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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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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding STEM OPT Authorization as a Senior Application Analyst
Verify your CIP code before applying
Check that your degree's Classification of Instructional Programs code maps to a STEM-designated field recognized by ICE. Application analysis roles typically require computer science, information systems, or engineering degrees, so a mismatched CIP code can disqualify your extension before it starts.
Confirm E-Verify enrollment before accepting offers
Ask your recruiter for the company's E-Verify employer ID during the offer stage, not after signing. Employers must be actively enrolled in E-Verify to sponsor STEM OPT, and enrollment status can lapse, so verify it directly with the hiring team.
Build your I-983 training plan around systems deliverables
Frame your I-983 learning objectives around specific application analyst outputs: requirements documentation, system integration testing, and escalation workflows. Generic training plans draw DSO scrutiny, so tie each objective to a measurable project milestone your employer can supervise and sign off on.
Target employers with active LCA filings for analyst roles
Search Migrate Mate to find employers whose DOL Labor Condition Application history shows active filings for application analyst and systems analyst positions. This tells you which companies already understand technical visa sponsorship workflows, not just which ones claim to sponsor.
Use OFLC Wage Search to benchmark before negotiating
Look up the prevailing wage for Senior Application Analyst under SOC code 15-1211 in your metro area using OFLC Wage Search. Your offer must meet or exceed the applicable wage level, so knowing the floor before negotiations prevents compliance problems that could delay your I-983 approval.
Time your extension request to your OPT end date
File your STEM OPT extension with USCIS at least 90 days before your initial OPT expires. Late filings create an authorization gap that stops you from working, and Senior Application Analyst roles in enterprise environments often require continuous employment to maintain project access and security clearances.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Senior Application Analyst role qualify for STEM OPT?
Yes, if your degree is in a STEM-designated field such as computer science, information systems, or software engineering and the role's core duties involve technical systems work. The position typically falls under SOC code 15-1211, which USCIS and ICE recognize for STEM OPT eligibility. Confirm your specific degree's CIP code with your DSO before filing the extension.
What E-Verify requirement applies to my STEM OPT employer?
Your employer must be enrolled in E-Verify before you begin working under the STEM OPT extension. Enrollment at the time of hiring is not enough if it has since lapsed. Ask your HR contact to confirm the company's active E-Verify employer ID and verify it directly with E-Verify if needed. A lapsed enrollment invalidates your extension authorization.
What goes into the I-983 training plan for this role?
Your I-983 must describe the practical training you'll receive as a Senior Application Analyst, including specific learning objectives tied to systems analysis tasks, the supervision structure, and how the work relates to your STEM degree. Vague descriptions citing only job titles get flagged by DSOs. Include concrete deliverables such as requirements documentation, integration testing cycles, or platform migration projects.
How does cap-gap protection apply if I'm waiting on H-1B selection?
If your employer files an H-1B visa petition on your behalf before your OPT or STEM OPT expires, cap-gap automatically extends your work authorization through September 30 of that fiscal year. You can continue working as a Senior Application Analyst during this period without interruption. USCIS issues updated I-20 documentation reflecting the cap-gap extension, which your employer uses to confirm your continued authorization.
Where can I find Senior Application Analyst jobs that sponsor STEM OPT?
Use Migrate Mate to search for Senior Application Analyst positions at employers with verified E-Verify enrollment and active DOL Labor Condition Application filing history. Filtering by employers who already file LCAs for analyst roles significantly narrows your list to companies that understand and actively manage technical visa sponsorship, saving time during your OPT authorization window.