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JR-3912
Location:
450 Brookline Ave, BOSTON, MA 02215
Category:
Operations
Employment Type:
Full time
Work Location:
Remote: occasional onsite
Salary/Pay Rate:
$115,800.00 - $127,700.00 per year
Overview
We are seeking a candidate with in-depth experience supporting Patient Access workflows across both inpatient and outpatient settings, with strong knowledge of Financial Clearance processes. The ideal candidate will have hands-on exposure to real-time eligibility verification, bed management, and service level authorizations, including knowledge of insurance workflows and systems to support prior authorization requirements. Epic Prelude and/or Grand Central certification strongly preferred.
In this role, you will provide day-to-day support for Patient Access business operations while continuously optimizing Epic to maximize workflow efficiency and improve both the end-user and patient experience, recognizing a highly matrixed environment. You will serve as a liaison between end users, operational leaders, IT support teams, and vendors to design, build, support, and enhance Epic solutions in a timely, high-quality manner—triaging and resolving incidents and service requests, troubleshooting workflow and build issues, and identifying root causes and process improvements to prevent recurring problems. You’ll also contribute to project implementations and medium-to-high complexity initiatives by gathering and analyzing requirements, documenting workflows, translating needs into build/configuration, coordinating testing and validation, supporting go-live readiness, and driving post-go-live stabilization and ongoing optimization with minimal guidance. The ideal candidate stays current on industry trends, regulatory and payer requirements, and emerging Epic functionality and third-party solutions, bringing forward recommendations that strengthen compliance, efficiency, and patient access continuity; familiarity with adjacent Epic applications such as Willow, Beacon, Cadence, and/or Ambulatory is strongly valued. Located in Boston and the surrounding communities, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is a leader in life changing breakthroughs in cancer research and patient care. We are united in our mission of conquering cancer, HIV/AIDS, and related diseases. We strive to create an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment where we provide compassionate and comprehensive care to patients of all backgrounds, and design programs to promote public health particularly among high-risk and underserved populations. We conduct groundbreaking research that advances treatment, we educate tomorrow's physician/researchers, and we work with amazing partners, including other Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Application Lifecycle & Technical Leadership: Leads design, development, testing, and maintenance of complex or specialty systems. Ensures system performance, scalability, and regulatory compliance. Drives roadmap input, standardization, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Business Analysis & Strategic Solution Design: Leads the discovery and translation of complex, cross-functional business requirements into scalable functional and technical solutions. Partners with business and technology stakeholders to define long-term, sustainable strategies that align with enterprise architecture and organizational goals. Analyzes workflows and systems to optimize operational efficiency and business outcomes.
- Testing, Quality & Risk Management: Leads test strategy, planning, and execution for complex enhancements and cross-functional initiatives, ensuring comprehensive validation across upstream, downstream, and integrated systems. Evaluates cross-functional process and data impacts to proactively identify risk, prevent operational disruption, and ensure high-quality, stable releases. Partners with technical teams and business stakeholders to resolve defects, strengthen test coverage, and continuously improve quality assurance practices.
- Operational Support & System Reliability: Oversees system operations including upgrades, enhancements, and integrations. Leads resolution of high-impact incidents and system issues. Improves reliability by conducting root-cause analyses for recurring high-impact incidents, managing corrective action plans, and coordinating with engineering/infra to implement and validate preventive measures. Maintains operational readiness by developing/updating runbooks and support documentation, coordinating on-call procedures, and mentoring others on operational best practices.
- Training, Documentation & Knowledge Transfer: Establishes and maintains training standards, documentation frameworks, and knowledge repositories to ensure consistency, sustainability, and operational readiness. Leads knowledge transfer for new implementations, enhancements, and process changes, ensuring stakeholders and support teams are prepared for adoption. Partners with operational leaders to ensure timely, accurate outward communication of system changes, risks, and adoption guidance.
- Collaboration & Vendor Management: Delivers high-quality, customer-focused support. Leads collaboration with vendors, engineering, and cross-functional teams. Supports enterprise-wide initiatives and integrations.
- Leadership & Mentorship: Provides guidance and mentorship to analysts. Delegates work initiatives and communicates project status to leadership.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Advanced experience configuring, optimizing, and troubleshooting complex applications.
- Ability to lead small to medium initiatives, prioritize work, and delegate tasks effectively.
- Advanced application configuration, optimization, and performance troubleshooting skills.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Proficiency with Microsoft 365 and project/scheduling tools (e.g., Microsoft Project or Smartsheet).
- Advanced integration and process knowledge; ensures compliance with SDLC, ITIL, and operational standards. May hold ITIL certification.
- Ability to lead multiple workstreams, making decisions to allocate resources and prioritize tasks across projects.
- Deep expertise in one or more application domains (e.g. EHR, ERP, CRM, HRIS); understands complex workflows, dependencies, and operational impacts.
- Participates in change and release management; independently applies integration knowledge to troubleshoot and support workflows.
- Systems thinking, risk assessment, and cross-team coordination capabilities.
Minimum Job Qualifications
- High school/GED/Diploma Required.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field preferred.
- 6 years of experience developing, supporting or operating software applications required.
- Experience developing, supporting or operating software applications in a healthcare setting preferred.
License/Certification/Registration Required:
- None
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- None
Patient Contact:
- None
At Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, we work every day to create an innovative, caring, and inclusive environment where every patient, family, and staff member feels they belong. As relentless as we are in our mission to reduce the burden of cancer for all, we are committed to having faculty and staff who offer multifaceted experiences. Cancer knows no boundaries and when it comes to hiring the most dedicated and compassionate professionals, neither do we. If working in this kind of organization inspires you, we encourage you to apply.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is an equal opportunity employer and affirms the right of every qualified applicant to receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, age, ancestry, military service, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.
Pay Transparency Statement
The hiring range is based on market pay structures, with individual salaries determined by factors such as business needs, market conditions, internal equity, and based on the candidate’s relevant experience, skills and qualifications.
For union positions, the pay range is determined by the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).
$115,800.00 - $127,700.00
Job Ref:
JR-3912
Location:
450 Brookline Ave, BOSTON, MA 02215
Category:
Operations
Employment Type:
Full time
Work Location:
Remote: occasional onsite
Salary/Pay Rate:
$115,800.00 - $127,700.00 per year
Overview
We are seeking a candidate with in-depth experience supporting Patient Access workflows across both inpatient and outpatient settings, with strong knowledge of Financial Clearance processes. The ideal candidate will have hands-on exposure to real-time eligibility verification, bed management, and service level authorizations, including knowledge of insurance workflows and systems to support prior authorization requirements. Epic Prelude and/or Grand Central certification strongly preferred.
In this role, you will provide day-to-day support for Patient Access business operations while continuously optimizing Epic to maximize workflow efficiency and improve both the end-user and patient experience, recognizing a highly matrixed environment. You will serve as a liaison between end users, operational leaders, IT support teams, and vendors to design, build, support, and enhance Epic solutions in a timely, high-quality manner—triaging and resolving incidents and service requests, troubleshooting workflow and build issues, and identifying root causes and process improvements to prevent recurring problems. You’ll also contribute to project implementations and medium-to-high complexity initiatives by gathering and analyzing requirements, documenting workflows, translating needs into build/configuration, coordinating testing and validation, supporting go-live readiness, and driving post-go-live stabilization and ongoing optimization with minimal guidance. The ideal candidate stays current on industry trends, regulatory and payer requirements, and emerging Epic functionality and third-party solutions, bringing forward recommendations that strengthen compliance, efficiency, and patient access continuity; familiarity with adjacent Epic applications such as Willow, Beacon, Cadence, and/or Ambulatory is strongly valued. Located in Boston and the surrounding communities, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is a leader in life changing breakthroughs in cancer research and patient care. We are united in our mission of conquering cancer, HIV/AIDS, and related diseases. We strive to create an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment where we provide compassionate and comprehensive care to patients of all backgrounds, and design programs to promote public health particularly among high-risk and underserved populations. We conduct groundbreaking research that advances treatment, we educate tomorrow's physician/researchers, and we work with amazing partners, including other Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Application Lifecycle & Technical Leadership: Leads design, development, testing, and maintenance of complex or specialty systems. Ensures system performance, scalability, and regulatory compliance. Drives roadmap input, standardization, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Business Analysis & Strategic Solution Design: Leads the discovery and translation of complex, cross-functional business requirements into scalable functional and technical solutions. Partners with business and technology stakeholders to define long-term, sustainable strategies that align with enterprise architecture and organizational goals. Analyzes workflows and systems to optimize operational efficiency and business outcomes.
- Testing, Quality & Risk Management: Leads test strategy, planning, and execution for complex enhancements and cross-functional initiatives, ensuring comprehensive validation across upstream, downstream, and integrated systems. Evaluates cross-functional process and data impacts to proactively identify risk, prevent operational disruption, and ensure high-quality, stable releases. Partners with technical teams and business stakeholders to resolve defects, strengthen test coverage, and continuously improve quality assurance practices.
- Operational Support & System Reliability: Oversees system operations including upgrades, enhancements, and integrations. Leads resolution of high-impact incidents and system issues. Improves reliability by conducting root-cause analyses for recurring high-impact incidents, managing corrective action plans, and coordinating with engineering/infra to implement and validate preventive measures. Maintains operational readiness by developing/updating runbooks and support documentation, coordinating on-call procedures, and mentoring others on operational best practices.
- Training, Documentation & Knowledge Transfer: Establishes and maintains training standards, documentation frameworks, and knowledge repositories to ensure consistency, sustainability, and operational readiness. Leads knowledge transfer for new implementations, enhancements, and process changes, ensuring stakeholders and support teams are prepared for adoption. Partners with operational leaders to ensure timely, accurate outward communication of system changes, risks, and adoption guidance.
- Collaboration & Vendor Management: Delivers high-quality, customer-focused support. Leads collaboration with vendors, engineering, and cross-functional teams. Supports enterprise-wide initiatives and integrations.
- Leadership & Mentorship: Provides guidance and mentorship to analysts. Delegates work initiatives and communicates project status to leadership.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Advanced experience configuring, optimizing, and troubleshooting complex applications.
- Ability to lead small to medium initiatives, prioritize work, and delegate tasks effectively.
- Advanced application configuration, optimization, and performance troubleshooting skills.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Proficiency with Microsoft 365 and project/scheduling tools (e.g., Microsoft Project or Smartsheet).
- Advanced integration and process knowledge; ensures compliance with SDLC, ITIL, and operational standards. May hold ITIL certification.
- Ability to lead multiple workstreams, making decisions to allocate resources and prioritize tasks across projects.
- Deep expertise in one or more application domains (e.g. EHR, ERP, CRM, HRIS); understands complex workflows, dependencies, and operational impacts.
- Participates in change and release management; independently applies integration knowledge to troubleshoot and support workflows.
- Systems thinking, risk assessment, and cross-team coordination capabilities.
Minimum Job Qualifications
- High school/GED/Diploma Required.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field preferred.
- 6 years of experience developing, supporting or operating software applications required.
- Experience developing, supporting or operating software applications in a healthcare setting preferred.
License/Certification/Registration Required:
- None
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- None
Patient Contact:
- None
At Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, we work every day to create an innovative, caring, and inclusive environment where every patient, family, and staff member feels they belong. As relentless as we are in our mission to reduce the burden of cancer for all, we are committed to having faculty and staff who offer multifaceted experiences. Cancer knows no boundaries and when it comes to hiring the most dedicated and compassionate professionals, neither do we. If working in this kind of organization inspires you, we encourage you to apply.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is an equal opportunity employer and affirms the right of every qualified applicant to receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, age, ancestry, military service, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.
Pay Transparency Statement
The hiring range is based on market pay structures, with individual salaries determined by factors such as business needs, market conditions, internal equity, and based on the candidate’s relevant experience, skills and qualifications.
