Systems Analyst - Senior

About the role

This position helps develop and deploy world-class data analytics for the system antimicrobial stewardship program at UPMC, one of the nation’s leading health systems. The Senior level Systems Analyst is a senior member of a system shared service team comprised of healthcare professionals contributing to UPMC’s strategic initiatives, clinical excellence, and operational targets through data-driven insights.

Responsibilities

• Lead data analytics and visualization projects for antimicrobial stewardship and develop departmental dashboards.
• Support analysis, monitoring, investigation, and planning activities.
• Produce professional deliverables for an executive audience.
• Lead investigative activities and coordinate with technical resources across departments.

Requirements

• No scheduled evening, weekend, overnight, or holiday coverage is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 5 years related work experience OR 2 years of experience and preferred certification or Master’s degree
• Experience: Data/Business Analytics, Data Science, Software Development, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Information Technology/Information Security/ Auditing, Informatics Pharmacy
• Degree Preferences: Data Science, Business Analytics, Health Information Technology, Information Technology/Systems, Information Security, Computer Forensics, Computer Science, Pharmacy
• Experience Preferences: Data Analytics, Data Visualization, Data Warehousing, Programming/Software engineering, Statistics, Machine Learning, Business Intelligence, Auditing, Information Technology, Health Care, Database Management, Pharmacy, ETL (Extract, Transfer and Load), SQL.
• Certification Preferences: Epic Willow, Epic Cogito, PGY-2 Pharmacy Informatics Residency

Skills

• Serve as primary data support for management level leadership of the system antimicrobial stewardship team
• Analyze and interpret data using statistical modeling software (e.g. R, Python, SAS) and apply statistical methods, analysis, and models (i.e. hypothesis testing, logistic and linear regression, correlation, parametric and non-parametric methods) to detect improvement opportunities.
• Report/dashboard creation (Tableau, Qlik)
• Expert in data validation, analysis, and visualization techniques.
• Proficient in programming languages (ACL, Python, R, SAS, SQL).
• Understand software development techniques.
• Distribute technical knowledge and identify training needs.
• Stay current with new technologies and IT systems.
• Extract and combine data from various sources.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and collaborate with peers.

Benefits

• Earn over 5 weeks of paid time off every year
• Affordable medical, dental & vision coverage
• Student loan assistance and tuition reimbursement options
• Earn up to 8% of your eligible pay in retirement contributions from UPMC
• Employer-paid life insurance