externally to make effective business decisions.
• Solves complex problems and escalates issues or risks as appropriate.
• Monitors progress and results, recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities.
• Evaluates recommendations made and influences the completion of project tasks by others.
• Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Communicates information and provides advice to drive projects forward.
• Influences team members within assigned unit and listens to performance feedback.
• Adapts to competing demands and new responsibilities.
• Provides feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentoring junior team members.
• Creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas.
• Collaborates with technical and project team leaders to resolve system problems and application-specific issues.
• Communicates with product users and suppliers to share information and identify opportunities.
• Escalates unresolved or critical issues, risks or problems to system engineers and management.
• Plans and performs complex system configuration.
• Manages the stability, availability, and performance of enterprise systems.
• Plans the maintenance, modification, and documentation of applications.
• Monitors the service of first and second level support for enterprise systems.
• Creates complex documentation of new and existing system configuration and procedural information.
• Provides complex application-oriented administration and technical support for production and non-production environments.
• Leads hardware and software changes into environments by performing impact analyses of system changes.
• Develops guidelines to prevent and/or resolve recurring problems.
• Recommends and executes complex performance tuning and optimization activities.
• Evaluates new complex application packages and identifies anticipated systems requirements for planning purposes.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Ambulatory Health Care Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree