Hospital for Special Surgery

Epic Technical Lead

Hospital for Special Surgery$132K — $201K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BA/BS degree in Information Systems, Business, or related field or equivalent experience
  • Proven problem-solving and analytical skills with strong communication capabilities
  • Ability to interact effectively with various levels within the healthcare organization
  • Strong interpersonal skills and customer service orientation
  • 4+ years' experience in healthcare, preferably within a healthcare organization (preferred)
  • Epic certification or experience in one or more modules (preferred)
  • Hands-on experience with Epic systems and environment management (preferred)

Responsibilities

  • Oversee team projects and ensure timely completion of deliverables
  • Provide technical oversight for Epic upgrades and system maintenance
  • Own Epic environment strategy and administer change control processes
  • Lead downtime and business continuity strategies, including audits and drills
  • Provide technical support and manage escalations for Epic applications
  • Monitor Epic Honor Roll performance and oversee optimization initiatives
  • Maintain workstation and security strategies for Epic users

Benefits

  • Flexible work schedule with potential night and weekend support
  • On-call rotation for major implementations or system support
Full Job Description
Emp Status
Regular Full time

Work Shift

Compensation Range
The base pay scale for this position is $132,000.00 - $201,500.00. In addition, this position will be eligible for additional benefits consistent with the role. The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be determined based on various factors, including but not limited to: scope of role, level of experience, education, accomplishments, internal equity, budget, and subject to Fair Market Value evaluation. The hiring range listed is a good faith determination of potential compensation at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.

What you will be doing
This is a great role for someone with Epic application experience that is looking to broaden their skillset and take on enterprise-level challenges and projects

The Team Lead is responsible for oversight of their team's projects and activities. He/She is accountable to the Manager/Director for completion of deliverables. The Team Lead serves an escalation point for staff, and represents the team in management activities. He/She provides coaching and mentorship to other employees and actively develops the capabilities of the team. The Team Lead is responsible for in-depth knowledge of assigned software, technologies, and functions, serving as a liaison between end users and IT staff. He/She provides insight to integrated teams on workflow changes, system build and implementation activities. The Team Lead demonstrates the ability to form and maintain strategic and tactical relationships both internally within the IT department and externally with business stakeholders. Position may require flexible work schedule, including night and weekend support of major implementations or major system support efforts. Includes on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

System Maintenance and Technical Oversight

  • Providing technical oversight of Epic major upgrades, which are managed by a dedicated upgrade project manager
  • Maintaining Special Update (SU) installs, ad-hoc fixes, Release Authorizations (RAs), and monthly patching in coordination with the Epic Hosting team
  • Deploying Epic Hyperdrive client updates, as well as client packs for BCA PC, Epic Monitor, and Epic Welcome through Kuiper.
  • Coordinating with Desktop Engineering to ensure Epic Satellite activation keys are published and available for use by End User Computing.
  • Running scheduled Epic maintenance windows, including system and MyChart maintenance, package deployment, and post-maintenance validation


Environment Strategy and Change Management

  • Owning Epic environment strategy across build, test, training, and production, including refresh planning and environment health
  • Administering Epic Change Control, including the change calendar, approvals, and coordination across application teams
  • Attending Change Advisory Board, serving as Epic liaison for change activity that may potentially impact Epic users or analysts.
  • Administering Data Courier, including change movement between environments, migration batch management, and audit/reconciliation
  • Coordinating Epic testing, including environment readiness, regression, integrated, and upgrade testing


Downtime, Business Continuity, and Disaster Recovery

  • Serving as IT lead for downtime and business continuity (BCA), including strategy, audits, and drills
  • Monitoring system availability through System Pulse/Kuiper
  • Maintaining Epic disaster recovery planning and alternate/backup access via the Emergency Public Access Gateway
  • Serving as IT representative on the Operations Downtime Committee, and liaising with the Enterprise Operations team on long-term downtime strategy priorities.
  • Owning communications to the enterprise around Epic downtime, pause, and upgrade activity.


Technical Support and Escalations

  • Providing Epic technical support across system freezes, chart locks, and performance trend monitoring
  • Overseeing Epic Hosting team performance and conducting root cause analysis (RCA) follow-ups to verify process improvements
  • Serving as an intermediary for Epic application teams who may potentially need escalation to Epic Hosting for investigation/troubleshooting.
  • Managing browser and network whitelisting, and ticket, escalation, and queue management
  • Resolving Epic technical escalations that span application teams
  • Light maintenance of integrations, including certificate swaps, external integrations (E0A) between Epic and Microsoft 365 (e.g. Outlook Calendar Sync).


Cross-Module Optimization

  • Overseeing Epic Honor Roll performance across application teams.
  • Tracking Gold Star and adoption measures, and coordinating with module teams to close gaps against Epic benchmarks
  • Monitoring foundation and version-driven optimization items that extend laterally across modules
  • Contributing to technical audits and the annual benchmarking survey
  • Overseeing and advocating testing strategy in the context of monthly Epic updates, integrated testing for Epic upgrades, and other cross-app initiatives.


Security and Workstation Strategy

  • Maintaining LWS/EPR (workstation and printer) record strategy, including Hyperspace secure-versus-logout, inactivity timeouts, and local printing
  • Coordinating with the information security team on Epic security audits, security fixes, and environment-hardening enhancements

Qualifications

Minimum
  • BA/BS degree in Information Systems, Business, or a related field, or equivalent education and job experience
  • Proven problem-solving, analytical, administrative, written and verbal communication, presentation, customer service, and leadership skills, with the ability to balance multiple initiatives
  • Ability to communicate and interact effectively with all levels of the HSS organization
  • Strong interpersonal, team, and customer service orientation
  • Strong project management skills with attention to detail.

Preferred
  • 4+ years' experience in healthcare, working directly for a healthcare organization
  • Epic certified or experienced in one or more modules, with technical or administrative build experience
  • Hands-on experience with Epic environment management, Data Courier, change control, and maintenance
  • Familiarity with Epic Honor Roll, Gold Stars, and benchmarking programs
  • Working knowledge of Epic's Sherlock and Nova applications
  • Knowledge and understanding of project management principles

About Hospital for Special Surgery

Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) is a hospital in New York City that specializes in orthopedic surgery and the treatment of rheumatologic conditions. Founded in 1863 by James Knight, HSS is the oldest orthopedic hospital in the United States. The hospital has been ranked the top orthopedic hospital in the United States by U.S. News & World Report for 11 consecutive years. HSS has a staff of over 4000 employees, including more than 200 physicians and surgeons, and treats over 32,000 inpatients and 300,000 outpatients annually.
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