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Summary:
We’re looking for a Business Systems Analyst & Technical Documentation Specialist - someone who thrives at the intersection of systems analysis and clear, impactful communication. This role supports internal and client-facing projects, with a primary focus on producing and maintaining high-quality product documentation such as implementation guides, runbooks, and user manuals. You'll act as a bridge between business needs, technical execution, and knowledge management - translating complex healthcare and FHIR-related functionality into accessible, easy-to-follow documentation.
This is a collaborative role where you’ll work closely with solution architects, developers, and technical product managers to gather insights, define processes, and communicate product capabilities through written content that empowers our users and enhances implementation success.
Ready to bring your analytical and documentation skills to a mission that matters? Apply now and let’s start smiling together.
Primary Functions
- Understand Smile Digital Health’s product capabilities and how they integrate with client environments.
- Translate high-level business needs into detailed technical requirements.
- Collaborate with solution architects, developers, and QA to ensure solution requirements are properly documented.
- Maintain high-quality documentation throughout the project lifecycle.
- Create and manage client support documentation, internal knowledge libraries, and transition materials.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with UX, Sales, Implementation, and Support teams.
- Lead and record outcomes of knowledge exchange meetings; ensure relevant updates are reflected in documentation.
- Own and resolve documentation-related tickets and maintain documentation update cycles.
- Track and report on quarterly documentation metrics.
- Maintain and manage a client FAQ repository and ensure compliance with privacy and security standards.
Prerequisites
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Library and Information Science, English, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in business/systems analysis and technical writing.
- Strong experience translating complex technical concepts into digestible content for diverse audiences.
- Familiarity with system integration, EMRs, HL7, REST APIs, FHIR, DBMS, and application development.
- Familiarity with version control for managing documentation and code examples.
- Experience in healthcare or health tech ecosystems is a strong asset.
- Proven ability to work independently and collaboratively across departments.
- Excellent analytical, verbal/written communication, and organizational skills.
- Experience with Agile, Scrum, and/or Waterfall methodologies.
- A natural problem-solver with a passion for clarity, precision, and helping others succeed through accessible information.
- Experience with FHIR versions and profiles.
Some of the benefits we offer:
* Remote Work Environment
* Flexible Time Away From Work Policy including PTO, Personal and Sick Days
* Competitive Salary and Health/Medical Benefits
* RRSP/TFSA/401K Employee Contribution
* Life and Disability
* Employee Assistance Program
* FHIR Study Program and Skillsoft Learning
* Super HAPI Fun Club
Smile's core values include respect, inclusion, embracing our differences, and celebrating shared values because our people are the foundation of our success. We are big on creating a sense of belonging and empowering each other to bring our authentic selves to work. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace that values diversity, equity, and inclusion.
We welcome and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. Candidates are encouraged to inform us if they wish to discuss or require accommodations during interviews or while working at Smile.
Top Skills
What We Do
Smile Digital Health (doing business as Smile CDR Inc.) specializes in delivering fast, secure, compliant data infrastructures as a service to enable and empower interconnectivity for data-intensive sectors such as healthcare. We are a solutions platform helping organizations like governments, researchers, health systems, healthcare providers, and app developers build connected health solutions and products by leveraging our core expertise in health data and HL7 FHIR.
Our flagship product, Smile CDR, is the world’s first FHIR-based clinical data repository (CDR) as a service. Smile CDR is a high performance and secure solution built on the principles of Privacy by Design. Flexibility is a hallmark of the service as it can be hosted in the cloud or on-premises depending on your needs. The design was strongly influenced by real-world experience in both the jurisdictional and organizational setting. Smile CDR provides a rich set of features and capabilities including:
-Multiple FHIR versions
-FHIR Profiles
-Full text indexing of clinical records
-Type ahead search functionality
-FHIR, HL7v2 and custom ETL for data input
-Federated identity and identity provider functionality
-International character locale support
-Terminology services
-Auditing
-Smart on FHIR support
-Rapid deployment
-Extensive administrative tooling
Leveraging more than 40 years of experience in building enterprise-class systems, our team includes experts in building integrated healthcare systems including FHIR-based solutions such as HAPI, e-prescriptions and other e-health solutions. We were motivated by the need to improve upon existing options for sharing health data within and across organizations.
Smile CDR is the maintainer of HAPI FHIR, the prevailing open source reference implementation of FHIR worldwide
