IT Data Analyst - Houston, United States - Houston Methodist

Description

At Houston Methodist, the Information Technology (IT) Data Analyst position is responsible for analysis, functional documentation, configuration, maintenance, testing, and support for business intelligence and analytics applications through upgrades, new releases, and optimization implementations. This position utilizes critical thinking, attention to detail, and effective communication skills. The IT Data Analyst position works collaboratively with teams and to consult with business area leads and analyze issues to generate solution recommendations. This position communicates effectively with technical and non-technical audiences and utilizes subject matter expertise in business intelligence (BI) with experience in business, healthcare and technology projects. The IT Data Analyst position actively supports, develops and advances Houston Methodist's Business Intelligence applications. This position participates in requirements gathering sessions to understand and document complex business needs, monitors development progress, conducts quality assurance exercises, ensures deliverables are met, and manages expectations.

This IT Data Analyst position falls under our IT Analytics department and will have a focus on data governance. This role will help to maintain and optimize search capabilities of the analytics catalog and associated metadata records through partnerships with application teams and analytics hubs. Development and maintenance of inventory in the enterprise information maps is also needed. The IT Data Analyst will work with members of the data governance team to develop and support data/analytics requests and prioritization processes including triage as needed. Educational materials will be developed to support operations ability to search for or identify data assets. In addition, the IT Data analyst will facilitate the development and implementation of data quality standards, data protection standards and adoption requirements across the enterprise.

The following are highly preferred for this position:

• Knowledge of data governance practices, business technology issues related to management of enterprise information assets and approaches related to data protection
• Familiarity with enterprise data/analytics platforms such as Microsoft SQL Server, SAP Business Objects Webi, Tableau and Power BI.
• Familiarity with Data Governance Tools like Collibra
• Previous experience helping an organization develop a strategy for collecting and using data

PEOPLE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Communicates (oral and written) effectively with customers, vendors, colleagues, and management about services, contact information, system availability, and information.
• Partners with customers to gather requirements using various methods such as Agile and RAD design and development in conjunction with developers to document business case/ scope/ plan, business/functional requirements; including specifications for package solutions, and/or software development.
• Implements projects, performs development, testing and resolves issues with customers and vendors, making changes and corrections as needed; and coordinating communication of changes to customers.
• Assists more senior team members with user education of business intelligence applications and helps ensure access to data with the goal of reduced reliance on technical specialists in order to obtain data.

SERVICE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Gathers and documents requirements, business rules, source to target mapping, metadata capture and decomposes high-level business and user requirements into complete, concise and consistent functional requirements suitable for use by the developer.
• Assists in the design and development of reports, dashboards, and user presentations using Business Intelligence tools including Oracle BI, SAP Business Objects, Epic Caboodle, Tableau and Epic Slicer Dicer.
• Assists with messaging to customers and management on plans for issue resolution, status updates and their effect on the department to customers. Partners with the Project Management Office to support all phases of project implementation.
• Participates in managing and resolving major system outages, disaster management and change control.

QUALITY/SAFETY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Ensures all reported data and information are accurate, consistent, relevant and timely.
• Maintains the quality and integrity of data collected for decision making and works with the other areas of the organization to ensure consistent reporting of information.
• Performs required quality and profiling activities on the data to ensure information delivered from BI solutions is defect free and of high quality. Develops detailed system test plans, execute system test cases and provide issue tracking and consolidation. Participates in a coordinated User Acceptance Test (UAT) effort.

FINANCE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Practices good time management, good assessment in professional decision making, and management reporting skills to recommend problem resolution, technical analyses, costs and resource estimates, work plans, workflow documentation, and progress reports on assigned projects.
• Helps minimize excess cost(s) by assisting and recommending solutions in achieving organizational objectives.

GROWTH/INNOVATION ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Proposes solutions to facilitate constructive discussion and fosters an environment that encourages innovation, continuous improvement and growth within the team to arrive at the most optimal solution.
• Uses internal and external resources to stay up to date with new Analytics technologies and trends.

This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; the employee will also perform other reasonably related business/job duties as assigned. Houston Methodist reserves the right to revise job duties and responsibilities as the need arises.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Health Administration, or related discipline

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Three years experience as business analyst on Business Intelligence projects performing requirement gathering and documentation including working with information technology teams on development projects using Business Intelligence tools and technologies such as Microsoft SQL Server, SAP Business objects, Oracle BI, EPIC Caboodle, EPIC SlicerDicer and Tableau
• Experience in the healthcare industry preferred
• Experience integrating new and existing clinical database environments preferred

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS - REQUIRED

• N/A

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Demonstrates the skills and competencies necessary to safely perform the assigned job, determined through on-going skills, competency assessments, and performance evaluations
• Sufficient proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing the English language necessary to perform the essential functions of this job, especially with regard to activities impacting patient or employee safety or security
• Ability to effectively communicate with patients, physicians, family members and co-workers in a manner consistent with a customer service focus and application of positive language principles
• Strong oral and written communication, listening, facilitation and observational skills
• Strong analytical and consultative skills including the ability to identify true needs and requirements
• Knowledge of EPIC clinical and financial modules in a hospital environment preferred
• Ability to work with a vast array of information gathered during elicitation and analysis and adjust to changing information and priorities
• Strong teamwork skills including the ability to negotiate priorities and to resolve conflicts among customers, technologists, and management
• Ability to represent requirements information in graphical forms that augment textual representations in natural language
• Ability to balance theory and practical reality in data warehousing methods/approaches
• Ability to evaluate, prioritize and problem solve a variety and multiplicity of tasks and ensure timely and accurate completion
• Ability to work independently and take initiative
• General knowledge of health care operations desired, knowledge and appreciation of business concepts and requirements as applicable to a large academic, research, and/or healthcare facility preferred
• Understanding of BI data warehousing and concepts, tools functions and features
• Knowledge of database architecture including some knowledge of SQL and relational and multi-dimensional database structures and schemas
• Strong project management technical skills

SUPPLEMENTAL REQUIREMENTS

WORK ATTIRE

• Uniform No
• Scrubs No
• Business professional Yes
• Other (department approved) Yes

ON-CALL*
*Note that employees may be required to be on-call during emergencies (ie. DIsaster, Severe Weather Events, etc) regardless of selection below.

• On Call* Yes

TRAVEL**
**Travel specifications may vary by department**

• May require travel within the Houston Metropolitan area Yes
• May require travel outside Houston Metropolitan area Yes

Company Profile:

Houston Methodist is one of the nation's leading health systems and academic medical centers. Houston Methodist consists of eight hospitals: Houston Methodist Hospital, its flagship academic hospital in the heart of the Texas Medical Center, and seven community hospitals throughout the greater Houston area. Houston Methodist also includes an academic institute, a comprehensive residency program, a global business division, numerous physician practices and several free-standing emergency rooms and outpatient facilities. Overall, Houston Methodist employs more than 27,000 employees and is supported by a wide variety of business functions that operate at the system level to help enable clinical departments to provide high quality patient care.

Houston Methodist is an equal opportunity employer inclusive of women, minorities, disabled persons and veterans.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Houston Methodist is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Equal employment opportunity is a sound and just concept to which Houston Methodist is firmly bound. Houston Methodist will not engage in discrimination against or harassment of any person employed or seeking employment with Houston Methodist on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran or other characteristics protected by law. VEVRAA Federal Contractor – priority referral Protected Veterans requested.