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Senior Technical Analyst - Where Technology Meets Patient Care

Join SA Health as a Senior Technical Analyst and lead critical technology initiatives that directly impact patient care at Flinders Medical Centre. This part-time contract role offers the opportunity to analyse complex healthcare systems, collaborate with clinical teams, and drive digital transformation until February 2027. Make a meaningful difference in South Australia's healthcare landscape while advancing your career with the state's largest employer

About the role: 

Reporting to the Professor, this role is responsible for enabling end-user access to timely and quality information for operational, clinical, financial, tactical, management and strategic purposes and leading the development, delivery and evaluation of complex data governance and management projects, functions and services

 Duties for the role will include:

• Ensure that service provision and the activities of the Rehabilitation Services Unit is person centred, professional and effectively conducted by contributing to the development of an integrated team approach and culture which is highly responsive to the needs of our consumers,
• Initiate, plan and develop a best practice data governance framework to manage SALHN’s data and related functions. This includes formulating, developing, implementing and supporting data management instruments comprising of standards, practices and technologies to support and facilitate transforming SALHN/SA Health data into a strategic asset,
• Scope, develop, test and deliver appropriate Business Intelligence Applications to support data analytics, reporting, visualisations and business analysis,
• Review, develop and implement processes related to data collection, sharing, utilisation, protection, cleaning and storage

About you:

• An appropriate Degree for example, Public Health, Information Management, Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Technology or related discipline,
• Lead the development of the Division of Rehabilitation, Aged Care and Palliative Care’s reporting systems and associated applications,
• Strong leadership skills and ability to motivate and inspire others to work collaborative to achieve objectives, develop talent with a commitment to a team orientated philosophy to bring about best use of resources to deliver services,
• Cultivates a high-performance culture, supporting innovation, action oriented, drives results and supports Division of Rehabilitation, Aged Care and Palliative Care’s vision,
• Demonstrates sound decision quality, ensures accountability, works effectively / manages complexity to ensure work output and decisions are ethical and invariably of a high standard,
• Extensive experience in working with computer systems and applications including business intelligence, spreadsheets, word processing, databases, statistical packages and clinical costing systems,
• Demonstrated experience developing, delivering and evaluating complex compliance monitoring and data quality programs including developing data quality metrics to assess and monitor improvements,
• Demonstrated experience in health sector casemix and patient activity data collection, interpretation and analysis

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Prof Maria Crotty, Rehabilitation Professor, 8404 2440, maria.crotty@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Monday 23 March 2026

Attachments:

• Senior Technical Analyst- Role Description
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• International applicant guidelines

Applicant Information:

• We also offer salary sacrifice benefits which provide the opportunity to save money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed. Click here to find out more about salary packaging.
• The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
• Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and Immunisation compliance as indicated on the Role description.
• SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.  Job ref: 932174