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Bergen New Bridge Medical Center · 3 hours ago

DIRECTOR, IT APPLICATIONS FULL-TIME DAY SHIFT 25128

Paramus, NJ

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff, Director/Executive

5+ years exp

Bergen New Bridge Medical Center is a leading healthcare provider dedicated to high-quality, compassionate care. They are seeking a Director, IT Applications to implement and manage enterprise application projects, ensuring the development and maintenance of operational and clinical applications while providing leadership to the applications services team.

EventsHealth CareHospitalNon ProfitRehabilitation

Responsibilities

Implement enterprise application projects supporting patient care and safety and hospital clinical applications; responsible for planning, developing and supervising projects to completion using established project management tool and techniques

Responsible for development, validation, and ongoing maintenance activities for all hospital operational and clinical applications

Assess institutional needs and develop improvement initiatives accordingly

Provide leadership and mentoring to a team of applications services professionals

Support and develop the technical expertise needed to meet long-term organizational needs

Responsible for annual performance appraisals for applications staff assigned

Responsible for planning and establishing internal policies and procedure regarding operations, change and problem management, as well as project methodologies around applications

Oversee communication with and support provided to application end users

Serve as the primary liaison between third party application vendors and the organization

Perform quality assurance at technical and procedural levels

Work with application staff to direct data analytics and performs analysis; provide written and oral reports and proposals to management

Ensure compliance with local/state/federal regulations as they pertain to the organization’s applications

Ensure upgrades are reviewed, performed timely and rolled out to stakeholders to ensure successful communication along with working with Tech team from infrastructure standpoint

Develops a full list of applications, versions, EOL, etc

Integrate best practices and technology standards across supervised groups

Collaborate with other IT, hospital departments to ensure cohesiveness in application rollout

Develop training requirements as needed and have application staff versed on training end users

Collaborate with other Director/Managers within the department

Develop interoperability program with applications internally and externally

Maintains established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance program, safety, environmental, and infection control standards

Assesses gaps in policies and procedures, and create necessary policies and procedures to fulfill these gaps

Understands and adheres to the Medical Center’s Code of Conduct

Familiar with the Medical Center’s Mission, Vision, and Values Statements

Participate in and/or lead multidisciplinary task forces, committees and projects

Continue professional development through reading, participation in seminars and optional training

Keep informed on direction and happenings in the healthcare industry and within NBMC

Performs other duties as assigned to support the overall objectives of the department and organization

Qualification

Application managementSoftware development life cycleProject managementHealthcare industry familiarityTraining material developmentMicrosoft OfficeProficient in EnglishCommunicationOrganizational skillsInterpersonal skills

Required

5+ years of experience working closely with application development teams and software engineers to deliver solutions in a collaborative, innovative manner

5+ years of experience in an application management position

Proven project management track record

Familiarity with healthcare industry

Familiarity with clinical

Familiarity with developing training materials

Proven experience with the complete software application development life cycle

Microsoft Office skills including MS Project

Competent computer skills

Excellent organizational, oral and written communication, and interpersonal skills

Proficient in English

Bachelor's degree in computer science or other related discipline or prior applications management experience required