Epic Inpatient Clinical Application Manager

About the role

Adventist HealthCare seeks to hire an experienced Epic Inpatient Clinical Application Manager who will embrace our mission to extend God's care through the ministry of physical, mental, and spiritual healing.

Responsibilities

• Lead assigned Epic application teams through implementation, optimization, testing, integrated workflows, go-live planning, stabilization, upgrades, and ongoing support while ensuring project scope, quality, and timelines are achieved.
• Directly supervise Epic application analysts, including work assignments, performance management, professional development, resource allocation, workload balancing, coaching, and hiring support.
• Coordinate application activities with the Project Director, project managers, operational leaders, technical teams, vendors, training, testing, reporting, and other application teams to ensure integrated delivery across the enterprise.
• Oversee application support, upgrades, and optimization, including issue management, risk identification, escalation, workflow decisions, change control, integrated planning, and leadership status reporting.
• Ensure application build, workflow design, testing, validation, integrated readiness, cutover preparation, and production support activities meet organizational standards and Epic implementation practices.
• Partner with operational leaders, clinical stakeholders, revenue cycle leaders, physician champions, subject matter experts, and Epic representatives to ensure application solutions support operational, regulatory, and patient care objectives.
• Develop team capabilities through mentoring, performance feedback, certification planning, knowledge transfer, and continuous process improvement initiatives.
• Maintain expertise in Epic application functionality, healthcare technology trends, interoperability concepts, implementation methods, and organizational priorities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in information technology, healthcare administration, clinical informatics, business administration, computer science, nursing, or a related field. Master's degree preferred.
• Minimum of six (6) years of progressively responsible experience in a clinical area and information technology, including electronic health record implementation, application support, clinical informatics, healthcare operations, or related healthcare technology experience.
• Minimum of three (3) years of management experience preferred.
• Experience leading application teams, technical staff, or healthcare information technology initiatives is preferred.
• Additional Epic certifications or proficiencies preferred.
• Project Management Professional preferred.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt preferred.
• Experience leading Epic implementations, upgrades, optimization initiatives, and application governance is preferred.
• Experience supporting integrated workflows across multiple Epic applications and using IT service management practices is preferred.

Pay

$116,227.90 - $174,341.85

Schedule

• Full-time, 40 hours per week
• 8 am–5 pm, Monday through Friday, Day Shift
• Follow the company holiday calendar
• Ability to participate in after-hours support, cutovers, go-live activities, and major-incident response as needed
• Occasional travel may be required for training, project work, or vendor coordination

Benefits

• Work life balance through nonrotating shifts
• Recognition and rewards for professional expertise
• Free Employee parking
• Medical, Prescription, Dental, and Vision coverage for employees and their eligible dependents effective on your date of hire
• Employer-paid Short & Long-Term Disability, Basic Life Insurance and AD&D (short-term disability buy-up available)
• Paid Time Off
• Employer retirement contribution and match after 1-year of eligible employment with a 3-year vesting period
• Voluntary benefits include flexible spending accounts, legal plans, and life, pet, auto, home, long term care, and critical illness & accident insurance
• Subsidized childcare at participating childcare centers
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) support