Head of Business Applications (m/f/d) 100% — Universitäts-Kinderspital Zürich (Kispi)
- Location
- Zürich
- Contract
- Full-time, Temporary
- Posted
Full description
Children's Hospital Zurich Eleonorenstiftung | online since : 10.11.2026
Digital core systems ensure patient care at the University Children's Hospital Zurich. While we are renewing KIS and ERP, the legacy landscape must be stable. We are looking for an experienced leader who understands clinical processes, masters technology and makes transformation economical.
- Leadership & responsibility: You lead and develop 23 employees empathetically and clearly via an established team leader organization, control resources, budget and partners and promote personal responsibility.
- Clinical processes & BPR: You analyze outpatient and inpatient care processes (admission, diagnosis, treatment, care, medication and exit) end-to-end and design safe, efficient target processes with the specialist areas.
- 24/7 Operation & Efficiency: Ensure availability, quality and cost-efficient operation of clinical and administrative core systems including service, incident, change and release management.
- Legacy & Modernization: You are responsible for existing applications (including KIS, PDMS, LIS, RIS/PACS, Archive and ERP), reduce technical risks and plan low-risk replacements.
- CIS & ERP transformation: You translate supply requirements into sustainable process and system designs and accompany architecture, integration, migration, test, go-live and operational takeover.
- Architecture & Security: With ICT architecture, security and specialist areas, you strengthen interoperability, cyber resilience and restartability of core systems.
- Process Owner Demand Management: Responsible for requirements reception, business analysis, evaluation and prioritization up to decision preparation and implementation by projects or agile product teams.
- AI, RPA & automation: You simplify processes before they are digitized and realize a measurable benefit with AI, robotic process automation (RPA) and intelligent workflows.
Your profile
- Leadership & training: several years of leadership experience in application management
- Degree in computer science, business or medical informatics (FH/Uni) or comparable qualification.
- Hospital & Care Competence: Deep understanding of clinical, nursing and administrative processes as well as interprofessional treatment pathways is a particularly big plus.
- Business Analysis & BPMN 2.0: Secure in end-to-end process analysis, requirements engineering, business process reengineering (BPR) and actual/target modeling according to BPMN 2.0; cross-industry experience is welcome.
- Architecture & Operations: In-depth knowledge in application, data and integration architecture, legacy, ITSM and cybersecurity as well as in highly available operations; HL7/FHIR or DICOM.
- KIS/ERP & Transformation: Experience with challenging projects, migrations, go-lives and the safe transfer to regular operation.
- AI & automation: Practical reference to AI, RPA, intelligent workflows and their secure, data protection-compliant use.
- Project methods & SAFe: saddle in project and portfolio management, Scrum and Kanban; SAFe, product organizations and Agile Release Trains are beneficial.
- Personality with Attitude: Analytical, systematic, empathetic and resilient; decisive and hands-on, with a sense of patient safety and cost-effectiveness.
Denise Rudolf von Rohr Senior HR Business Partner +41 44 249 23 35
http://www.kispi.uzh.ch
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