Job Description
Salary
The salary range for this position is CAD $45.46 - $65.35 / hour
Job Summary
We are proud of the innovation, dedication, partnership and tenacity of our physicians, employees and volunteers. More than any building or technology, it's our people who make Fraser Health distinct.
Do you want to utilize your technical skills, information systems knowledge and develop as a leader in Fraser Health’s Digital Patient and Provider Experience Team in the areas of Integration Solutions? If so, then keep on reading.
As a Lead you will provide deep technical skills, healthcare integration experience, and strategic business partnership capabilities. They will design and build robust integrations leveraging leading technologies to connect disparate systems and data sources seamlessly.
You are a self starter, you can work with minimal instruction, and you have the ability to ‘find your way around.’
You will be participating and leading R&D to determining the best solution to solve technical challenges.
You will excel as you work with all levels of the business, ensuring information technology deliverable align with the business requirements.
You are a professional communicator. You know how to convey messages to different audiences of different backgrounds.
You have the project management skillset to lead cross-team, cross-organization projects, investigations, and initiatives.
Build your career experience as you:
- Design, build, and maintain reliable integration flows that move data seamlessly between systems. Ensure high quality data integrity.
- Develop reusable integration components, services, APIs, and orchestration processes. Promote integration best practices.
- Work with stakeholders and translate business needs into technical requirements. Align integrations with business goals.
- Clearly communicate technical concepts and proposals to senior leadership and key business partners.
- Create business cases, cost justifications, and risk assessments for integration initiatives and technology investments.
- Collaborate with vendor and IT teams to evaluate solutions and drive strategic roadmap decisions.
- Leverage cloud integration platforms and technologies to build adaptable and scalable interfaces.
- Apply strong knowledge of integration styles (P2P, ESB, Hub & Spoke) and healthcare standards (HL7, FHIR, EDI).
- Ensure compliance with security, regulatory and data privacy requirements.
Are you motivated to join us? We will be looking for you to have the following:
- Bachelor's Degree in Health Information Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field.
- At least seven (7) years of recent related experience in a technical role or software development role with three (3) to five (5) years of project management experience.
An asset to this role would be:
- Familiarity with project management best practices and artifacts.
- Knowledge of integration styles (P2P, ESB, Hub & Spoke) and healthcare standards (HL7, FHIR, EDI).
- Experience with designing and building integration flows (components, services, APIs, and orchestration processes).
- Working experience in writing briefing notes and business cases.
- Familiarity with integration technology such as Microsoft BizTalk.
- Knowledge of security, regulatory and data privacy best practices.
- Working experience with RESTful API, Web Services, IIS, and Certificates.
- Familiarity with cloud integration platforms and technologies such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services.
- Knowledge of software development lifecycle.
- Knowledge of IT infrastructure and Networking in a highly secured environment.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze complex issues and provide effective solutions.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively in a team environment.
Does this sound like an excellent role for you? If so, here are more reasons why you should apply:
- A career with FH will offer you the opportunity to be a part of a dedicated team of experts in a dynamic and rewarding health care environment.
- We offer a competitive compensation and benefit package, including comprehensive health benefits coverage.
Fraser Health consists of 12 acute care hospitals, with BC’s first dedicated outpatient care and surgery centre and a wide variety of services in public health, home health, mental health and residential care facilities - all within Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley.
We are Canada's largest and fastest growing health authorities. With over 26,000 employees, 2,500 physicians and nearly 6,500 volunteers, and serve more than 1.6 million people - over one third of the entire population in British Columbia.
Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Apply today so we can continue the conversation and make a difference in the communities we serve. We value diversity in the work force and aim to maintain an environment of Respect, Caring & Trust.
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Detailed Overview
Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health:
The Lead, Health Informatics is responsible for leading and managing assigned projects, providing leadership to team members and applying appropriate change management strategies as part of a project. Provides advice, guidance, and direction to an assigned portfolio in the areas of knowledge management, and decision support in clinical and corporate business areas.
Responsibilities- Provides guidance and expertise by consulting to all disciplines and stakeholders within an assigned portfolio by performing functions such as coordinating and performing feasibility studies, conducting workload efficiency analysis using formal data gathering techniques, analyzing, designing and implementing appropriate information systems, and identifying system deficiencies, user department operational inefficiencies and recommending ways of improving business efficiency functions.
- Participates in enterprise-wide, cross-disciplinary business strategy projects including confidential initiatives that support the selection, procurement and implementation of appropriate information systems applications.
- Serves as a consultant participating on enterprise-wide projects which are under the leadership of the Portfolio Manager; serves as back up to the Portfolio Manager in the area of team leadership or project management.
- Responsible to establish and lead assigned information system projects by adhering to project management and support structure methodologies, managing project timelines, monitoring expenditures and variance analysis, facilitating change management strategies, defining tasks, identifying resource needs, and reporting on project status to the Portfolio Manager.
- Performs system analysis by establishing application systems scope and objectives, conducting feasibility studies, planning or modifying procedures to solve complex problems, preparing detailed specifications and solving existing system logic difficulties as required.
- Performs complex business and/or clinical process analysis including conducting work flow analysis and developing business information requirements and models.
- Coordinates and provides third level application support to critical system problems and ensures that the application service level agreement in place is written or maintained to meet the business expectations and Informatics capabilities.
- Serves on a variety of Fraser Health wide health service delivery area and departmental committees, task groups, internal working teams and corporate projects.
- Maintains knowledge of infrastructure and technologies by remaining aware of current and new technologies.
Qualifications
Education and Experience
Bachelor's degree in Health Information Science or Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. Five (5) years of recent experience with business and systems analysis including experience as a project manager.
Competencies
Demonstrates the leadership practices of the Fraser Health Leadership Framework of Clear, Caring and Courageous and creates the conditions for people to succeed.
Professional/Technical Capabilities:
- Ability to provide leadership to a variety of project teams in an environment that constantly changes and that has fluctuating priorities.
- Knowledge of information management, health informatics, business processes, technologies and applications.
- Knowledge of all components of a technical architecture.
- Ability to translate business and/or clinical needs into application architecture requirements.
- Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the project management process and the systems development life cycle.
- Demonstrated decision making ability within complex and diverse issues.
- Demonstrated superior skills in data research, gathering, modeling, and business and systems analysis.
- Ability to organize work, problem solve, multitask and meet deadlines.
- Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.
About Fraser Health
Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada. People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 48,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.
We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.
Together, we are the heart of health care.
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