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Senior Informatics Specialist
- University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
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Req #: 247906
Department: UW MEDICINE IT SERVICES
Appointing Department Web Address: http://uwmits\_hires.uwmedicine.org/
Job Location Detail: **HYBRID - Primary work location is at the UW Tower in Seattle, WA**
Posting Date: 07/15/2025
Closing Info:
Open Until Filled
Salary: $10,881-$12,334 per month
Shift: First Shift
Notes:
As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, **click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-professional-staff-librarians-academic-contract-covered-exempt-20240419-a11y.pdf)**
**UW MEDICINE IT SERVICES** has an outstanding job opportunity for a **Senior Informatics Specialist** .
WORK SCHEDULE
+ 100% FTE – 40 hours per week
+ Day Shift – UW MEDICINE ITS SERVICES CORE HOURS ARE 08:00 – 17:00 (PST), Monday-Friday **DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTION** **UW Medicine IT Services (ITS)** is a shared services organization that supports all of UW Medicine. UW Medicine is comprised of Harborview Medical Center (HMC), UW Medical Center-Montlake Campus (UWMC-Montlake), UW Medical Center-Northwest Campus (UWMC-NW), Valley Medical Center (VMC), UW Medicine Primary Care (UWMPC), UW Physicians (UWP), UW School of Medicine (SOM), and Airlift Northwest (ALNW). ITS is responsible for the ongoing support and maintenance of the infrastructure and applications which support all these institutions, along with the implementation of new services and applications that are used to support and further the UW Medicine mission.
POSITION HIGHLIGHTS
+ HYBRID opportunity
+ Values-based work environment
+ Active departmental Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee
+ 15 days of vacation your first year – Also, 12 days of sick time, 1 personal holiday, and 11 paid holidays each year
+ 100% matching, 100% immediately vesting 403(b) **PRIMARY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES**
+ Consulting with customers, performing a detailed requirements analysis
+ Analyzing work process flows and technical solutions to bridge the gap between current and future state
+ Systems and process design and development
+ Training and staff development
+ Supporting system standardization and optimization
+ Leading workflow analysis and redesign and conducting gap analysis to identify opportunities to improve system and user efficiency
+ Providing knowledge of new enhancements and functionality to end users
+ Acting as a liaison between the clinical teams and ITS
+ Planning project strategy and solution implementation and coordinating with key stakeholders.
+ Documenting requirements for sign off, communication, and test script development **REQUIREMENTS**
+ Bachelor’s degree in Nursing
+ 5+ years of clinical experience in an inpatient and/or ambulatory health care setting, using electronic heath record systems, to include:
+ Quality Assurance experience through SDLC or project
+ Customer and clinical staff consulting experience
+ Experience eliciting customer requirements to respond to customer needs
+ Demonstrated strong business acumen, showing understanding of customers, applications, and project team skill level
+ Demonstrated ability to resolve conflict and ambiguity
+ Demonstrated adult education/training skills with a variety of audiences and computer skill levels
+ Excellent oral and written communication skills, including presentation, documentation, and analytical writing skills
+ Demonstrated understanding of hospital, ambulatory, and post-acute care operations, interdepartmental processes, and interdisciplinary interactions and workflows in the healthcare setting
+ Strong project management, change management, and team building skills **ABOUT UW MEDICINE – WHERE YOUR IMPACT GOES FURTHER**
UW Medicine is Washington’s only health system that includes a top-rated medical school and an internationally recognized research center. UW Medicine’s mission is to improve the health of the public?by advancing medical knowledge, providing outstanding primary and specialty care to the people of the region, and preparing tomorrow’s physicians, scientists and other health professionals.
All across UW Medicine, our employees collaborate to perform the highest quality work with integrity and compassion and to create a respectful, welcoming environment where every patient, family, student and colleague is valued and honored. Nearly 29,000 healthcare professionals, researchers, and educators work in the UW Medicine family of organizations that includes: Harborview Medical Center, UW Medical Center - Montlake, UW Medical Center - Northwest, Valley Medical Center, UW Medicine Primary Care, UW Physicians, UW School of Medicine, and Airlift Northwest.
**Become part of our team. (https://www.uwmedicine.org/jobs)** Join our mission to make life healthier for everyone in our community.
As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, **click here.**
University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.
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