For union positions, the pay range is determined by the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).
$115,800.00 - $127,700.00
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Align your degree to oncology research roles
Dana-Farber prioritizes OPT hires in roles where your degree field directly maps to the position. Use O*NET to confirm your SOC code aligns with the job title before applying. A mismatch here is the most common reason strong candidates get screened out early.
Confirm E-Verify enrollment before accepting offers
For STEM OPT, your employer must be enrolled in E-Verify before your 24-month extension begins. Ask Dana-Farber's HR team to confirm their E-Verify status during the offer stage, not after signing. A gap here can invalidate your extension entirely.
Target Dana-Farber's research and data science teams
OPT hires at cancer research institutes cluster in computational biology, biostatistics, and translational research roles. These departments run grant-funded projects that often have defined start dates and are more accustomed to working with F-1 students on fixed work authorization windows.
Start your OPT application 90 days before graduation
USCIS recommends submitting your OPT EAD application up to 90 days before your program end date. Your DSO at your university initiates the I-20 endorsement. Delays here push back your start date, which directly affects your availability window when Dana-Farber is ready to hire.
Use Migrate Mate to find Dana-Farber's H-1B filing history
Before accepting an OPT role, search Migrate Mate to review Dana-Farber's H-1B and EB-2 filing history by department and job title. This tells you how aggressively they convert OPT employees to long-term sponsorship, which matters when planning your immigration timeline beyond OPT.
Negotiate your start date around your EAD card arrival
Your EAD card is your legal authorization to work. Don't commit to a start date until USCIS has approved your OPT and issued the card. Processing currently runs several months, and starting even one day before your EAD is active creates an unauthorized employment violation under USCIS rules.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute OPT Eligibility: Frequently Asked Questions
Does Dana-Farber Cancer Institute sponsor OPT visas?
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute doesn't sponsor OPT directly. OPT is work authorization granted by USCIS to eligible F-1 students, not a visa that employers petition for. What Dana-Farber does is hire students who already hold a valid OPT EAD. For STEM OPT extensions, Dana-Farber must be enrolled in E-Verify, which enables the 24-month extension through your DSO.
Which departments at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute typically hire OPT students?
OPT students at Dana-Farber most commonly work in research operations, biostatistics, computational oncology, and clinical data management. These teams run multi-year grant-funded projects that align well with the OPT authorization window. Roles requiring direct patient care are typically excluded due to licensing requirements that most F-1 students on OPT don't yet hold.
How do I apply for OPT jobs at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute?
Apply through Dana-Farber's careers portal and indicate your OPT EAD status in your application. Have your I-20 with DSO endorsement, your EAD card, and your passport ready before your first HR conversation. Migrate Mate lists Dana-Farber roles filtered for OPT-compatible positions, which saves time identifying which openings are realistically accessible for F-1 students.
Does Dana-Farber Cancer Institute convert OPT employees to H-1B sponsorship?
Dana-Farber has a documented history of sponsoring H-1B visas for employees who join on OPT, particularly in research and technical roles. The H-1B is a separate petition that Dana-Farber files on your behalf. Cap-subject H-1B petitions must be filed in April for an October 1 start date, so timing your OPT end date around that window matters significantly.
How do I know if my role at Dana-Farber qualifies for a STEM OPT extension?
Your role must be in a qualifying STEM field as defined by the DHS STEM Designated Degree Program List, and your degree must match that classification. Cross-reference your job title against the O*NET occupation profile to confirm your SOC code falls under a STEM-designated category. Your DSO at your university makes the final determination and files the I-983 training plan with Dana-Farber's HR team.
How does Dana-Farber Cancer Institute hire OPT students?
OPT is work authorization granted directly to F-1 students after graduation — no employer petition is required. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute can hire OPT students as soon as their EAD card is approved. STEM degree holders can extend OPT by 24 months when their employer is enrolled in E-Verify. Most companies that hire OPT students also support the transition to H-1B when the student's OPT period is ending. Check Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's individual postings on Migrate Mate to confirm OPT acceptance per role.