Solution Designer III

Are you interested in learning about healthcare professions and the latest healthcare innovations in the KC area? Become part of an organization that is dedicated to making a difference in both your career and community.

Job Description Summary :

The Solution Designer III gathers and analyzes requirements to solve complex problems and evaluates intricate scenarios to create advanced solutions across multiple systems. This individual develops a deep understanding of multiple systems, the business needs, and the associated capabilities. This role contributes to the long-term roadmap of the given solutions and serves as a liaison between business and technology teams to provide future outcomes and support decisions.

Job Description

• Leads in designing, documenting, and evaluating information system solutions, considering functionality, data, security, integration, infrastructure, and performance.
• Translates business needs into a high-level functional design of the system; documents the design in the form of user stories.
• Identifies solution gaps and makes future state proposals; Collaborates with software engineers to flush out a technical approach.
• Articulates business needs to development staff.
• Provides low-fidelity mock-ups of functional designs.
• Acts as product owner when needed, balancing stakeholder priorities and technical debt.
• Coordinates and facilitates across multiple business units and technology teams on complex solutions.
• Ensures traceability from the requirements to the test plans that validate them.
• Assists the IT testing team with planning and coordination of user acceptance with stakeholders. Works closely with the IT testing team to ensure a smooth testing process. Provides input to the IT testing team on various testing scenarios and test data preparations.
• Participates in regular demonstrations to both IT and business stakeholders. Provides subject matter expertise on given solutions.
• Provides guidance to user community on best utilization of solutions to meet their needs.
• Performs as a lead over community of practice groups to collaborate on strategy, standards, and areas for improvement.
• Mentors and coaches less experienced Solution Designers and employees in similar roles.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• 5 years’ experience gathering requirements and performing functional design.
• Experience using SQL to query data from a database; thorough understanding of types of joins and join criteria.
• Excellent ability to obtain user requirements and translate into technical solutions.
• Excellent ability to explain technical concepts to lay audiences.
• Experience analyzing ETL data mappings and processes

Preferred Qualifications

• 5 years’ experience using moderate to advanced SQL.
• Thorough understanding of the software development life cycle.
• Experience in healthcare or the insurance industry.
• Thorough understanding of application architecture.
• Experience working in both Waterfall and Agile environments.
• Experience supporting ERP systems and/or Workday integrations
• Experience using Crystal Reporting