Sr. Business Systems Analyst Role Description

A Senior Business Systems Analyst understands and explains business and technical issues and provides viable solutions for a given system, process or capability. This position is in the Data Governance group, which is one pillar of our Enterprise Information Management team within Ascension Data Delivery and Governance. This person will assist in the implementation and expansion of two new key platforms within Data Governance, Collibra (Data Governance Platform) and Informatica Data Quality.

This individual will be responsible for assisting in the roll out of these new platforms, discovery work to make informed decisions on prioritizing new sources to ingest, querying databases for data profiling and data quality, creating dashboards, and system integration. The associate in this role will develop processes and workflows and work closely with business stakeholders to move forward with our next phase of Data Governance maturity.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Works with customers to clarify and plan for their current and future technology needs.
• Defines new business processes/functions to support emerging capabilities
• Maps and enhances existing business processes/functions and recommends changes required to fit a tightly integrated system
• Designs and implements projects requiring systems integration, small teams and multiple technical platforms
• Assist in implementing a new Data Governance platform (Collibra)
• Assist in implementing a new Data Quality platform (Informatica Data Quality)
• Collaborates on driving improvement activities to achieve department and organizational goals
• Assumes a proactive role in driving improvement activities to achieve department and organizational goals to deliver value
• Coordinates with functional team to assure consistency and optimization of overall work product
• Maintains current knowledge of industry and business process trends and is able to apply that knowledge to existing business processes

SKILLS:

• Ability to analyze and define complex processes and sub-processes
• Have clear understanding of your assigned functional area and the data being managed, and its implications downstream to other systems, processes, and applications
• Knowledge of the business rules for their functional areas
• Excellent oral, verbal and written communication skills. 
• Strong meeting facilitation skills as well as presentation skills.
• Communicate effectively with diverse people at various organization levels with right level of detail and cultural sensitivity
• Preferred software experience
  • Collibra
  • Informatica Data Quality
  • SQL
  • Python
  • REDCap
  • Tableau

Flexible and open to new ideas with the ability to understand things from corporate, regional and local perspective while maintaining customer focus. Proven ability to work in an ambiguous environment; self-motivated to work in an independent and collaborative mode. Ability to build strong relationships with peers and leaders by building trust and credibility; strong collaboration skills. Active listening skills to understand business needs and steer business team to take decisions that have enterprise-wide impact. Effectively influence a team of individuals without reporting authority to achieve goals and meet deadlines

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology, Mathematics or other related major
• Experience working in a healthcare environment preferred
• Experience working in Data Governance preferred
• General knowledge of hospital operations, patient management, the interrelationship of systems, and how technology enables business processes
• Basic knowledge of backend database configuration and processes
• Previous provider and clinical systems knowledge is preferred, both in the inpatient and ambulatory settings

What You Will Need
 

Education:

• High school diploma/GED with 2 years of experience, or Associate's degree, or Bachelor's degree required.
• Bachelor's degree preferred.

Work Experience:

• 3 years of experience preferred.
• Seven years of information technology work experience in systems administration and programming required.

Why Join Our Team
 

Ascension is a faith-based healthcare organization dedicated to transformation through innovation across the continuum of care. As one of the leading non-profit and Catholic health systems in the U.S., Ascension is committed to delivering compassionate, personalized care to all. In FY2020, Ascension provided $2.4 billion in care of persons living in poverty and other community benefit programs. Ascension includes more than 160,000 associates and 40,000 aligned providers across a national network of ministries. We offer rewarding careers across more than 2,600 sites of care – including 146 hospitals and more than 50 senior living facilities – in 19 states and the District of Columbia.

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
 

Ascension Technologies is an equal opportunity employer (EEO) and affords equal opportunity to all associates and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic data, or other legally protected status. For further information regarding your EEO rights, click on the following link to the “EEO is the Law” poster:

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