Senior Application Specialist

Grow your career at Cedars-Sinai!

The Enterprise Information Services (EIS) team at Cedars-Sinai understands that true clinical transformation and the optimization of a clinical information systems implementation is fueled through the alignment of people, processes, and technologies.

Why work here?

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has been ranked the #1 hospital in California and #2 hospital in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, 2022‑23. Beyond an outstanding benefit package and competitive salaries, we take pride in hiring the best, most committed employees. Our staff reflects the culturally and ethnically diverse community we serve. They are proof of our dedication to creating a multifaceted, inclusive environment that fuels innovation and the gold standard of patient care we strive for.

What will I be doing in this role:

The Senior Epic Clarity Analyst/ SQL Developer works with end-user requests to detail moderately to complex business requirements, data definitions, business rules, and data quality requirement in support of enterprise data intelligence projects. Creates specifications for reports and analysis based on business/clinical needs and data elements required or available. Produces data sets, reports, ad-hoc requests, dashboards, etc. Conducts data analysis in a variety of analytic solutions. Provides quantitative and qualitative data analysis and reporting of patterns, insights, and trends to decision-makers. Analyze sophisticated problems and issues using data from internal and external sources. May provide consultation to users and lead cross-functional teams to address data and analytic issues.

• Triages intake of data requests and seeks understanding of business need.
• Collaborates with application teams to understand workflow, documentation standards and potential gaps. Makes recommendations for closing gaps.
• Gathers clear and concise requirements for basic to medium complexity requests, interprets the findings and translates the information into a detailed business specification for report development.
• Collaborates with report developers (including Enterprise Data Warehouse and other reporting teams) to ensure understanding of data models and design of output.
• Performs data scrubbing, troubleshooting and quality checking prior to delivery of results.
• Demonstrates a solid understanding of report analysis and development and applies expertise to help meet customer goals and outcomes.

Experience Requirements:

• Five (5)+ years’ experience working with Epic clarity reports.
• Experience writing SQL statements and accessing relational database system.
• Experience with analytic business intelligence tools such as Crystal, Business Objects, SAS, and Tableau.
• Good technical proficiency in Reporting Workbench and Radar build.
• A solid grasp of build concepts, Epic migration paths, change control process/governance and ticket management process.
• Able to independently analyze basic to moderately sophisticated Clarity report requests, Reporting Workbench, and Radar build requests with assistance if needed.

Education/Certificate Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field (preferred)

Epic Certification required. (Epic Clarity preferred)