Job Description
Description
Summary:
The Information Services Strategic Analyst II implements innovative solutions for CHRISTUS Enterprise. The Strategic Analyst leads in creating ideas, journey mapping, UX design, by working with various business units to understand challenges. The Strategic Analyst should be able to lead design thinking sessions, define their needs, collect ideas, problems and opportunities and then be able to facilitate and drive delivery of initiatives using Agile methodology.
Responsibilities:
• Lead design thinking sessions that empathize with users, define their needs, and collect ideas, problems, and opportunities
• Gather and document requirements, create design workflows, Design innovative and integrated systems
• Lead and monitor the progress of the various ongoing innovative initiatives
• Lead, evaluate and oversee the overall implementation of ideas from innovation structure
• Lead and work with the team to develop idea generation approaches
• Work with internal teams to execute the Design and solution based on business needs
• Work with internal teams on proper handoff and commercialization of innovative initiatives
• Understanding the business strategy, pain points, market trends, and identifying and evaluating technologies will bring business value.
• Lead Innovative solution implementation by assisting the in-house development teams with Sprint planning following Agile/Scrum methodology
• Manage external partnerships with companies that may accelerate innovation and market access.
• Produce new ideas and be able to execute rapidly
• Develop strategy and help execute innovation culture, including defining, communicating, and inspiring innovation in the organization.
• Organize training on topics such as creativity, business models, and prototyping
• Educate teams on how to identify short projects from an idea to execution
• Coordinate with various Internal IS teams and vendors to deliver desired solution
Requirements:
Education/Skills
• Bachelor’s degree or a related field of study
• Innovative Mindset - Flexibility to rapidly understand business and technology opportunities.
• Strong Analytical, creative, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills
• Applying design methods – understanding design procedures and standards to create prototypes and finished products
• Building teams – Work closely with Application Analysts, software developers, Business Stakeholders, Business Senior Executive leadership and Information Services Executive leadership, and Service Delivery owners.
• Creating Custom solutions – Offer viable innovative solutions for various business needs
• Familiarity with IT implementation and Agile methodologies
• Excellent planning and organizational skills
• Excellent written, verbal, communication, and presentation skills with the ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
Experience
• Four or more years of experience in leading innovative solutions by gathering requirements, understanding problems and designing solutions
• Experience being creative (design mindset) and innovative both front-end innovation (ideas) and back-end innovation (rapid execution of experiments) to match the opportunities to the needs
• Experience working with Executive leadership and gathering requirements from other business areas (Revenue Cycle, Supply Chain, Clinical, Consumer) organization and creating design workflows.
• Scrum/Agile, and experience leading large/complex implementations
Work Type:
Full Time