Children's Mercy · 16 hours ago
Lead IT Systems Applications Engineer
Adele Hall
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$50.52/hr - $50.52/hr
5+ years expChildren's Mercy is a leading pediatric hospital located in Kansas City, dedicated to making a difference in the lives of children and their families. They are seeking a Lead IT Systems Applications Engineer to oversee programming and support for application systems development, ensuring stakeholder satisfaction and optimal system stability through comprehensive monitoring and management of business applications.
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Responsibilities
Lead the execution of programming, build of programs and scripts for integrations, monitoring, data transmissions, reports, dashboards, workflows, scripts and queries to support the Business Applications as needed. Manage the investigation and implementation of new technology presented by the vendor for data replication, reporting, analytics, and workflows. Lead engineers in gathering requirements and documenting design and operational support documentation
Provide troubleshooting and system support by overseeing implementation of solutions to complex issues with application configuration, security, and data replications across multiple environments. Demonstrate critical thinking and problem solving. Answer user questions and track problems received. Troubleshoot system and data issues and failures. Lead implementation of audits/process improvements to promote system integrity. Manage the methods to track and resolve issues and questions. Lead the team in monitoring systemic problems to proactively identify, determine root cause and resolve before they become larger. Research solutions and implement with minimal impact to users and development
Oversee upgrading, configuring, testing and maintaining business applications by working closely with developers and analysts. This includes application security, programming, data copies and data replications
Manage written and verbal communication with Vendors, Analysts, Functional Teams/Stakeholders, and Managers to gather requirements, report progress, issues, and project details. Respond to user requests and incidents. Assist with coordinating meetings / testing times with functional teams and outside vendors
Engineer will lead engineers in the design, build and support of SQL jobs and processes to extract and load data into data warehouses and data marts, and development and maintenance of analytics cubes. Work closely with DBAs to monitor and optimize performance of databases
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in a technical related degree (CS, CIS, MIS) or related field and 5-7 years' experience leading work in application development, software engineering, and application support/administration or related experience
Associate's Degree in a technical related degree (CS, CIS, MIS) or related field or equivalent technical training/certifications and 7 or more years' experience leading work in application development, software engineering, and application support/administration or related experience
High School diploma or equivalent and 9+ years' leading work in application development, software engineering, and application support/administration or related experience
Company
Children's Mercy
We are pioneers in pediatric health care, dedicated to transforming the lives of children through exceptional care, groundbreaking research and innovative education.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
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Baldrick's Foundation
2023-11-21Grant
Leadership Team
Paul Kempinski
President and Chief Executive Officer
Shohab Baig
Chief Technology Officer
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