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The Smidt Heart Institute reflects Cedars-Sinai's steadfast dedication to heart disease and research innovation giving patients access to the highest level of care. Year after year, thousands of people trust their hearts to Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai. Our cardiologists, cardiac surgeons and specialized care teams treat the full spectrum of heart disease and disorders, while our investigators continue to advance the field with groundbreaking, life-saving research. From genetic counseling and targeted drug therapies to a growing array of minimally invasive procedures, Cedars-Sinai continues to stand at the forefront of technology, innovation and discovery improving patient outcomes.

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Job Summary:

The Senior Programmer Analyst is involved in all aspects of analyses conducted within the Smidt Heart Institute and provides technical expertise in a variety of areas. You will perform analyses on sophisticated problems, both statistical and from a data management perspective. Manages and develops study databases for analyses use, often working with sophisticated file structures, and serves as a resource to users of the databases. Verifies study results in draft abstracts, manuscripts, and presentations and clear documentation of all projects.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Functions as the single point of contact to a multi-functional team for a variety of managed applications. Responsible for the development and delivery lifecycle during the following phases:

1. Requirement Assessment: Works with inter-departmental teams to analyze and understand business requirements. Provides oversight during the requirements gathering phase of a project. Accurately details new requirements, improvements to existing functionality, and implementation deficiencies that need to be addressed.
2. Development: Based on requirements, develops functionality by following internal development standards. Technical solution to include detailed design documentation, code, configuration, and other supporting technical documents.
3. Testing: Performs unit, regression, connectivity and full end-to-end integration tests, when it applies; Supports quality insurance effort to gain user acceptance.
4. Delivery: Works closely with inter-departmental and cross-departmental resources to migrate new or enhanced functionality from test to production. Provides effective communication across the team as appropriate. Follows change control standards and processes for release to production.

• Functions as a liaison with end users, research groups and other business support areas.
• Facilitates design and technical meetings. Provides technical documentation to internal business and design teams.
• Teaches, guides and mentors junior-level programmer/analysts.
• Provides systems support during special events such as critical system upgrades, integration platform upgrades, new application go-lives, application failover exercises and disaster recovery drills.
• Implements enterprise policies for security and confidentiality at the system and inter-system level

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Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or related field preferred.
• 5+ years of experience leading application design, software development, and maintenance. Required.
• At least 5+ years related experience in a sophisticated, multiplatform environment.
• Demonstrated experience using various programming and scripting languages. Expertise with Unix, Linux and Windows operating systems.
• Demonstrated grasp of relational data modeling techniques.
• Understanding of Unified Modeling Language tools and how they are applied to OO design.
• Highly skilled in system performance tuning.