Nurse Informaticist (IT)

Posting Date

11/17/2025

2000 16th Street, Denver, Colorado, 80202, United States of America

Are you looking to improve healthcare for thousands of patients? Come work for us!

DaVita is looking for an experienced Nurse Informaticist to help us transform and improve kidney care by supporting our innovative, fast-paced, and growing business of DaVita Integrated Kidney Care.

The Nurse Informaticist will be responsible for understanding clinical user needs and translating them into IT requirements that help to optimize clinical workflows, patient care, and population-level health outcomes. He/she will be a part of the Medical Informatics team and serve as a liaison between the clinical users and the IT developers. This position requires close cross-functional partnerships across product team, IT, customers, vendors, and business stakeholders within the organization.

Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To

• Understanding and translating clinical objectives into IT solutions to meet strategic goals. Eliciting requirements from product managers, product directors, product owners, UX teammates, business SMEs, development and QA leads, and executive leadership.
• Ensuring that IT tools are meeting the objectives of clinical teams, business end-users and technical teams. Leading and supporting activities such as requirement gathering and crafting sessions, solution design sessions, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), post-deployment feedback sessions, and status meetings.
• Creating, supporting, and updating requirement artifacts such as Solution Requirements Specifications, use cases, screen layouts, process flows, functional and non-functional requirements, and other design artifacts as needed.
• Leading clinical workflow exploration and education sessions with clinical teammates and external partners.
• Acting as a liaison between the clinical delivery teams, the clinical and business partners that will be using tools and solutions, as well as interacting with development engineers, QA analysts and related IT teams.
• Reviewing and providing feedback for training materials and product communications. Conducting train-the-trainer and demo sessions as needed for clinical partners, trainers, helpdesk/support teams, and business partners.
• Supporting production deployments by ensuring a smooth delivery with communication to product management and product owners in the event of any deployment issues. Conducting validation on deployed functionality to ensure everything is working as expected immediately after a production deployment, and coordinating business partner validation of deployed functionality during a production release.
  
  

Skills Of a Successful Nurse Informaticist Include

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills
• Attention to detail to write clear product requirements
• Ability to translate complex problems into easily understood concepts
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, meet deadlines, and adjust priorities appropriately in an evolving work environment with shifting time frames
• Exceptionally skilled in coordinating and facilitating meetings with both face-to-face and remote attendees
• Self-starter with high degree of initiative and follow through
  
  

Ideal Candidate Will Have The Following Qualifications And Experience

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
• Current Registered Nurse Licensure
• 2-3 years of clinical nursing experience, preferably working with complex chronic disease patients
• A degree or certification in nursing informatics
• 2 years of project management or configuration with Cerner or Epic with at least 1 health system, hospital, or other large enterprise.
  
  

Travel required up to 25%

Remote candidates considered.

Full vaccination against COVID-19 or weekly COVID-19 testing, in addition to wearing a mask, is required. A medical/religious exemption is required for any unvaccinated teammates planning to visit a clinic or working on any of our federal contracts.

What We’ll Provide

More than just pay, our DaVita Rewards package connects teammates to what matters most. Teammates are eligible to begin receiving benefits on the first day of the month following or coinciding with one month of continuous employment. Below are some of our benefit offerings.

• Comprehensive benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off, PTO cash out
• Support for you and your family: Family resources, EAP counseling sessions, access Headspace®, backup child and elder care, maternity/paternity leave and more
• Professional development programs: DaVita offers a variety of programs to help strong performers grow within their career and also offers on-demand virtual leadership and development courses through DaVita’s online training platform StarLearning.
  
  

At DaVita, we strive to be a community first and a company second. We want all teammates to experience DaVita as "a place where I belong." Our goal is to embed Diversity & Belonging into everything we do in our Village, so that it becomes part of who we are. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. As such, individuals are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

At DaVita, we strive to be a community first and a company second. We want all teammates to experience DaVita as "a place where I belong." Our goal is to embed belonging into everything we do in our Village, so that it becomes part of who we are. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and comply with state and federal affirmative action requirements. Individuals are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

This position will be open for a minimum of three days.

The Salary Range for the role is $84,000.00 - $133,000.00/year.

For location-specific minimum wage details, see the following link: DaVita.jobs/WageRates

Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience. DaVita offers a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Learn more at https://careers.davita.com/benefits

Colorado Residents: Please do not respond to any questions in this initial application that may seek age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You may also redact this information from any materials you submit during the application process. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.