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Senior Application Specialist

Job ID 13255 Location United States Job Category Information Technology Date posted 11/14/2025

Job Description

Grow your career at Cedars-Sinai!

Cedars-Sinai placed in the top 20 on Newsweek’s “World's Best Smart Hospitals 2024” list, which highlights hospitals that have excelled in the utilization of electronic functionalities, telemedicine, digital imaging, artificial intelligence and robotics.

The organization’s Healthtech excellence was acknowledged again, this time by the esteemed “CHIME Digital Health Most Wired“ recognition program. Cedars-Sinai was assigned a Level 10—the most prestigious level of certification—among more than 300 surveyed healthcare organizations. Cedars-Sinai netted high scores across multiple verticals and particularly excelled in areas of infrastructure, interoperability, and population health innovation.

Why work here?

Beyond an outstanding benefit package and competitive salaries, we take pride in hiring the best, most committed employees. Our staff reflects the culturally and ethnically diverse community we serve. They are proof of our dedication to creating a multifaceted, inclusive environment that fuels innovation and the gold standard of patient care we strive for.

What will you be doing in this role:

The Senior Report Developer (Sr. Application Specialist) works with users throughout the organization in gathering requirements, designing, and developing organization-wide reports. Create and reports, ad hoc requests, dashboards, and deliverables.  Designs, tests, and implements reports and data extracts from enterprise database sources. Writes structured Query Language (SQL) queries against a complex data models. Translate requests into the programming specifications as needed. Uses enterprise reporting tool across the organization. Provides ongoing support for production reporting environments. Ensure compliance with deliverable reporting requirements by performing quality data audits and analysis. Under minimal to no supervision, independently responsible for more complex projects. Considered highly skilled and proficient in the discipline of extracting and presenting data through technical methods SQL, views, stored procedures, BO universes, etc. Conducts complex work important to the organization. Provide consultation to users and lead cross-functional teams to address data and analytic issues.

  • Triages intake of data requests and seek understanding of technical requirements.
  • Uses SQL programming code to develop required reports.
  • Responsible for the development and delivery lifecycle during the following phases:
  • Requirement Assessment: Works with enterprise data intelligence analysts to analyze and understand business requirements.
  • Development: Based on requirements, develops functionality by following internal development standards. Technical solution to include detailed design documentation, code, configuration, and other supporting technical documents. Incorporates end-user requests and requirements to develop enterprise reporting solutions.
  • Testing: Performs unit, regression, connectivity and full end-to-end integration tests, when it applies; Supports quality insurance effort to gain user acceptance.
  • Delivery: Works collaboratively with inter-departmental and cross-departmental resources to migrate new or enhanced functionality from test to production. Provides effective communication across the team as appropriate. Follows change control standards and processes for release to production.
  • Facilitates design and technical meetings. Provides technical documentation to internal business and design teams.
  • Writes and optimizes moderately complex to advanced queries.
  • Deploys reports electronically using the appropriate enterprise reporting environment and strategy.
  • Manages the process of moving reports into a production mode.
  • Facilities the validation and testing of new or revised reports. Works with user to verify results and content, develops errors or exception reports when applicable and receives official user sign off on completed work.
  • Tracks, documents, and facilitates resolution of all reporting technical issues.  Keeps problem resolution log and proactively manages growth and utilization of analytic reporting products.
  • Maintains technical and end-user documentation. Utilizes a wide-range of business intelligence tools SAS, Crystal Reports, Microsoft Access and Business Objects. 
  • Maintains the business objects "universe" that supports report writing in that tool.
  • Primary/Secondary responsibility for maintenance of all on-line production reports and associated user accounts used throughout the organization.  Includes scheduling of reports, monitoring report updates from source files and notification of report availability and refresh schedule.  User account management includes creation of new accounts and deletion and revision to existing accounts.
  • Follows team standards, development methodology and processes for specification, implementation, testing, change management, distribution, and documentation of reports.

*Approved Remote States: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, Texas*


Qualifications

Experience Requirements:

Five (5) plus years of experience with SQL and experience with a range of query tools such as Oracle, SAS, Crystal Reports, Business Objects, Microsoft SQL, Tableau, etc.

Experience with patient care-oriented databases, hospital-based administrative database applications and data warehousing technology.

Experience in system analysis, user relations, and vendor interactions.

Knowledge of relation database technology and client-server applications.

Educational/Certification Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Healthcare, or related field.

Epic Certification preferred.


Req ID : 13255
Working Title : Senior Application Specialist
Department : EIS Report Development
Business Entity : Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Job Category : Information Technology
Job Specialty : Software/App Development
Overtime Status : EXEMPT
Primary Shift : Day
Shift Duration : 8 hour
Base Pay : $116,542.40 - $186,472

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We are caretakers and innovators committed to the pursuit of equitable healthcare. But health equity is not possible without representation. Our commitment to diversity goes beyond demographics or checking boxes. Our people must reflect the diverse identities, experiences and geographies of the communities and patients we serve – because that’s what our patients, colleagues and communities deserve Quality Care and Research—For All, By All.

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We offer competitive total compensation that includes pay, benefits, and other recognition programs for our employees. The base pay range shown above takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including knowledge/skills; relevant experience and training; education/certifications/licensure; and other business and organizational factors. This base pay range does not include our comprehensive benefits package and any incentive payments that may be applicable to this role. Pay Transparency Non-Discrimination Provision (PDF).

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Cedars-Sinai does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of the race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition (cancer-related or genetic characteristics or any genetic information), marital status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age (40 or older), military and/or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal or state law. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at Applicant_Accommodation@cshs.org and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.

Cedars-Sinai will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories, in accordance with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.

At Cedars-Sinai, we are dedicated to the safety, health and wellbeing of our patients and employees. This includes protecting our patients from communicable diseases, such as influenza (flu). For this reason, we require that all new employees receive a flu vaccine based on the seasonal availability of flu vaccine (typically during September through April each year) as a condition of employment, and annually thereafter as a condition of continued employment, subject to medical exemption or religious accommodation. For the same reason, you may also be required to receive other vaccines as a condition of employment. Cedars-Sinai reserves the right to make modifications to its required list of vaccines as required by law and/or policy.

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Career Path

We offer many career paths to support your immediate and future success.

  • CS-Link Associate Application Specialist
  • CS-Link Application Specialist I
  • CS-Link Application Specialist II
  • CS-Link Senior Application Specialist
  • CS-Link Lead Application Specialist or EIS Application Architect (CS-Link)
  • Manager, Application Development

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