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Kaiser Permanente

Integrated healthcare provider and payer platform

Histology Systems Administrator 4 - Applications

Enterprise ApplicationsPosted on Nov 12
Full-timeNorth Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Social Science, Education, Business, Health Care, or a related field, plus at least six years of experience working in IT or operations; equivalent additional work experience may substitute for the degree requirement.
  • At least three years of experience in application support.
  • At least one year in an informal leadership role working with IT or operational teams.

Responsibilities

  • Manage digital pathology workflows, expand scanning capacity and use across SCAL, and provide histology coverage.
  • Use supervisory skills to oversee Digital Pathology and associated staff, assist managers with departmental workflows as needed, and assist at the Chino Hills Histology lab if needed.
  • Lead the incident and problem management process by resolving complex issues, conducting root cause analysis, coordinating prevention-plan execution, and addressing escalations.
  • Complete work assignments and support business-specific projects by applying subject-area expertise, supporting work plans that meet business priorities and deadlines, ensuring the team follows procedures and policies, coordinating and assigning resources, collaborating cross-functionally on business decisions, solving complex problems, escalating high-priority issues or risks, and identifying improvement opportunities.
  • Promote learning and self-development by sharing information, resources, advice, and expertise with coworkers and customers; building cross-functional stakeholder relationships; influencing others through technical explanations and examples; adapting to competing demands and responsibilities; seeking and addressing performance feedback; providing feedback to others and managers; executing development plans; supporting team collaboration; and adapting to change and feedback.
  • Meet timelines to deliver appropriate, sustainable, and prompt solutions.
  • Assist technical and project team members in resolving system problems and application-specific issues.
  • Support enterprise-system stability, availability, and performance by conducting complex systems analysis to identify problems, trends, and improvement opportunities across systems, applications, networks, databases, storage, and security.
  • Provide first- and second-level support for enterprise systems and other IT domains by diagnosing, troubleshooting, and resolving complex incidents.
  • Escalate unresolved or critical issues, risks, or problems to system engineers.
  • Communicate with product users and suppliers to share information, identify opportunities, resolve problems, prioritize customer requirements, and support continuous improvement through customer feedback.
  • Plan and perform complex system configuration.
  • Participate in the installation, upgrade, or decommissioning of designated systems, products, and infrastructure.
  • Document new and existing system configurations and procedures, ensuring configuration documentation is complete and accurate.
  • Plan hardware and software changes in production environments by conducting impact analyses of system changes.
  • Support vendor activities as appropriate.
  • Participate in and influence change-management processes.
  • Define the maintenance, modification, and documentation of complex and advanced applications.
  • Support the development of guidelines to prevent or resolve recurring problems.
  • Recommend and execute performance-tuning and optimization activities.

Desired Qualifications

  • Three years of experience working in a large matrixed organization.
  • Four years of experience writing documentation or standard operating procedures related to system administration.
  • HT(ASCP) certification.

About the Company

Kaiser Permanente

Integrated healthcare provider and payer platform

Kaiser Permanente runs an integrated healthcare platform that lets members manage and pay medical, premium, and pharmacy bills online. It serves Medicare Advantage, Individual and Family, and non-employer plans, offering options to pay as a guest or set up payment plans. The platform works by presenting a centralized online portal where users can view bills, choose how to pay, and handle multiple types of charges in one place. Revenue comes from premiums and medical services fees, while the service aims to reduce administrative work for both providers and patients and encourage on-time payments. What sets Kaiser Permanente apart is its combination of healthcare services with a single billing experience across multiple plan types, focusing on a user-friendly, centralized payment process rather than handling billing through separate systems. Its goal is to provide a straightforward, reliable way for members to manage and pay their bills, improving convenience and payment timeliness.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Grant
Total funding
$7.5M
Headquarters
Oakland, CA
Founded
1945

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