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Application Planning Lead (Healthcare CIS Transformation)
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Job Location:
Fredericton - Canada
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Experience Required:
10years
Experience Required:
Posted:
24 May 2026 (30+ days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
21 August 2026
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1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
Job Description Application Planning Lead (Healthcare CIS Transformation)
Requisition ID: RQ00331
Client: Service New Brunswick (SNB)
Project: Provincial Clinical Information System (CIS) Transformation Program
Position Title: Application Planning Lead
Engagement Type: Contract Full Time
Duration: June 2026 May 2028 (With two optional one-year renewal periods)
Work Model : Remote within Canada with quarterly travel to New Brunswick as required
Position Overview
Service New Brunswick is seeking an experienced Application Planning Lead to support the provincial Clinical Information System (CIS) transformation initiative. The successful candidate will lead assessment planning rationalization and readiness activities for hospital-based ancillary and downstream clinical applications to ensure alignment with the future-state CIS environment across the province.
The role requires close collaboration with clinical stakeholders operational leaders technical teams Regional Health Authorities and vendors to support application readiness integration planning workflow alignment and governance decision-making for a large-scale healthcare transformation program.
Key Responsibilities
Application Landscape Assessment & Documentation
- Lead development and maintenance of comprehensive current-state application inventories including ownership integrations dependencies lifecycle status and functionality.
- Document application architectures workflows interfaces and technical dependencies to support planning and governance decisions.
- Validate application inventories with clinical and operational stakeholders across hospital environments.
Functional & Technical Gap Analysis
- Conduct assessments of existing hospital clinical applications against future-state CIS capabilities.
- Identify functional workflow technical and integration gaps impacting clinical operations.
- Perform impact assessments and high-level analysis to support application disposition decisions and investment planning.
Application Disposition & Roadmap Planning
- Define disposition strategies including retain replace consolidate integrate or decommission approaches.
- Develop future-state application roadmaps aligned with CIS deployment timelines and governance approvals.
- Coordinate sequencing dependencies migration planning and readiness activities.
Application Readiness & Transformation Planning
- Lead readiness planning activities for impacted clinical applications including:
- Version upgrades
- Technical debt remediation
- Integration/interface modernization
- Refactoring and configuration alignment
- Ensure downstream systems are operationally and technically prepared for CIS implementation.
Clinical Workflow & Stakeholder Alignment
- Work directly with clinicians clinical informatics teams operational leaders and technical teams to understand workflows and application usage.
- Translate clinical and operational requirements into scalable technical and application planning solutions.
- Ensure application decisions align with patient care delivery models and standardized clinical workflows.
Governance Reporting & Risk Management
- Prepare decision records recommendations status dashboards and executive reporting artifacts.
- Identify and manage risks issues dependencies and mitigation strategies across application workstreams.
- Support governance forums workshops and planning sessions with internal and external stakeholders.
Delivery Oversight
- Lead application planning workstreams with accountability for:
- Timelines
- Deliverables
- Resource coordination
- Status reporting
- Cross-stream collaboration
- Coordinate activities across application infrastructure integration data and operational teams.
Mandatory Qualifications (M1M8)
M1 Education
- Bachelors degree in:
- Computer Science
- Business Administration
- Health Informatics
- Or a related discipline
- Equivalent combinations of education and experience may be considered.
M2 Healthcare CIS Transformation Experience
- Minimum 8 years of hospital-based clinical application experience supporting large-scale healthcare CIS/EHR transformation initiatives.
- Experience must include:
- CIS replacements
- CIS upgrades
- Application consolidations
- Enterprise healthcare transformation programs
- Experience must be in Lead or Senior Project/Program roles within hospital environments.
M3 Application Assessment & Gap Analysis
- Minimum 4 years of experience:
- Assessing current-state clinical application landscapes
- Conducting functional and technical gap analyses
- Performing impact assessments
- Producing planning and governance documentation
- Maintaining application inventories and dependencies
M4 Leadership Experience
- Minimum 4 years leading project teams or workstreams with responsibility for:
- Timelines
- Deliverables
- Staffing coordination
- Risk management
- Executive reporting
M5 Stakeholder Engagement
- Minimum 4 years working directly with:
- Clinicians
- Clinical informatics teams
- Operational leaders
- Technical delivery teams
- Demonstrated facilitation and stakeholder management capabilities within healthcare environments.
M6 Conflict of Interest Compliance
- Candidate/proponent must not be associated as a prime respondent subcontractor or partner on RFP #8025087-25.
M7 Resume Compliance
- Submitted resume must not exceed 5 pages.
M8 Submission Compliance
- Maximum of two submissions permitted per vendor.
Desired Skills & Experience (S1S7)
S1 Clinical & Ancillary Application Expertise
- Minimum 7 years working directly with clinicians clinical informatics teams and operational staff to understand workflows and ancillary applications used in hospital settings.
S2 Canadian CIS/EHR Implementation Experience
- Minimum 7 years supporting large-scale Canadian CIS/EHR implementations involving consolidation of multiple clinical systems into a unified enterprise solution.
S3 Cross-Stream Coordination
- Minimum 5 years managing dependencies across:
- Applications
- Integration
- Data
- Vendors
- Clinical workstreams
- Operational teams
- Infrastructure environments
S4 Workshops & Adoption Readiness
- Minimum 5 years facilitating workshops translating clinical requirements and supporting technical readiness and adoption activities.
S5 New Brunswick Healthcare Experience
- Experience working with clinical applications used across Regional Health Authorities within New Brunswick is considered a strong asset.
S6 Project Management Tools
- Minimum 3 years using tools such as:
- Jira
- MS Project
- Azure DevOps
- Confluence
- ServiceNow
- Equivalent enterprise planning/reporting tools
S7 Bilingual Communication
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in both English and French are preferred.
Required Technical & Functional Skills
- Clinical Application Assessment
- Healthcare CIS/EHR Transformation
- Application Rationalization
- Workflow Analysis
- Gap & Impact Analysis
- Enterprise Application Planning
- Integration & Interface Planning
- Governance & Decision Support
- Risk & Dependency Management
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Clinical Workflow Alignment
- Technical Readiness Planning
- Roadmap Development
- Change & Adoption Readiness
- Reporting & Executive Communication
Deliverables
The successful candidate will be responsible for producing:
- Comprehensive Application Inventory
- Application Roadmaps & Disposition Plans
- Functional & Technical Gap Assessments
- Application Readiness Plans
- Governance Decision Artifacts
- Executive Status Reports & Dashboards
- Risk & Dependency Tracking Documentation
