Job Title: Systems Engineer - Speciality
Project Duration: 12 Months
Location: 100% Remote
Role Description:
Cerner Millennium Charge Services and Cerner Patient Accounting Application Owner
About Role:
Specialty justification: due to the requirement for specialized experience supporting both Cerner Millennium Patient Accounting and Charge Services applications. The combination of these specific healthcare revenue cycle application skills significantly reduces the available candidate pool and requires advanced application ownership and domain expertise
Position Summary:
- Seeking an experienced Application Owner to serve as the strategic owner and subject matter expert for Cerner Millennium Patient Accounting and Charge Services applications.
- Responsible for evaluating business needs, defining application strategy, supporting project initiatives, and ensuring technology solutions align with operational and organizational objectives.
- Leads application roadmap planning, product lifecycle management, governance activities, and stakeholder engagement efforts.
- Partners with business leaders, informatics teams, vendors, and technical teams to support solution design, optimization, and application enhancements.
- This position focuses on application ownership, strategy, governance, requirements gathering, and solution design, with limited hands-on build responsibilities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the design, development, and testing of Cerner Charge Services and Cerner Millennium Patient Accounting solutions.
- Lead the evaluation and implementation of application features to replace or enhance existing functionality while ensuring alignment with current and future business processes.
- Define and maintain the product vision, roadmap, and growth strategy for Cerner Charge Services and Cerner Patient Accounting applications.
- Identify opportunities for application conversion, optimization, innovation, and domain-specific enhancements.
- Develop and manage the application roadmap while considering lifecycle management, strategic alignment, scalability, risk mitigation, and business value delivery.
- Conduct discovery sessions and collaborate with stakeholders to gather, analyze, and document business and functional requirements.
- Review and evaluate incoming requests for new functionality, enhancements, and project initiatives.
- Work as a member of multiple project teams simultaneously, supporting planning, execution, and solution delivery.
- Review project requests and provide estimates regarding effort, time, cost, resources, and implementation considerations.
- Partner with vendors, market leaders, business stakeholders, informatics teams, and Ascension Technologies teams to ensure cohesive planning and execution.
- Represent Cerner Charge Services and Cerner Patient Accounting applications in governance forums and strategic planning discussions.
- Communicate product, application, and technology roadmaps effectively to stakeholders and leadership.
- Provide subject matter expertise on application capabilities, workflows, future-state design, and strategic direction.
- Support application governance, technology planning, and organizational initiatives.
- Serve as a trusted advisor and primary application owner for Patient Accounting and Charge Services solutions.
Required Qualifications:
- 3-5 years of experience supporting Cerner Charge Services and Cerner Millennium Patient Accounting applications.
- Experience implementing, optimizing, enhancing, or supporting Cerner Patient Accounting and Charge Services solutions preferred.
- Strong understanding of healthcare revenue cycle processes and workflows.
- Experience gathering requirements, facilitating discovery sessions, and supporting solution design initiatives.
- Ability to work independently, effectively manage priorities, and collaborate within a team environment.
Basic knowledge of the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including:
- Business and systems analysis
- Requirements gathering
- Functional specification development
- Development and testing processes
- Solution delivery and implementation
- Experience supporting enterprise-level projects and cross-functional initiatives.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to influence stakeholders and facilitate discussions across business and technical teams.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree preferred.
- 5-7 years of overall healthcare technology, healthcare application, or revenue cycle experience preferred.
- Experience serving as an Application Owner, Product Owner, Business Analyst, Consultant, or similar strategic application leadership role.
- Experience participating in governance, roadmap planning, and technology strategy initiatives.
- Experience working within large healthcare systems or enterprise healthcare environments.
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