Process Specialist - Major Incidents

Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry?

Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time actionable insights to physicians providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients at the right time.

Process Specialist - Major Incidents

Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time actionable insights to physicians providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients at the right time.

As a Process Specialist - Major Incidents you will be part of the IT team playing a critical role in ensuring the availability reliability and quality of Tempus Services. Working as part of a lean collaborative two-person team you will oversee the lifecycle of Major incidents (MIs) for technology across our enterprise and lab environments. This role is essential for minimizing disruptions to our business-critical and mission-focused systems coordinating rapid restoration and driving continuous process improvements.

• Incident Response & Coordination: Lead and coordinate the end-to-end response for Major Incidents. Act as the "command and control" during critical events by facilitating bridge calls driving cross-functional collaboration and ensuring clear actions are assigned to restore systems promptly.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Matrix-manage people and resources across engineering product management operational leads and third-party vendors. Partner with Legal Clinical and Quality teams when Major Incidents require evaluation from these specific functions.

• Stakeholder Communication: Draft and distribute timely accurate communications to business stakeholders leadership and service teams providing clear updates on incident status impact assessments and recovery timelines.

• Post-Incident Management: Track root cause analysis (RCA) and post-incident reviews. Ensure thorough data gathering identification of systemic issues and process oversight for tracking the end-to-end completion of corrective and preventive actions.

• Process Ownership & Documentation: Maintain optimize and produce Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) incident management runbooks and communication templates to ensure readiness during major events.

• Data Quality & Reporting: Maintain the Major Incident dashboard and prepare regular reviews metrics and reports for various teams across the business.

• Continuous Improvement: Analyze incident trends and performance metrics to identify and execute opportunities for process optimization and automation.

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Information Technology Computer Science Engineering Healthcare or a related field (or equivalent relevant work experience).

• Experience: 2–3 years of experience in IT operations service desk incident coordination or related IT service management (ITSM) roles.

• Tooling & Systems: Baseline experience working with enterprise ITSM platforms (ServiceNow preferred).

• Technical Awareness: Foundational technology awareness and an aptitude for learning complex proprietary software architectures.

• Incident Management & Analytical Skills: Strong incident management decision-making and analytical skills. Proven ability to analyze high volumes of technical data and work effectively under time pressure in a fast-paced environment.

• Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; ability to articulate complex technical issues concisely to stakeholders at all management levels.

• Availability: Ability to participate in an on-call rotation to support 24x7 operations including weekend/evening coverage as required by the team schedule.

• AI-Driven Process Optimization: Practical experience utilizing AI tooling or machine learning features within ITSM platforms to drive continuous improvement automate routine workflows or flag anomalous incident trends.

• Industry Experience: 2+ years of experience in Healthcare and/or Lab Operations with functional knowledge of healthcare data PHI HIPAA and CAP/CLIA regulatory environments.

• Methodologies: Working knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies.

• Data Capabilities: Basic data analysis skills (such as experience utilizing SQL or Excel for simple data pulls and reporting) to support incident trend analysis.

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CHI - $75000 - $110000

The expected salary range above is applicable if the role is performed from Illinois and may vary for other locations (California Colorado New York). Actual salary may vary based on qualifications and experience. Tempus offers a full range of benefits which may include incentive compensation restricted stock units medical and other benefits depending on the position.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status. 

What We Do

We bring together one of the world’s largest libraries of multimodal clinical and molecular data with a robust suite of AI tools to help physicians personalize care in real time connect patients with therapies and clinical trials and enable partners to accelerate discovery and development of new treatments. With ~8 million de-identified research records and 350+ petabytes of data Tempus partners with more than half of U.S. oncologists and the majority of the top 20 global pharma companies. Our teams are pioneering work across oncology neurology psychiatry cardiology and beyond—transforming how care is delivered and therapies are developed. At Tempus every role contributes to our mission: to help each patient benefit from the experiences of those who came before. For more information visit tempus.com.

Why Work With Us

We’re looking for people who can change the world. People who question the status quo and refuse to shy away from tough problems. For builders who are never done building and the learners who are never done learning. Passionate individuals with undying curiosity who want to take on one of the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced—head on.

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