Senior Solution Architect

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Job Summary

The Michigan Medicine Financial Systems team provides the leadership, oversight, and technical support for the suite of financial products, applications, and datasets used by the Finance Organization of Michigan Medicine for financial reporting, planning, analytics, and decision making. The team is responsible for delivering on-time enterprise-level reporting and business intelligence systems, managing concurrent high-visibility projects to support new initiatives, guiding data stewardship, and informing and supporting institutional enterprise objectives.

The Financial Systems Development team focuses on financial and operational strategic reporting initiatives, continuous improvement efforts within our environment, and technical support for organizational reimbursement and billing models. Responsibilities include all aspects of developing enterprise-level reporting solutions.

The Solutions Architect position is responsible for designing and administering enterprise-level reporting solutions, integrating cloud-hosted reporting applications, data warehouses, and critical organizational business processes. This position is responsible for analyzing and translating business, information, and technical requirements into enterprise-level reporting solutions. This role is responsible for researching and maintaining knowledge of current and emerging technologies to solve business problems with a focus on cloud-hosted solutions. Problem solving and developing integrated solutions within a complex, varied, and evolving technical landscape will be an essential part of this position. This role will propose changes in process, policy, standards, application, and data model design to peers and leadership. In addition, this position will partner with key stakeholders and leadership in requirement gathering and solution design, as well as work with vendor technical teams, enterprise architecture, application, and infrastructure teams, to deliver enterprise reporting solutions.

In performing the role, the Development Solutions Architect will need to possess strong technical knowledge and experience with relational database models, SQL, and multiple Oracle technologies, including Oracle Cloud Analytics and Cloud EPM applications. This role will require a strong understanding of finance, accounting, and health care business practices.

Responsibilities*

Technical Programming and Application Administration of Strategic Initiatives and Development 50%

• Responsible for the design and maintenance of data models within our relational data warehouse. Develops data modeling and is responsible for data acquisition, access analysis and design, archiving, recovery, and load strategy design and implementation
• Responsible for application administration and configuration to support all strategic initiatives and development for the following Michigan Medicine Financial Systems cloud-hosted applications:

Finance BI (Oracle Cloud Analytics application used for decision support across Michigan Medicine Finance)

Multiple Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Cloud Applications

• Designing enterprise-level reporting solutions that integrate our cloud-hosted reporting applications and data warehouse
• Responsible for maintaining and improving upon a reporting landscape design that is complex and varied in nature
• Integrates new and modified ETL processes with other Financial System processes with a focus on accuracy, efficiency, and automation
• Possesses and applies a broad knowledge of principles, practices, and procedures of Financial Systems data sets.
• Research and maintain knowledge of current application releases and emerging technological capabilities with a focus on cloud-hosted solutions in order to provide optimal business solutions.
• Work with vendor technical teams, internal enterprise architecture, and application infrastructure teams to resolve technical issues and understand systems dependencies and compatibility
• Research and address system vulnerabilities.

Documentation, Validation, and Governance 15%

• Prepares and conducts comprehensive testing and validation procedures
• Oversight of documentation, training, compliance, and handover to the production team for implementation
• Participate in the administration of business and project plans related to development initiatives

Advisory and Strategic Development 25%

• Propose changes in process, policy, standards, application, and data model design to peers and leadership
• Problem solving and troubleshooting within a complex, varied, and evolving technical landscape
• Identify and evaluate industry trends and advise leadership on the impact on our environment
• Work proactively to assess risks or changes affecting our environment and determine appropriate action plans to manage changes
• Utilize agile methodologies to define project scope and schedule while focusing on regular and timely delivery of value

Ad Hoc 10%

• Items may include, but are not limited to:

Conducting peer and end-user training

Support special projects within Financial Systems as well as Michigan Medicine Finance

Support compliance efforts across the organization

Assist with other projects as required to contribute to the efficiency and effectiveness of the work

Helpdesk and end-user support

Coach and mentor junior staff

Required Qualifications*

• BA/BS degree
• 1-5 years of experience and detailed knowledge of SQL (Intermediate)
• 5-7 years of experience and detailed knowledge of SQL (Senior)

Desired Qualifications*

• Clarity Certification or Proficiency
• Experience working with Financial and Clinical Healthcare data
• Experience working with health care billing and reimbursement data
• Experience with data modeling and relational databases
• Demonstrated creative critical thinking skills
• Ability to assess competing priorities, manage workflow, and meet operational deadlines
• Must work well independently and as part of a team.
• Able to demonstrate excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent collaboration and coordination skills for an effective relationship with multiple teams, subject matter experts (SMEs), and customers
• Experience with Data Extraction, Transformation, and Loading (ETL)
• Experience integrating data from multiple sources
• Knowledge and understanding of technical accounting principles
• Experience with Oracle Analytics Cloud or similar BI tools
• Understanding of common IT business analysis, and/or project management methodologies and best practices
• Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• Experience with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud applications
• Experience with multidimensional DBMS
• Experience with query, report writing, and data visualization tools

Why Join Michigan Medicine?

Michigan Medicine is one of the largest health care complexes in the world and has been the site of many groundbreaking medical and technological advancements since the opening of the U-M Medical School in 1850. Michigan Medicine is comprised of over 30,000 employees and our vision is to attract, inspire, and develop outstanding people in medicine, sciences, and healthcare to become one of the world's most distinguished academic health systems. In some way, great or small, every person here helps to advance this world-class institution. Work at Michigan Medicine and become a victor for the greater good.

What Benefits can you Look Forward to?

• Excellent medical, dental and vision coverage effective on your very first day
• 2:1 Match on retirement savings

Modes of Work

Positions that are eligible for hybrid or mobile/remote work mode are at the discretion of the hiring department. Work agreements are reviewed annually at a minimum and are subject to change at any time, and for any reason, throughout the course of employment. Learn more about the work modes.

Background Screening

Michigan Medicine conducts background screening and pre-employment drug testing on job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent job offer and may use a third-party administrator to conduct background screenings. Background screenings are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Pre-employment drug testing applies to all selected candidates, including new or additional faculty and staff appointments, as well as transfers from other U-M campuses.

Application Deadline

Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days. The review and selection process may begin as early as the eighth day after posting. This opening may be removed from posting boards and filled any time after the minimum posting period has ended.

U-M EEO Statement

The University of Michigan is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.