Information Systems Architect

Information Systems Architect - Advanced

Duration of the Contract: 12 Months (must be w2 contract)

Work Location: 100% Remote (* willing to travel to SC as deemed necessary)

Schedule Main working hours are 8am- 5pm, Monday - Friday, Eastern time zone. Working hours need to remain flexible within 40 hours per week, on-call and weekend work required occasionally.

Work -Plans, designs, develops, and implements architecture for systems, applications, security, or other highly specialized phases of IT architecture. Applies technology and designs system architectures to align with agency's strategic business objectives for Health-IT. Systems include Nextgen Healthcare's EHR, PM, EDR, NGShare, NG Mobile, MIRTH, eZmar, and Symmetry.

Examples of Work

• 1- Leads planning and evolution of an agency's Health IT Electronic Health Records system technology and architecture design.
• 2- Works with executive leadership to create technology strategies that support the agency's overall goals and strategic plans.
• 3- Develops and maintains the technology strategic roadmap and the security architecture documents.
• 4- Works with others to align the agency's technology initiatives with state-level standards and strategic directions, ensuring compliance with all applicable security standards.
• 5- Effectively communicates technology and security topics to executive leadership.
• 6- Works with team to compare, evaluate, and recommend products and vendors to fulfill technology objectives.
• 7- Aids in the decision process to select technologies and coordinate the transition of responsibility for implementation to the appropriate groups.
• 8- Develop policies, processes, and management control methods to ensure technology architectures and strategic direction are created, documented, understood, adhered to, and enforced. Creates documentation to record activities and decisions.
• 9- Provides leadership in strategic planning, architecture planning, technology review committees, system development life cycle processes, change control boards, security compliance processes, and other relevant activities.
• 10- Communicates external activities and directives to appropriate staff in a timely manner. Leads in the response to state-level IT requirements and activities, and other technology governance and compliance activities.
• 11- Follows and analyzes market trends.
• 12- Maintains current and comprehensive knowledge of relevant technological developments in themarket, staying abreast of technology trends and emerging technologies.
• 13- Provides strategic vision steering for the adoption of new technologies that supports the agency's mission and vision.

Responsibilities

• Assists with the implementation and continued operation of the agency's electronic Health Records system and related health care technologies.
• Assists in the EHR implementation process, including build, testing, training, and go live of the EHR system in conjunction with the vendor.
• Works with SCDC staff and vendors to implement interfaces between the EHR system and external systems such as the SCDC offender management system, lab information system, PACs, pharmacy, etc.
• Assists management in establishing reporting requirements and develops reports from the Nextgen database.
• Works with vendors and technical staff from regional health care providers to plan and implement SCDC participation in public and /or private health information exchanges.
• Works with medical and mental health care providers to evaluate current processes and implement technology solutions to reduce costs and improve staff efficiency and patient care.
• Evaluates and recommends equipment for purchase / lease.
• Provides status reports to management.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Extensive knowledge/skills of the Health-IT industry which includes multi-tiered architectures, enterprise applications, evaluation of emerging technologies, networks, data management systems, enterprise security, and hardware systems as they relate to Electronic Health Records, Health Information Exchanges and Electronic Medication Administration Records. Ability to plan, organize, direct, and review the work of technical personnel. Ability to establish and maintain working relationships with clients, technical staff, management, vendors, and others. Extensive knowledge of the principles and techniques of planning programs and work activities in a technical environment.

Minimum Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in information technology or a related field and experience in businessadministration, computer science, mathematics, engineering, management information science,networking-telecommunications, and/or data processing.
• Experience must include the designand implementation of enterprise-level systems architecture in either an on-premises, cloud-based, or hybrid environment.
• 10+ years' experience working with Electronic Health Records
• 5+ years' experience with using Nextgen EHR, PM and EDR
• Nextgen Certification
• Experience with ICD-9/ICD-10
• 5 +Health care specific data interface standards, and health information exchange technologies

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