Job Description

Employment Type

:

SGEU Term 9 months or more

Location(s)

:

SK-Rgna-Regina

Salary Range

:

$38.454 - $46.812 Hourly

Salary Supplement

:

included in hourly salary range (in-scope)

Why eHealth?

We may be biased, but eHealth Saskatchewan is the place to be right now! We are a Treasury Board Crown Corporation that focuses on digital technologies to enable, support, and enhance high quality health services across the entire province. There is no greater job satisfaction than knowing the work you do is directly related to saving a life or bringing a new one into the world. Although we may not be front facing with patient care, we have a huge role in maintaining and improving IT systems and supporting health care providers and teams throughout Saskatchewan in delivering the best possible care to patients, citizens, and health system users. Programs range from primary care to acute care, and includes laboratories, pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. Additional programs and services that support patient care and information include Virtual Care, MySaskHealthRecord, the Provincial Electronic Health Record, Health Registries (eligibility for health services/distribution of health cards) and vital event records.


Our vision is "Connected healthcare, accessible to everyone, everywhere" with a mission to "Collaborate to transform healthcare through the use of information and innovative technology". It is a complex environment, constantly evolving and quick to change as we live our values of excellence, integrity, teamwork, courage, resilience and collaboration.

About the role

Reporting to the Manager, Surgical and Tertiary Care Services, you will provide application support to multi-user, mission critical, integration technology applications. You will research and analyze issues with existing applications and/or transactions, impact of upgrades, new releases, patches, etc. on individual and integrated applications. In addition, this role will monitor production integration technology systems to ensure optimal performance and identify opportunities to improve effectiveness.


You must be willing to participate in the on-call 24/7 support strategy. This requires a rotation of support analysts to be available to respond to priority emergency Priority 1 service disruptions after hours.


The successful candidate will work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where responsibilities shift from day to day, but will primarily center on documenting business processes, gathering and refining requirements, and translating them into clear, actionable specifications. The ideal candidate will also manage or coordinate small to medium-sized projects and work closely with customers, vendors, and leadership to support strategic roadmaps and implement solutions that enhance healthcare across the province.

Typical daily duties

The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to, the following key duties:

Analyzing and implementing computer application code. Investigate problems; determine solution options, make required code modifications, test, and implement changes. Provide appropriate assistance to client inquiries. Co-ordinate the allocation of programming resources to systems. Develop computer applications of moderate to high complexity. Support and maintain existing systems. Collaborate with various technology departments to complete required maintenance.

What we are looking for?

The knowledge and skills required for this position would be attained through the completion of a Degree in Computer Science or related area of study. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered. In addition to educational requirements, the successful candidate will have minimum 1 year of experience working within an integrated IT/Health support environment and supporting applications.



A strong technical background, facilitation skills and training experience. Java Programming concepts, techniques and tools. Database queries, concepts, theories and principles. Requirement analysis and solution design techniques. Service-level protocols, change management protocols, and version control systems. Experience working with integrated, enterprise scaled systems is required, healthcare setting preferred. Foundational knowledge of common Electronic Heath Record systems. HL7 and/or FHIR principles is an asset. Health sector related business knowledge is considered an asset.

Competencies

Communication

Ability to write/create and communicate (verbal and written), explain or present (technical or nontechnical) information to wide variety of technical and non-technical individuals and/or groups in a clear, accurate and understandable manner. Material may include, but is not limited to, user, systems and requirements documentation and procedures.

Problem Solving

Ability to diagnose technical problems such as delays, malfunctions and errors in order to determine the true cause of the problem and provide a (workable/reasonable/optimal) solution in a reasonable time frame; Ability to identify and respond to issues and concerns of others who may be angry or frustrated to reach a mutual understanding.

Interpersonal

Ability to build cooperative working relationships with coworkers and clients to ensure credibility and confidence in services provided as well to build capacity in client's knowledge and ability to use and apply services.

Team/Independence

Ability to work independently and participate as a team member to meet the needs of clients and coworkers and to build productive, positive work relationships.

Organizational

Ability to independently prioritize and organize one's own workload to meet tight deadlines and successfully complete projects in changing environment. (a bit of project management involved)

Analytical

Ability to gather, understand and synthesize specialized information in a way that can be applied to meet the needs of the organization and within given constraints; Ability to identify, explore and evaluate options on data, processes and methodologies, information technology and potential systems design to make feasible recommendations.

Technical

Ability to design new or adapt existing systems/applications taking into account design alternatives, business requirements, and cost, resource and time constraints; Ability to create and or modify a sequence of computer instructions in order to compile, link, build and test computer executables that meet design requirements within established guidelines;
If you are looking for an opportunity to challenge yourself and showcase your abilities, we would love to hear from you!

Grade:

SIT09

Anticipated Start Date:

October 2025

Location:

Regina


We are committed to workplace diversity.

Number of Openings

:

1

Closing Date

: Sep 26, 2025, 12:59:00 AMContact Us

recruitment@eHealthSask.ca