Senior Applications Administrator
Sanford Health
Summary
Responsible for the effective configuration, governance, maintenance, and support of Microsoft 365 services, with a strong emphasis on SharePoint Online, Microsoft Purview, Varonis, and enterprise data governance. This role ensures the security, compliance, lifecycle management, and optimization of collaboration and content platforms while enabling secure and efficient access to information across the organization.
Job description
Partners closely with business, security, compliance, and technology teams to deliver solutions that enhance collaboration, data protection, regulatory compliance, and operational efficiency. Responsibilities include managing SharePoint governance and information architecture, leveraging Purview and Varonis to identify and mitigate data risks, supporting data classification and retention programs, and advancing enterprise data governance practices that improve visibility, stewardship, and protection of organizational data.
Summary
The Senior Applications Administrator will be responsible for the technical design, planning, implementation, administration and maintenance for assigned applications.
Job Description
- Work with leadership to develop technical solutions that satisfy the business needs of the department.
- Mentor Application Administrators.
- Work with System Administrators and Application Analysts to perform day to day support, administration and maintenance of production, test and development application platforms.
- Configure and manage application usage, data integrity and system software release levels.
- Work with application vendors for configuration, enhancement requests and support escalations.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or related field required.
- At least five years of application administration experience.
- Proven fault identification and analysis skills, critical thinking, ability to troubleshoot technologies.
- Operations experience supporting applications deployed in a multi-server environment.
- Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) certification preferred.
Company overview
Sanford Health is one of the largest integrated healthcare delivery systems in the United States, operating as a nonprofit organization headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Founded in 1894, the organization has grown into a comprehensive health system with 44 medical centers, 482 clinics, and more than 200 senior living facilities across 26 states and nine countries. Sanford Health provides a full spectrum of healthcare services including acute care hospitals, specialty clinics, senior care through the Good Samaritan Society, genomic medicine, global clinics, and the Sanford Health Plan insurance program. The system employs over 48,000 healthcare professionals including 1,400 physicians and delivers care through five Centers of Excellence: Cancer, Children's, Heart, Orthopedics/Sports Medicine, and Women's Health. Annually, Sanford Health handles approximately 5.3 million outpatient visits, 84,000 admissions, and 136,000 surgeries. The organization is also actively involved in medical research and education through partnerships with academic institutions, positioning itself as a regional healthcare leader in the Midwest with expanding international presence.