Senior Business Architect/Solution Designer

Senior Business Architect/Solution Designer
TeleTracking Technologies, the world leader of patient flow automation solutions to the healthcare industry, is seeking an experienced Senior Business Architecht/Solution Designer for the the creation of comprehensive, well-analyzed functional specifications used by software engineers, QA specialists and other stakeholders as a blueprint for creating software applications that meet or exceed project requirements. All other software development artifacts will be measured for accuracy and completeness against these specifications.  This position is based at our Pittsburgh Headquarters.  To apply please go to www.teletracking.com and click on Careers.

Reports to: CTO

General Purpose of Job: The Senior Business Architect / Solution Designer is responsible for the creation of
comprehensive, well-analyzed functional specifications used by software engineers, QA specialists and other stakeholders as a blueprint for creating software applications that meet or exceed project requirements. All other software development artifacts will be measured for accuracy and completeness against these specifications.


Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
The Senior Business Architect / Solution Designer performs the following as pertains to a
Tele-Tracking Technologies’ product or solution:
-Writes comprehensive functional specifications from requirements documents
 and input from other domain and technical design sources.  Insures accuracy,
 completeness, clarity and simplification of functional specifications.
-Presents functional specifications to internal stakeholders for review/acceptance
 and compliance with requirements. 
-Revises functional specifications as necessary throughout the development
 lifecycle.
-Provides development expertise in bridging domain requirements to
 developer/QA-ready functional specifications.

The Senior Business Architect / Solution Designer also:
-Creates well-defined, well-written and well-organized functional specifications.
-Conducts analytical review meetings as required with domain experts to acquire
 the details needed to write functional specifications.
-Facilitates the clarification of functional specification issues as they arise during
 the development process.
-Creates visual models, charts, flow diagrams and other specification
 components that facilitate simplification and abstraction.
-Creates initial business object (entity) diagrams that can be used to initiate
 database design.
-Creates user interface mockups and associated behavioral rules to define
 navigation, validation, data relationships and trigger events.
-Defines business rules that are complete and unambiguous including supporting
 formulas, algorithms, data queries, process steps and decision points.
-Presents functional specifications to internal stakeholders.
-Identifies exception conditions and alternate use case paths not identified in
 requirements documentation.
-Provides report layouts, filters, groupings, subtotals and data mapping rules.
-Defines impact of enhancement/project to other integrated applications.
-Maintains revision history
-Defines glossary of significant terms as a component part of the functional
 specification.
-Insures traceability of requirements throughout the functional specification.

Basic Qualifications: Education, Experience and Skills:

-BS/BA in computer science, informatics or equivalent combination of education and experience
-6 or more years experience developing functional specifications for commercial software products
-Strong analytical skills.
-Strong communication, presentation and writing skills
-Strong abstraction, organization and simplification skills
-Detailed understanding of business processes
-Healthcare domain knowledge
-Commercial software development experience
-Knowledge of fundamental relational database design concepts
-Ability to read and interpret fundamental SQL queries
-Understanding of event-driven, object-oriented technologies
-Understanding of functional specification approaches that lead to successful technical design and test case development.
-Strong process definition skills
-Experience defining Use Cases
-Knowledge of  UML concepts
-Skilled at abstracting process details from domain experts
-Skilled at analyzing and mapping complex processes
-Skilled at identifying exception conditions
-Knowledge of software development lifecycle and common SDLC methodologies
-Knowledge of commercial software company operations
 

Physical Requirements: Normal Office Conditions, Work in Pittsburgh Office, occasional travel may be necessary.

The above statements are intended to provide the general nature and level of work being performed by most people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and requirements Tele Tracking Technologies, Inc. employees shall adhere to all of Tele Tracking Technologies policies and procedures including those relating to confidentiality and security of our data assets.  This includes limiting individual’s access to only that protected information necessary to perform job duties as required under HIPAA. 
 
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