Business Analyst Supervisor, Laboratory Information Systems
UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Dallas, TX
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Bachelor's degree with major coursework in computer science, math, information systems, or other related field and six (6) years of progressively responsible information technology experience; OR
- High School diploma or GED and eight (8) years of progressively responsible and applicable information technology experience, required.
- Coordinates planning and participates in implementation of software applications or upgrades.
- Serves as context expert for application being installed or supported.
- Assists in definition and development of documentation and training manuals for applications to be used to train system users.
- Executes and ensures that project plans and schedules are defined and maintained.
- Monitors compliance with definitions of project scope, timelines, and deliverables.
- Provides regular project status reports to internal management or others as necessary.
- Provides overall responsibility in testing new applications and changes to existing applications to ensure integrity and quality of data while providing and/or assisting in training of system users.
- Provides guidance in definition and development of test scenarios.
- Ensures that application errors and related issues are documented, and their statuses are tracked in problem logs.
- Leads other business analysts in collecting, interpreting and documenting specifications required to develop new and revise existing software applications.
- Provides guidance in development of implementation of operational plans for new and existing business computer applications.
- Prepares proposals for projects as necessary.
- Defines and develops new system administrative procedures required utilizing new functionality resulting from system changes.
- Monitors system functionality and administrative procedures to ensure regulatory compliance.
- Records time spent on projects to meet cost-recovery requirements.
- Coordinates and participates in 24 hour on-call program to support clinical systems.
- Compiles complete, concise, and comprehensive policies and operation procedures to assist in communicating issues to applicable management staff.
- Assists in developing and implementing business strategies in departments to improved operational processing and productivity.
- Monitors development of specifications and establishes priorities for accomplishing design and testing of various projects.
- Coordinates or performs change management functions for projects.
- Coordinates or develops disaster recovery plans for systems supported.
- Provides direct supervision to lower-level Business Analysts; ensures employees are fully trained, responsible for own work and performs many like duties of subordinates.
- Records time spent on projects to meet cost-recovery requirements.
- Performs other duties as assigned.