Applications Architect

At Cooper University Health Care, our commitment to providing extraordinary health care begins with our team. Our extraordinary professionals are continuously discovering clinical innovations and enhanced access to the most up-to-date facilities, equipment, technologies and research protocols. We have a commitment to our employees to provide competitive rates and compensation programs. Cooper offers full and part-time employees a comprehensive benefits program, including health, dental, vision, life, disability, and retirement. We also provide attractive working conditions and opportunities for career growth through professional development.

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This position is responsible for overseeing the applications portfolio to ensure systems architecture, design, and strategy meets and supports business, functional, and technology requirements.

Ensures ease of maintenance, application performance, and compatibility with new and existing systems. Identifies and documents all integration points across the applications portfolio for new and existing systems, including all third-party vendor systems.

Provides technical direction and guidance to application teams when implementing new systems, defines limitations and requirements. 

Uses critical thinking in troubleshooting, researching, and solving technically challenging problems involving integrated systems.

Collaborating with other stakeholders to ensure the architecture is aligned with business requirements.

Designs system architecture and strategy to meet business, functional, and technology requirements and develops techniques to improve system and optimize hardware utilization. 

Ensures the integration of all aspects of software solutions including upstream, downstream, and surround systems.

Provides resolutions and recommendations to leadership or analysts regarding all systems and solutions that affect clinical, revenue cycle, and business systems.

Analyzes and resolves complex issues escalated by analyst, leadership or key stakeholder providing technical knowledge and identifying solutions to update and/or create new policies that meet all necessary requirements. 

Collaborate various teams and stakeholders to build, test and maintain integration points across applications, implement and adhere to internal break/fix processes and change management policies.  

Gather requirements, provide fit gap analysis, and create effective technical solutions to support the needs of the business. 

Document limitations, risks, product/application deficiencies based on business requirements.

Collaborate with business users to identify and document current state and future state workflows for a given application or solution.

6 years minimum technical experience 

7-10 years relevant clinical, certification, and/or technical experience will be considered for those candidates who have a proven track record in the field and handling responsibilities associated with the outlined job responsibilities/summary.

High School Diploma Required

Bachelor's Degree in Business, Data Analytics, Information Technology/Systems, Healthcare Preferred 

7-10 years relevant clinical, certification, and/or technical experience will be considered in lieu of degree.

Application specific certification/proficiency within 90 days of hire if applicable.

Excellent written and verbal communication.

Ability to effectively translate IT terminology and processes with key stakeholders.