Senior Systems Engineer

Established in 1920, Virginia Mason began as an 80-bed hospital with six physician offices. It was named after the daughters of James Tate Mason, MD, and John M. Blackford, MD, who co-founded the clinic with radiologist Maurice Dwyer, MD.

You will contribute to the strength of our Team Medicine approach to collaborative medicine and benefit from the changes enacted through our Virginia Mason Production System, a model that has transformed health care by providing patients with easier access to care, reducing errors, and continuously innovating patient safety and quality that has been adopted by other organizations here and abroad. Join us, and find out how many ways Virginia Mason offers you the chance to focus on what really matters - our patients.

This position provides expert on-site technical support for major enterprise vendor applications in order to keep the applications running as close to 7x24 as possible and as efficiently as possible. It also provides expert consulting services and performs technical tasks to install and maintain multiple production and non-production environments for fixes, enhancements and upgrades to vendor software.

• This position requires a Bachelor's degree (or the equivalent thereof) in MIS, IS, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration with emphasis in information systems, or a related field (e.g. statistics, mathematics, physics) with 2 - 4 years related experience.
• At least 4 years of application programming or scripting experience is required along with 2 years working with vendor products.
• Must have working knowledge of operating systems, databases, scripting, client server, data communications and network technologies.
• Must possess ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously, provide front line support working with vendor support, work overtime and be on call when required.
• Preferred requirements include over 2 years experience with applicable vendor software and a strong understanding of vendor software architecture or 3-tiered client server application.