Programmer Analyst Staff, IT
Full Time, 80 Hours per pay period, Day Shift
Covenant Health Overview:
Covenant Health is the region’s top-performing healthcare network with 10 hospitals, outpatient and specialty services, and Covenant Medical Group, our area’s fastest-growing physician practice division. Headquartered in Knoxville, Covenant Health is a community-owned integrated healthcare delivery system and the area’s largest employer. Our more than 11,000 employees, volunteers, and 1,500 affiliated physicians are dedicated to improving the quality of life for the more than two million patients and families we serve every year. Covenant Health is the only healthcare system in East Tennessee to be named a Forbes “Best Employer” seven times
Position Summary:
Under general supervision, responsible for all aspects of the development and implementation of assigned programming projects and provides a single point of contact for those projects. Ensures that technical and functional aspects of applications are operating correctly and available for all users.
Responsibilities
- Takes programming projects from original concept through final implementation. Defines project scope and objectives and conducts project meetings. Develops detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports.
- Interfaces with all areas affected by the project including end users, computer services, and client services. Provides analytical guidance to project team.
- Ensures adherence to quality standards and reviews project deliverables.
- Manages the integration of vendor tasks and reviews vendor deliverables.
- Prepares cost estimates for current and proposed projects, reflecting the equipment.
- Devises or modifies procedures to solve complex problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time, and form of desired results.
- Prepares detailed specifications from which programs will be written.
- Participates in the design, creation, and maintenance of computerized databases.
- Responsible for program design, coding, testing, debugging, and documentation.
- Works with management to develop database strategies to support company needs.
- Consults with and advises users on data access, conflicts, and usage.
- Other related duties as assigned.
Minimum Education
BS in information systems, computer science or a related field or equivalent work experience in functional area with training/emphasis on programming.
Minimum Experience
Minimum of five (5) years of related work experience required; experience in healthcare environment preferred. Has solid understanding of business or function for which applications are being designed. Has full technical knowledge of all phases of applications systems analysis and programming. Able to work under general supervision. IT project management experience preferred.
Licensure Requirement
None
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in information systems, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent work experience with programming training or emphasis.
- At least five years of related work experience.
- Solid understanding of the business or functional area for which applications are designed.
- Full technical knowledge of all phases of application systems analysis and programming.
- Healthcare environment experience.
- IT project management experience.
What We Do
Covenant Health is a not-for-profit, community-owned integrated healthcare delivery system headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee. It operates a regional network of hospitals and medical services across East Tennessee, providing acute and specialty care—including cardiology, cancer care, neurology, imaging, rehabilitation, urgent care, and behavioral health. Its mission is to improve the quality of life in the communities it serves through better health.
