WVU Medicine · 3 months ago
Workday - System Architect
WVU Medicine is a healthcare organization looking for a Workday System Architect. This role involves designing and optimizing architecture strategies to meet business needs, providing strategic consultation, and overseeing complex business initiatives while ensuring the integrity and functionality of systems.
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Responsibilities
Provides strategic consultation to business customers in defining or designing business processes and functions, as well as in researching and internally marketing technologies based on customer capability requirements. Facilitates development of enterprise business solutions that combine knowledge of particular business processes and issues, general technology options, and processes facilitation techniques. Participates in enterprise strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business innovation portfolio development
Specifies and designs large or complex systems, solutions, or processes. Selects appropriate design standards, methods, and tools. Reviews others' system design to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology. Establishes policy for selection of architecture components. Evaluates and undertakes impact analysis on major design options. Ensures that the system architecture balances functional, service quality, and systems management requirements
Uses appropriate tools, including models of components and interfaces, to contribute to the development of architectures. Produces detailed component requirements and specifications and translates these into detailed solutions for implementation. Provides advice on technical aspects of system development, integration, and processes. Ensures that relevant technical and business strategies and policies are applied correctly
Selects and uses tools and methods to establish and communicate the requirements of system users, their characteristics, and tasks. Identifies the technical, organizational, and physical environment in which complex products will operate. Proposes and leads improvement programs, taking responsibility for the quality and appropriateness of the work performed and the realization of measurable business benefits. Modifies and improves upon process improvement approaches
Oversees the enterprise change management process for their area of responsibility to ensure processes are followed and provide recommendations/direction on requests being submitted with regard to impact across affected teams
Ensures the resolution of a variety of architecture and business problems and serves as a lead for highly complex business initiatives
Maintains an in-depth knowledge of technical aspects and provides expert advice regarding their collective applications and/or technical environment
Provides leadership and mentoring to peers, developers, management, and business partners using technical expertise and training
Demonstrates prevention techniques to avoid repeat issues and crisis situations
Establishes defined criteria set to objectively evaluate complex decisions. Intervenes flexibly/creatively to improve system design and/or performance
Skilled in effectively managing the most challenging relationships with and among vendors, professional peers, and other team members
Reinforces the essential IT principles, policies, procedures and standards that guide their application in practical situations
The position may require travel to other West Virginia United Health System (WVUHS) facilities or affiliated sites to assist with implementations, training and/or support
Adhere to the established policies of the WVUHS as well as the policies of the entity or entities where the IT team member is assigned to work and/or employed
Accepts on-call responsibilities and responds with action, either by phone call or on-site as defined by department policy
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in healthcare, computer science, business, informatics or related field AND Eight (8) years' experience performing system analysis with business, clinical or administrative applications required
OR High school diploma or equivalent AND Twelve (12) years' experience performing system analysis with business, clinical or administrative applications required
This position may require additional certification in support of the responsibilities of the position, which will be provided by WVUHS Information Technology. Certification completion will be required within four months of formal certification training completion
Internal employees must meet all mandatory competencies in current position in order to qualify for promotion within IT
5 to 7 years of Workday experience
Intuitive, holistic understanding of highly complex system designs, environmental strategy and performance even in unstable/ dynamic or crisis situations based on broad and deep applied professional experience
Preferred
Experience in a healthcare system/environment
Experience with Data Integration, Application Roadmaps and/or Technical and Workflow Architecture
Company
WVU Medicine
West Virginia University Health System is a non-profit organization that offers a full range of healthcare services.
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