Emory Healthcare is seeking a Sr. Automation Strategist with deep experience in technology-driven development initiatives and enterprise strategy to support our growing UiPath Automation Team. This role is responsible for shaping and implementing strategies related to automation, data, analytics, business intelligence, and AI across academic, research, and healthcare environments. The strategist will drive cross-enterprise collaboration, governance, and transformation initiatives that align with institutional goals, unlock new value, and ensure sustainable growth through innovation. The ideal candidate combines strategic thinking with technical fluency, stakeholder management, and process optimization.
This individual will serve as a Healthcare Process Improvement Lead, leveraging experience as a Business Analyst, Process Engineer, Operational Excellence Consultant, Healthcare Consultant, Product Owner, or Project Manager. The role requires strong expertise in building business cases, facilitating executive and stakeholder discussions, and independently identifying, prioritizing, and driving automation opportunities from initial intake through value realization. Working within the Automation Development team, this individual will partner with developers and solution architects to translate business needs into scalable RPA solutions, ensuring successful delivery and measurable operational outcomes
This is a 100% remote opening, eligible states we can hire from are noted in our overview, and will also be listed in our application.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Process Discovery & Analysis (Most Important):
- Quickly understand process workflows within each department you interact with
- Facilitate process mapping sessions with SMEs to build automation idea pipelines
- Identify automation opportunities versus process redesign opportunities for manual processes
- Challenge inefficient processes before automating them
Business Case & ROI Development
- Quantify benefits
- Estimate effort vs value
- Define KPIs
- Build executive-level business cases
- Prioritize competing opportunities
Executive Influencing Skills
- Facilitate steering committees with business leaders
- Present to executive leadership, including VP and C-suite stakeholders
- Handle resistance
- Lead difficult conversations
Project Management & Execution Discipline
- Drive timelines
- Manage dependencies
- Track risks
- Coordinate UAT efforts and documentation
- Ensure signoffs occur
- Escalate issues appropriately
Requirements & User Story Development, Write/author The Following
- User stories
- Process Definition Documents for RPA automation development
- Functional requirements
- Business exceptions
- Acceptance criteria
- UAT scripts
Healthcare Operations Experience
- Revenue Cycle work queues in Epic
- Operational metrics
- Regulatory concerns
- Change management in healthcare
Change Management & Adoption Skills
- Lead process change
- Manage stakeholder expectations
- Create communications
- Develop training approaches
- Drive usage after go-live
Data & Analytics
- Using Excel
- Analyzing operational metrics
- Building dashboards
- Identifying trends
- Defining KPIs
Technical Curiosity, Understand Concepts Such As
- APIs
- Workflow automation
- AI/IDP
- Process Automation Development LifecycleSystem integrations
Storytelling & Communication
- Tell the story of value
- Translate technical concepts into business outcomes
- Create executive-ready PowerPoints
- Write clear summaries
Simplified Summary
- Healthcare operations background (In a Digital/IT function or with technical implementations)
- Strong business analysis skills
- Proven process improvement experience
- ROI/business case development experience
- Executive presentation skills
- Project management capability
- Experience facilitating workshops and requirements sessions
- Experience with automation using Robotic Process Automation tools
Must Have
- Healthcare process improvement experience
- Financial Analysis/Analytical capabilities
- KPI definition
- Familiarity with Epic
- Experience with Kanban, Scrum and/or Agile project/product management
- Change Management experience with large scale healthcare implementations
- Ability to translate requirements to developers (speak the language)
- Translate technical concepts into business outcomes
- Familiarity with RPA and AI automation tools (UiPath, Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere)
Preferred Qualifications
- Healthcare technology business analysis/project management experience
- Lean/Six Sigma Green or Black Belt
- PMP
- CBAP (Business Analysis)
- Prosci Change Management
- Azure Dev Ops
- Service Now experience
- AI/Intelligent Document Processing exposure
- PowerBI dashboard building experience
Healthcare Business Line Areas Of Experience
- Revenue Cycle
- Patient Access
- Pharmacy
- Finance
- HIM
- Clinical Operations
- Healthcare Consulting
- Epic Optimization
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Healthcare, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- Minimum Experience:
- 8+ years of experience in healthcare or academic environments, with a focus on process improvement, innovation, or technology strategy
- Experience building business cases, defining ROI, and validating value with senior stakeholders
- Expertise in business process design, requirements gathering, user story development, and technical documentation
- Demonstrated success in communicating complex technical concepts to a wide variety of audiences
- Proficiency with PowerPoint, Excel, and visual storytelling techniques
- Proven ability to build collaborative relationships across technical and business functions
- Experience mentoring others and leading team-based execution efforts