Systems Analyst - Intermediate

UPMC•Pittsburgh, PA

8h•Hybrid

About The Position

UPMC is hiring a Systems Analyst-Intermediate to join their Essential Solutions IT Department. This opportunity offers work flexibility, working with clinical providers, and networking opportunities. If you have technical proficiency, analytical and problem-solving skills, and business acumen skills, APPLY NOW! Work Location: Hybrid position with an onsite requirement as needed to support our team’s operational and clinical partners. The on-site requirement is typically once per week. The home location is the Quantum One building at 2 Hotmetal Street on the Southside in Pittsburgh, PA. Work Hours: Typically, 8am to 4pm Monday – Friday; however, there will be times when work outside of these hours is necessary to get tasks and projects completed. The selected candidate will need to participate in the team on-call rotation. Purpose: Under the general direction of the management team and senior staff, the Systems Analyst - Intermediate provides experienced analytical services, defining requirements, developing and/or maintaining computer applications/systems, and providing services to meet client IT and business needs.

Requirements

Typically has 2+ years' experience with modern technology and application support through education or practical experience.
Highly driven and self-motivated to meet expectations.
Ability to work independently and in a team-based environment.
Demonstrates thorough understanding of information technology fundamental tools and concepts (SDLC) of one of the information technology professional disciplines and applies that understanding to make independent practical contributions to IT work within a UPMC department or function.
Completes on-going training on-the-job, through courses, self-study, certifications and/or advanced degrees to maintain and enhance technical and business capabilities.
Additionally, this position may be required to maintain a standby status as part of a rotation within the team. This requires 24 hours per day, 7 days per week availability during the standby period. The frequency varies based upon the number of colleagues in the rotation.
Top 3 Skills Needed:
Technical Proficiency – understanding networking, system architecture, basic database management, and basic server administration.
Analytical and Problem Solving - be able to analyze issues and processes to identify issues and devise effective solutions.
Business Acumen-understanding of business and clinical operations and processes.

Nice To Haves

Desirable prior work would include some level of PC support (including mobile devices) or medical hardware support and some level of systems analyst work.
Candidate needs to be project oriented.
Proactive in delivering support and works well on a team yet can perform well independently.
A background that includes basic Epic is desirable for now and the future.
Current or Past UPMC employee or contractor.

Responsibilities

The main job responsibilities are support of PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) and Food & Nutrition applications.
Documentation: Complete documentation/flow charting of system builds and maintain team's existing documentation independently. Responsible for validating current documentation. Extract and document customer/business requirements and needs for use by enterprise architecture and engineering teams (network, system, and software).
Second and Third Level Support (Including Maintenance Activities): Independently triage and resolve level 1 and level 2 support issues. Escalate level 3 support issues accordingly.
Project Management: Create and contributes to project tasks and milestones. Update all project management and time tracking tools accordingly. Ability to take full ownership of a project.
SDLC (System Development Life Cycle): Have an intermediate understanding of the application development life cycle. Ability to apply those principles to day-to-day work.
Data Confidentiality/Security: Maintain confidentiality of sensitive information at all times.
Data Quality: Maintain data quality at all times.
Vendor Relationships: Interact with vendors (technical issues, project initiatives) under the direction of more experienced team members as necessary. Assist with issue escalation where applicable.
Report Writing/Analysis: Write, analyze and make modifications to reports either independently for basic requests or under the direction of more experienced team members for more complex requests.
End User Training: Create and review existing training documentation. Facilitate high-level user training sessions independently.
Process Improvement: Create and update processes. Ability to contribute to process improvement efforts.
Application Upgrades and Implementation: Review and validate functionality of application upgrades and implementations. Report back on any problems. Identify new functionality and/or hardware requirements as assigned. Ability to create test plans.
System Integration: Complete assigned tasks related to system integration. Validate testing. Ability to modify existing test plans.
Communication: Responsible for demonstrating appropriate, clear, concise, and effective written and oral communications in all interactions to build relationships and accomplish day to day work and projects.
Interactions with Others: Successfully completes projects, tasks, and initiatives by embracing a team-first approach. Works in collaboration with team and offers feedback, where appropriate, to complete individual and group efforts. Shows the ability to adjust and be flexible to change by adapting approach when necessary. Mentors less experienced staff.
Self-Development: Responsible for continuous self-study, trainings, partnering with more senior members of team, and/or seeking out opportunities to broaden scope to stay up to date with industry and organizational trends. Seeks feedback from senior team members for development and effectively incorporates feedback into work and behaviors.
Performs in accordance with system-wide competencies/behaviors.
Performs other duties as assigned.