The Washington University in St. Louis is looking to solve the problem of strategic configuration, support, and optimization of Epic Beacon, Research, and Genomics-related applications within the organization's electronic health record (EHR) ecosystem to support precision medicine and evidence-based care delivery.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Healthcare Informatics, Computer Science, Nursing, or a related field.
- Relevant Experience (2 Years)
- Epic experience, including at least two years in Beacon, Research, or Genomics modules (preferred).
- Epic certifications in Beacon Oncology, Epic Research, or Genomics (preferred).
- Clinical Applications
- Clinical Research
- Data Governance
- Genomics
- Molecular Analysis
Responsibilities
- Oversee the configuration, implementation, and ongoing optimization of Epic Beacon, Epic Research, and Genomics modules, ensuring alignment with clinical, operational, and research workflows.
- Develop and enforce organizational policies, standards, and guidelines for software configuration, design, deployment, refactoring, testing, and system performance across WashU Medicine and BJC IT.
- Ensure successful integration of genomic data and external laboratory interfaces—including molecular pathology systems and genomic repositories—within Epic and related systems.
- Direct project planning and execution, including timelines, budgets, resource allocation, team assignments, quality reviews, and issue escalation, while proactively identifying and mitigating risks.
- Promote a culture of quality by driving the adoption of testing standards, leading test planning, test execution, scenario development, and oversight of quality review and change-related risk management.
- Champion high-quality user experience by engaging end users in workflow and configuration evaluations, gathering and acting on feedback, and iteratively improving system usability and functionality.
- Drive enterprise efforts related to biomedical data interoperability, clinical trial management, and integration across Epic and ancillary platforms.
Other
- Lead and mentor teams of Epic analysts and IT operational professionals, providing direction, prioritization, staffing oversight, workload management, performance evaluations, and professional development.
- Partner with oncology, research, pathology, genomics, and other stakeholder groups to translate business, clinical, and scientific requirements into effective Epic and enterprise technology solutions.
- Bachelor's degree or combination of education and/or experience may substitute for minimum education.
- Master's degree (preferred).
- Five years of Epic experience (preferred)
