Application Analyst IV at RWJBarnabas Health – Oceanport, New Jersey

Job Title: Application Analyst IV

Location: System Business Office

Department Name: IT&S Billing

Req #: 0000207997

Status: Salaried

Shift: Day

Pay Range: $121,749.00 - $171,970.00 per year

Pay Transparency:

The above reflects the anticipated annual salary range for this position if hired to work in New Jersey.

The compensation offered to the candidate selected for the position will depend on several factors, including the candidate's educational background, skills and professional experience.

Job Overview:

The Application Analyst IV plays a critical role in supporting the design, build, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of enterprise applications. As a senior-level expert, this individual serves as a key resource for both analyst team members and operational stakeholders. Working independently, the Application Analyst IV ensures that all tasks and projects are prioritized and executed in alignment with management directives.

This role involves performing complex application configurations, managing installations and upgrades, and leading the creation and execution of test scripts. The Application Analyst IV is also responsible for documenting outcomes, troubleshooting advanced issues, and coordinating customer support activities with a high level of autonomy and expertise.

In addition to technical responsibilities, this role requires strong problem-solving skills to address and resolve build or customer issues, propose mitigation strategies, and escalate concerns when necessary. The Application Analyst IV also participates in on-call support during go-live events and throughout the application’s lifecycle.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Associate s degree with five or more years of relevant work experience

• 6+ years prior system build experience

• 2+ years of relevant experience functioning in a leadership capacity with leading teams and workgroups

• Knowledge of current clinical financial system workflows and processes

• Demonstrated ability to support and develop the application and mentor others

• Ability to handle complex work independently

Preferred:

• Bachelor s degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience

Scheduling Requirements:

• Full Time

• Day Shift

Key Competencies:

• Adaptability/flexibility: demonstrating flexibility with respect to changing end-user business needs.

• Critical thinking: the ability and willingness to see things in an open-minded way and examine an idea or concept from as many angles as possible.

• Dependability: the ability and willingness to take ownership of work activities and ensure that they are completed in an accurate, efficient, and timely manner.

• Must be detail-oriented with strong organizational skills and able to function effectively in a fast-paced environment and meet deadlines.

• Initiative: the ability and willingness to recognize assignments or tasks that need to be completed, to seek out additional assignments or tasks, and to help others.

• Interpersonal skills: the ability to communicate information clearly and concisely with project leadership and subject matter experts; the ability to gain trust and establish effective relationships with Epic counterparts.

• Learning: the ability and willingness to learn new software and systems.

• Listening: listening attentively to ensure that the intended message has been accurately received, holding responses until the person has finished making their point, and repeating information to ensure accuracy.

• Problem solving seeking, logically examining, and interpreting information from different sources to determine a problem's cause and developing a course of action to resolve the problem and to prevent its recurrence.

• Resilience: the ability to persevere in difficult situations, overcome obstacles, and reach high levels of performance when faced with stressful work situations and time pressures

Responsibilities:

• Designing and building the related application.

• Coordinates with Operations to optimize the design of the application s capabilities and workflows.

• Utilizes external resources for best practice builds and solutions

• Performing a thorough review of all Foundation Build and operational requested content and workflows for application

• Investigates, documents, and evaluates current state workflows as it pertains to build and offers technology solutions for workflow enhancements in collaboration with analyst peers, training staff and other stakeholders

• Building data fields, screens, templates, and customer-defined functionality, as required

• Collaborates with the training team and others to ensure alignment between the proposed training curriculum and the system build

• Oversees and/or performs analysis of necessary application modifications

• Takes initiative to offer solutions to complex issues research performed

• Following build standards and maintaining synchronization between environments in collaboration with environment team

• Works with minimal to no supervision, demonstrates initiative and demonstrates self-direction

• Acts as a resource for all analysts on the team

• Identifies topics for Change Readiness demo s and creates documentation

Interested in learning more about our IT&S team? Check out this video from our leadership team:

https://vimeo.com/1038366426/2f1c2a76a5?ts=0&share=copy

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Benefits and Perks:

At RWJBarnabas Health, our market-competitive Total Rewards package provides comprehensive benefits and resources to support our employees’ physical, emotional, social, and financial health.

• Paid Time Off (PTO)

• Medical and Prescription Drug Insurance

• Dental and Vision Insurance

• Retirement Plans

• Short & Long Term Disability

• Life & Accidental Death Insurance

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Health Care/Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

• Wellness Programs

• Voluntary Benefits (e.g., Pet Insurance)

• Discounts Through our Partners such as NJ Devils, NJ PAC, Verizon, and more!

Choosing RWJBarnabas Health!

RWJBarnabas Health is the premier health care destination providing patient-centered,

high-quality academic medicine in a compassionate and equitable manner, while delivering

a best-in-class work experience to every member of the team. We honor and appreciate the privilege of creating and sustaining healthier communities, one person and one community at a time. As the leading academic health system in New Jersey, we advance innovative strategies in high-quality patient care, education, and research to address both the clinical and social determinants of health.

RWJBarnabas Health aims to truly make a unique impact in local communities throughout New Jersey. From vastly improving the health of local residents to creating educational and career opportunities, this combination greatly benefits the state. We understand the growing and evolving needs of residents in New Jersey—whether that be enhancing the coordination for treating complex health conditions or improving community health through local programs and education.

Equal Opportunity Employer