Senior AI & Automation Engineer

Here, it's different. Come join us.

Children's Hospital Colorado has defined and delivered pediatric healthcare excellence for more than 100 years.

Here, the nation's brightest nurses, physicians, scientists, researchers, therapists, and care providers are creating the future of child health. With an optimist's outlook, a trailblazing spirit, and a celebrated history, we're making new strides every day.

We've been Magnet-designated four times by the American Nurses Credentialing Center and are consistently recognized among the best of the best pediatric hospitals with #1 rankings in Colorado and the region by U.S. News & World Report.

As a national leader in pediatric care, we serve children and families from all over the nation. Our System of Care includes four pediatric hospitals, 11 specialty care centers, 1,300+ outreach clinics and more than 10,000 healthcare professionals representing the full spectrum of pediatric care specialties.

Here, we know it takes all of us, every role, to deliver the best possible care to each child and family we treat.

That's why we build our teams toward a foundation of equity in access, advancement, and opportunity. We know teams of individuals with different identities and backgrounds can nurture creativity and innovation. We know we can see, treat, and heal children better when our team reflects the diversity of our patient population. We strive to attract and retain diverse talent because we know a truly inclusive and equitable workforce will help us one day realize our most basic calling: to heal every child who comes through our doors.

A career at Children's Colorado will challenge you, inspire you, and motivate you to make a difference in the life of a child. Here, it's different.

The Senior AI & Automation Engineer is responsible for shadowing employees, analyzing manual workflows, and identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency through automation and AI-driven solutions. Using tools like Copilot Studio, they assess processes, recommend optimizations, and implement low-code/no-code automation solutions to reduce repetitive tasks and improve productivity. This role requires a strong understanding of business operations, process improvement methodologies, and emerging AI technologies to drive digital transformation.

This position is responsible for full performance complex systems analysis, design and applications programming for single and multiple information systems, software applications, architectures, data warehouses, databases, and data extraction and reporting. Duties include designing, planning, testing, implementing, maintenance, problem solving, documenting, and developing software code, standards, principles and practices. This position may perform lead work over lower level staff.

Potential Specialty Areas: Informatica, PeopleSoft, Research DW, SharePoint

Department: Business Applications Services
Hours per week: 40, eligible for benefits
Shift: Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm, work hours may vary based on the needs of the department. This role does also require on-call rotation.

*This is a hybrid position and does require the employee to live in the state of Colorado.

• EDUCATION - Bachelor's degree is required.
• EXPERIENCE - Minimum of five (5) years of related experience is required.
• EQUIVALENCY - Combination of post-high school education, job related certification, and/or related experience equivalent to nine (9) years may be considered in lieu of minimum requirements.
• Ideal applicants have familiarity with C# and development
• Preference will be give to those applicants who have experience with the following systems:
  • Azure OpenAI Services
  • Microsoft Copilot
  • Copilot Studio
  • Power Platform (Power Automate, Power Apps, Power BI, Dataverse)
  • Power Automate
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • Dataverse
  • APIs & Webhooks
  • Microsoft Graph API
  • Microsoft 365 (Teams, SharePoint, Outlook, OneDrive)
  • Power BI
  • Python
  • LangChain
  • Logic Apps
  • Azure Functions
  • GitHub Copilot

POPULATION SPECIFIC CARE

• No direct patient care.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

An employee in this position may be called upon to do any or all of the following essential functions. These examples do not include all of the functions which the employee may be expected to perform.

• Analyzes, designs, builds, modifies, implements, tests and debugs new or existing software applications, architectures, databases, and systems integration to automate business processes, as applicable.
• Prepares time lines, project plans and flow charts for the development or enhancement of new and existing software application programs.
• Provides enterprise level application design guidance and consultation. Collaborates with development team, business intelligence, manager, customers and project managers to develop requirements, applications, systems, data warehouse and database requirements to meet organizational and end user needs. Provides recommendations regarding configuration, design, usability and maintainability for services, applications, interfaces and other dependencies that integrate with platforms.
• Gathers, analyzes and documents complex business and user requirements, functional requirements and data specifications.
• Designs, writes and documents technical specifications to design or redesign complex applications.
• Collaborates with applications staff and users of information systems to evaluate, plan, design, develop, test, implement, and maintain application development efforts and/or reports. Works with applications staff to translate and document user needs and system requirements into report specification and/or techinical documents. Integrates data between multiple systems for reporting as necessary.
• Performs database tuning and configuring; developing backup and recovery processes, repeatable methods to refresh non-production environments from production, data life-cycle management, and system upgrades. Writes stored procedures, packages, and functions.
• Designs and develops complex processes required to extract, transform, cleanse and load data into the enterprise data warehouse and data marts. Develops solutions to address data warehouse query performance and quality issues including data profiling, development, enhancement, and technical standards. Ensures reporting systems are maintained, and supported during system and database upgrades and modifications.
• Recommends, develops and creates peripheral technologies and IT processes in support of application platforms.
• Recommends, develops, documents and maintains software coding and development standards, principles and practices.
• Troubleshoots complex performance and system availability problems ensuring quality of the enterprise application and/or data warehouse. Consults with end users and information technology staff to identify user problems.
• Designs, develops, tests, debugs, implements, and prepares flow charts for both new and existing systems. May assist lower level developers in the development of complex applications and coding.
• Serves as a technical resource for modeling, simulation and analysis efforts. Verifies program logic by overseeing the preparation of test data, testing and debugging of programs.
• Participates in Production Support on-call rotation as necessary

SCOPE AND LEVEL

• Guidelines: Possesses and applies a broad knowledge of concepts, practices and procedures within a particular field of specialization.
• Complexity: Duties and tasks are broad and complex, usually requiring a greater degree of responsibility. Procedures, methods and techniques to carry out work may not be well defined, requiring advanced knowledge in specific specialties and of the organization.
• Decision Making: Has latitude in making most decisions. Decisions and recommendations are made after contemplative analysis and with independent judgment and ingenuity. May escalate the most complex and important decisions to a higher level employee, supervisor and/or manager.
• Communication: Communicates explanatory and/or interpretive information relative to the organization and/or advanced knowledge of own function with team members, peers, management, clients and in some cases, the public. Uses discretion and independent judgment is exchanged, defended, gathered and/or presented. Defers to higher level team members and/or management only when necessary.
• Supervision Received: Works under limited supervision and with a high degree of independence, conferring with supervisor and/or manager on unusual matters. May be assisted by lower level employees.

PHYSICAL REQUIRMENTS

• Vision - Near: clear vision at 20 inches or less
• Weight Lifted/Force Exerted: up to 10 pounds/4.5 kilos, up to 1/3 of time
• Hearing: able to clearly hear details
• Sit: 2/3 or more of time
• Talk: able to communicate verbally
• Mental/Emotional: able to work in close proximity to others and/or in a distracting environment
• Mental/Emotional: able to cope with stress effectively
• Mental/Emotional: able to prioritize effectively

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Mental/Emotional: able to tolerate ambiguity
• Mental/Emotional: able to prioritize effectively
• Mental/Emotional: may be subject to many interruptions
• Office Work Environment: Regular/frequent exposure
• Bloodborne Pathogen Category 2: Occasional exposure to blood/body fluid

It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information.

The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.

Colorado Residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

Here, you matter. As a Children's Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children's Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.