Why Work at Children's....

Here, it’s different. Come join us.

Children's Hospital Colorado has defined and delivered pediatric healthcare excellence for more than 100 years.

Here, the nation’s brightest nurses, physicians, scientists, researchers, therapists, and care providers are creating the future of child health. With an optimist’s outlook, a trailblazing spirit, and a celebrated history, we’re making new strides every day.

We’ve been Magnet-designated four times by the American Nurses Credentialing Center and are consistently recognized among the best of the best pediatric hospitals with #1 rankings in Colorado and the region by U.S. News & World Report.

As a national leader in pediatric care, we serve children and families from all over the nation. Our System of Care includes four pediatric hospitals, 11 specialty care centers, 1,300+ outreach clinics and more than 10,000 healthcare professionals representing the full spectrum of pediatric care specialties.

Here, we know it takes all of us, every role, to deliver the best possible care to each child and family we treat.

That’s why we build our teams toward a foundation of equity in access, advancement, and opportunity. We know teams of individuals with different identities and backgrounds can nurture creativity and innovation. We know we can see, treat, and heal children better when our team reflects the diversity of our patient population. We strive to attract and retain diverse talent because we know a truly inclusive and equitable workforce will help us one day realize our most basic calling: to heal every child who comes through our doors.

A career at Children's Colorado will challenge you, inspire you, and motivate you to make a difference in the life of a child. Here, it’s different.

Job Overview

This position is responsible for standard level work in systems analysis, design and applications programming for single and multiple information systems, software applications, architectures, data warehouses, databases, and data extraction and reporting. Duties include designing, planning, testing, implementing, maintenance, problem solving, documenting, and developing software code, standards, principles and practices.

Specifically, this Engineer will facilitate the validation and implementation of predictive models into the electronic medical record. This includes translating models developed in other languages to python, and using various tools such as Slate. This position will also set up the data pipelines for model consumption and Machine Learning operations to monitor models. This will require understanding of data models, data pipelines, SQL programming, software development lifecycle. This position is expect to have a high level of autonomy, in addition to collaborating with internal staff and customers (technical and clinical) and external collaborators (technical and clinical). This position interfaces frequently with analysts and staff to develop database scripts against disparate data sources, and has opportunities to publish work in collaboration with colleagues. This position is a critical resource in developing and applying research informatics and engineering techniques to obtain, validate, standardize, and manage scientific and clinical concepts, data and models.

Additional Information

Department: CCHRI-Research Informatics
Hours per week: 40, eligible for benefits
Shift: Monday – Friday, 8am-5pm. Work hours may vary depending on the needs of the department.

Qualifications

EDUCATION – Bachelor's degree is required.
- BS or MS in Computer Science is preferred.
EXPERIENCE – Minimum of three (3) years of related experience is required.
EQUIVALENCY – Combination of post-high school education, job related certification and/or related experience equivalent to seven (7) years may be considered in lieu of minimum requirements.
Preference given to those applicants who have proficiency in Slate, Docker, Jupyter Notebook and Python.

Responsibilities

POPULATION SPECIFIC CARE

No direct patient care.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
An employee in this position may be called upon to do any or all of the following essential functions. These examples do not include all of the functions which the employee may be expected to perform.

Analyzes, designs, builds, modifies, implements, tests and debugs new or existing software applications, architectures, databases, and systems integration to automate business processes, as applicable.
Prepares time lines, project plans and flow charts for the development or enhancement of new and existing software application programs.
Gathers, analyzes and documents business and user requirements, functional requirements and data specifications.
Designs, writes and documents technical specifications to design or redesign complex applications.
Collaborates with applications staff and users of information systems to evaluate, plan, design, develop, test, implement, and maintain application development efforts and/or reports. Works with applications staff to translate and document user needs and system requirements into report specification and/or technical documents. Integrates data between multiple systems for reporting as necessary.
Collaborates with database tuning and configuring; developing backup and recovery processes, repeatable methods to refresh non-production environments from production, data life-cycle management, and system upgrades. Writes stored procedures, packages, and functions.
Recommends, develops and creates peripheral technologies and IT processes in support of application platforms.
Recommends, develops, documents and maintains software coding and development standards, principles and practices.
Troubleshoots performance and system availability problems ensuring quality of the enterprise application and/or data warehouse. Consults with end users and information technology staff to identify user problems.
Designs, develops, tests, debugs, implements, and prepares flow charts for both new and existing systems.
Participates in Production Support on-call rotation as necessary.

Other Information

SCOPE AND LEVEL

Guidelines: Possesses knowledge of and applies the fundamental concepts, practices and procedures within a particular field of specialization.
Complexity: Duties and tasks are varied and somewhat complex, but usually involve limited responsibility. Procedures, methods and techniques to carry out work may not be well defined, requiring greater analysis.
Decision Making: Has some discretion in making some decisions. Decisions and recommendations are made after contemplative analysis and with independent judgment and ingenuity. May escalate the most complex and important decisions to a higher level employee, supervisor and/or manager.
Communication: Communicates explanatory and/or interpretive information relative to the organization and/or own function with team members, peers, management, clients and in limited cases, the public. Uses some discretion and independent judgment when information is exchanged, gathered and/or presented. Defers to higher level team members and/or management in many situations.
Supervision Received: Works under some supervision, conferring with higher level employees, supervisor and/or manager as needed.

Physical Requirements

PHYSICAL REQUIRMENTS

Vision - Near: clear vision at 20 inches or less
Weight Lifted/Force Exerted: up to 10 pounds/4.5 kilos, up to 1/3 of time
Hearing: able to clearly hear details
Sit: 2/3 or more of time
Talk: able to communicate verbally
Mental/Emotional: able to work in close proximity to others and/or in a distracting environment
Mental/Emotional: able to cope with stress effectively
Mental/Emotional: able to prioritize effectively

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Mental/Emotional: able to tolerate ambiguity
Mental/Emotional: able to prioritize effectively
Mental/Emotional: may be subject to many interruptions
Office Work Environment: Regular/frequent exposure
Bloodborne Pathogen Category 2: Occasional exposure to blood/body fluid

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information.

The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.

Salary Information

Annual Salary Range (Based on 40 hours worked per week): $94,871.97 to $142,307.96
Hourly Salary Range: $45.61 to $68.42

Benefits Information

Here, you matter. As a Children’s Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children’s Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.