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City/State Albemarle, NC Work Shift First (Days) Overview: Sentara is hiring a Lead IT QA Analyst! This position is fully remote! Overview The Lead IT Analyst is responsible for the support, optimization, and enhancement of software applications, ensuring efficient system performance and integration with business and clinical operations. This role involves evaluating software releases, analyzing business needs, troubleshooting application issues, and recommending solutions to improve processes and reduce costs. The Lead IT Analyst plays a key role in workflow assessments, system testing, and project coordination, while also providing on-call application support and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technology with organizational goals. This role is ideal for a seasoned IT professional who excels in application support, process optimization, and cross-functional collaboration while leading strategic technology initiatives within an organization. The Lead IT Analyst provides day-to-day support and maintenance for enterprise software applications by performing application builds, upgrades, and system enhancements to optimize performance, troubleshooting application-related issues, ensuring timely resolution and minimal disruption and evaluating software releases and updates to determine business and clinical impacts. The Lead IT Analyst is responsible for conducting workflow assessments to identify functional requirements for optimal application utilization; collaborating with business and clinical stakeholders to align technology solutions with operational needs; providing recommendations for process improvements and cost reduction strategies and supporting testing and quality assurance. The incumbent will also be responsible for incident, problem and change management relative to service requests and change control processes to ensure seamless application performance and coordinate project planning and implementation for software application releases. The Lead IT Analyst will serve as a subject matter expert (SME), provide guidance and training to lower-level analysts and support process improvement initiatives within the IT department. Education Bachelor's Degree (Preferred) Certification/Licensure No specific certification or licensure requirements Experience Relevant prior experience Benefits: Caring For Your Family and Your Career • Medical, Dental, Vision plans • Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000 • Paid Time Off and Sick Leave • Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave • Emergency Backup Care • Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans • Life Insurance • 401k/403B with Employer Match • Tuition Assistance – $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education • Student Debt Pay Down – $10,000 • Reimbursement for certifications and free access to complete CEUs and professional development •Pet Insurance •Legal Resources Plan •Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met. Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves. In support of our mission “to improve health every day,” this is a tobacco-free environment. For positions that are available as remote work, Sentara Health employs associates in the following states: Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Sentara Health is a Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina based not-for-profit integrated healthcare provider that has been in business for over 131 years. Offering hundreds of sites of care including 12 hospitals, PACE, home health, hospice, medical groups, imaging services, therapy, outpatient surgery centers, and an 858,000 member health plan. The people of the communities that we serve have nominated Sentara “Employer of Choice” for over ten years. U.S. News and World Report has recognized Sentara as having the Best Hospitals for 15+ years. Sentara offers professional development and a continued employment philosophy!