Sr. Automation Strategist

Overview

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Family-focused benefits

Wellness incentives

Ongoing mentorship, development, and leadership programs

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100% remote opening, however applicants residing in or able to relocate to the following states are eligible for hire: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin

Description

Emory Healthcare is seeking a Sr. Automation Strategist with deep experience in technology-driven development initiatives and enterprise strategy to support our growing UiPath Automation Team. This role is responsible for shaping and implementing strategies related to automation, data, analytics, business intelligence, and AI across academic, research, and healthcare environments. The strategist will drive cross-enterprise collaboration, governance, and transformation initiatives that align with institutional goals, unlock new value, and ensure sustainable growth through innovation. The ideal candidate combines strategic thinking with technical fluency, stakeholder management, and process optimization.

This invidual will serve as a healthcare process improvement leader who has served as a Business Analyst, Process Engineer, Operational Excellence Consultant, Healthcare Consultant, Product Owner, or Project Manager, and has experience building business cases and facilitating executive discussions, and can independently identify, prioritize, and drive automation opportunities from intake through value realization.  This position works on an Automation Development team and you will partner with those team members who will be performing the technical dev scope of these worksteams.

This is a 100% remote opening, eligible states we can hire from are noted in our overview, and will also be listed in our application.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Process Discovery & Analysis (Most Important)

Quickly understand workflows within each department you interact with

Facilitate process mapping sessions

• Separate symptoms from root causes
• Identify automation opportunities versus process redesign opportunities
• Challenge inefficient processes before automating them

Business Case & ROI Development

Quantify benefits

Estimate effort vs value

Define KPIs

Build executive-level business cases

Prioritize competing opportunities

Executive Influencing Skills

Run steering committees

Present to VPs

Handle resistance

Lead difficult conversations

Project Management & Execution Discipline

Drive timelines

Manage dependencies

Track risks

Coordinate UAT

Ensure signoffs occur

Escalate issues appropriately

Requirements & User Story Development, write/author the following

User stories

Process Definition Documents

Functional requirements

Business exceptions

Acceptance criteria

UAT scripts

Healthcare Operations Experience

Work queues

Operational metrics

Regulatory concerns

Change management in healthcare

Change Management & Adoption Skills

Lead process change

Manage stakeholder expectations

Create communications

Develop training approaches

Drive usage after go-live

Data & Analytics

Using Excel

Analyzing operational metrics

Building dashboards

Identifying trends

Defining KPIs

Technical Curiosity, understand concepts such as:

APIs

Workflow automation

AI/IDP

System integrations

Queue-based work

Storytelling & Communication

Tell the story of value

Translate technical concepts into business outcomes

Create executive-ready PowerPoints

Write clear summaries

Simplified Summary

Healthcare operations background (In a Digital/IT function or with technical implementations)

Strong business analysis skills

Proven process improvement experience

ROI/business case development experience

Executive presentation skills

Project management capability

Experience facilitating workshops and requirements sessions

Must Have

Healthcare process improvement experience

Financial Analysis/Analytical capabilities

KPI definition

Familiarity with Epic

• Experience with Kanban, Scrum and/or Agile project/product management
• Change Management experience with large scale healthcare implementations
• Ability to translate requirements to developers (speak the language)
• Translate technical concepts into business outcomes

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Healthcare technology business analysis/project management experience

Lean/Six Sigma Green or Black Belt

PMP

CBAP (Business Analysis)

Prosci Change Management

Azure Dev Ops

UiPath familiarity/exposure

Service Now experience

AI/Intelligent Document Processing exposure

PowerBI dashboard building experience

Healthcare business line areas of experience:

Revenue Cycle

Patient Access

Pharmacy

Finance

HIM

Clinical Operations

Healthcare Consulting

Epic Optimization

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Healthcare, or related field (or equivalent experience)

Minimum Experience

• 8+ years of experience in healthcare or academic environments, with a focus on process improvement, innovation, or technology strategy
• Experience building business cases, defining ROI, and validating value with senior stakeholders
• Expertise in business process design, requirements gathering, user story development, and technical documentation
• Demonstrated success in communicating complex technical concepts to a wide variety of audiences
• Proficiency with PowerPoint, Excel, and visual storytelling techniques
• Proven ability to build collaborative relationships across technical and business functions
• Experience mentoring others and leading team-based execution efforts

Additional Details

Emory is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law.

Emory Healthcare is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request. Please contact Emory Healthcare’s Human Resources at careers@emoryhealthcare.org. Please note that one week's advance notice is preferred.