Lead Applications Administrator - IT Research

Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America’s heartland.

Work Shift:

8 Hours - Day Shifts (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Compensation:

Salary Range: $37.50 - $62.00 Pay starts at $37.50 and increases according to years of applicable experience.

Union Position:

No

Department Details

REDCap experience highly preferred.

REDCap Responsibilities:

System Administration & Maintenance: Oversee the overall functionality of the REDCap instance, apply software updates and patches.

Project Design & Build: Collaborate with researchers to translate study protocols into functional REDCap databases, surveys, and longitudinal instruments using data validation rules and calculated fields.

User Access & Security: Grant and manage user permissions, ensure data integrity, and implement data security controls to protect sensitive research information.

User Support & Training: Provide technical troubleshooting and training sessions for researchers, coordinators, and students on REDCap functionality and best practices.
Advanced Customization: Utilize programming and scripting languages (e.g., SQL, API integrations) to extend REDCap's capabilities and integrate with other institutional systems like Epic.

Compliance: Ensure all data collection and storage align with institutional policies, ethical guidelines, and regulatory standards.

Summary

The Lead Applications Administrator will be responsible for leading the team in technical design, planning, implementation, administration and maintenance for assigned applications.

Job Description

Actively participates with leadership to develop technical solutions that satisfy the business needs of the department. Provides recommendations and troubleshooting as appropriate. Provides leadership to staff in guidance, training, and escalations. Works with system administrators and applications analysts to perform day to day support, administration and maintenance of production, test and development application platforms. Configures and manages application usage, data integrity and system software release levels. Works with application vendors for configuration, enhancement requests and support escalations.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Information technology or related field required.

At least six years of application administration experience. Proven fault identification and analysis skills, critical thinking, ability to troubleshoot technologies. Operations experience supporting applications deployed in a multi-server environment.

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) certification strong preferred.

Sanford is an EEO/AA Employer M/F/Disability/Vet. 

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