Application Analyst
Saskatchewan Health Authority
About this Role
Description
Closure Date: September 4, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Position #: 190409
Union: Saskatchewan Government and General Employees Union
Bargaining Unit: SGEU - Saskatchewan Cancer Agency
City/Town: Regina or Saskatoon
Facility: SCA - Corporate Services
Department: Information Management Services
Type: Full-time Regular
Expected Start Date: October 6, 2026
FTE: 1
Shift Information: Days
Number of Hours per Rotation: In a 3 week rotation : 14 shift(s) of 7.77 hours
Salary or Pay Band: Pay Band 8, $42.412 to $49.295 (5 step range)
GENERAL ACCOUNTABILITY:
Reporting to the Provincial Manager, Application Services, Application Analysts are client-focused programmers/analysts responsible for: developing an understanding of business enterprise requirements and workflows, standards and nomenclature; business analysis (or working with the business analyst); assessing, designing and modifying software applications; modifying vendor software, documenting business rules; providing training of other analysts and business unit staff; providing ongoing technical management of specified applications; and, providing support to project teams or other applications analysts.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, business administration, or engineering plus 2 years directly related experience or a diploma in computer technology or engineering plus 5 years directly related experience.
- Certification in various operating systems/software applications as required.
Experience:
- Experience in an application analyst role in a highly integrated IT environment.
- HL7 experience preferred.
- Preferred experience with Microsoft's application development ecosystem including Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse), Power BI, Azure DevOps, Git source control, CI/CD pipelines, and YAML-based automation for enterprise application delivery.
Skills:
- Ability to manage multiple applications and/or assignments concurrently while maintaining high levels of quality and effectiveness.
- Ability to work as part of a team including those led by a project manager or peers.
- Ability to work effectively within application/business enterprise architectural and Data Base management guidelines.
- Human relations skills are required to interact with a variety of individuals internal and external to the Agency
- Ability to provide leadership to others involved in the development of specific applications, where full project management methodology is not required.
- Ability to quickly develop an understanding of current SCA business enterprise applications, SCA security policy and applications, Health privacy legislation (HIPA).
- Judgment and problem solving ability is required to identify and analyze technological issues and develop appropriate IM solutions to complex business problems.
- Communication skills are required to develop and present complex information including written documentation and verbal presentations to audiences with varying levels of comprehension ability.
- Demonstrated analytical skill and ability to assess, develop, configure, code, test, document, implement and maintain business enterprise applications.
- Knowledge of and ability to research industry best practices and software solutions.
- Intermediate to advanced ASP.NET/C# programming skills
- Knowledge of different operating systems in SCA (Windows/UNIX/Citrix).
- Understanding of statistics, data warehousing and data cleansing and ability to write SQL-based (or other language-based) queries and generate reports, ensuring patient privacy.
- Understanding of PL/SQL tools, TOAD, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, SAS, Oracle, etc.
- Work with the System Integration Analyst to achieve interoperability of, applications and systems within SCA guidelines.