Director - Data Analytics & BI

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Full Time
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0800-1700

Lexington Health is a comprehensive network of care that includes six community medical and urgent care centers, nearly 80 physician practices, more than 9,000 health care professionals and Lexington Medical Center, a 607-bedteachinghospital in West Columbia, South Carolina. It was selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the Best Places to Work in Healthcareand was first in the state to achieve Magnet with Distinction status for excellence in nursing care. Consistently ranked as bestin the Columbia Metroarea by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Healthdelivers more than 4,000babies each year, performs more than 34,000surgeries annually and isthe region's third largest employer.

Lexington Health also includes an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence, the state’s first HeartCARE Center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, and an Alzheimer’s care center.Its postgraduate medical education programs include family medicine and transitional year residencies, as well as an informatics fellowship.

Job Summary

Under the direction of the CIO, and in collaboration with other senior leadership team members, this senior technology leadership position is responsible for defining, governing, and executing the organization's enterprise data and analytics strategy. The position serves as the primary strategist for data warehousing, business intelligence, and clinical and operational analytics; owning the architecture, governance, lifecycle management, and continuous evolution of the analytics ecosystem, including Epic Caboodle/Cogito, cloud and on-premise infrastructure, and cross-system reporting. The position drives the transition from a fragmented reporting environment to a governed, Epic-forward, data-driven organization while maintaining reliable current-state reporting. Direct reports include Business Intelligence Developers, Epic Analysts, and the IS Clinical Decision Support team. The position collaborates closely with clinical operations, finance, quality, revenue cycle, and population health leadership and requires considerable judgement, strategic vision, and the ability to function with a high degree of autonomy.

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Nursing, Clinical Informatics, Information Services, or Data Analytics
Minimum Years of Experience: 5 or more Years of progressive experience in healthcare data, analytics, or business intelligence.
Substitutable Education & Experience: None.
Required Certifications/Licensure: Epic Caboodle and/or Cogito certification strongly preferred; additional Epic application certification(s) strongly preferred. Willingness and ability to obtain required certificaitons is required..
Required Training: Proficiency in SQL and data modeling; familiarity with ETL processes and enterprise data integration; experience with enterprise BI visualization tools (Power BI preferred).

Essential Functions

• Define and own the enterprise data and business intelligence strategy, aligned with clinical, operational, and organizational goals.
• Establish Epic Caboodle as the authoritative analytics foundation, with a roadmap for cloud integration and external data ingestion.
• Develop and maintain a multi-year technology roadmap balancing cloud innovation, on-premise infrastructure, and Epic ecosystem maturity.
• Design and implement a formal data governance framework, including data dictionaries, metric definitions, named ownership, and content lifecycle standards.
• Establish a content certification process (Prototype > Pilot > Certified) and standards for report intake, prioritization, validation, and retirement.
• Lead metric harmonization efforts to eliminate conflicting definitions across clinical, financial, and operational domains (based on leadership criteria).
• Oversee all enterprise reporting infrastructure (Epic Reporting Workbench, RadarDashboards, Cogito/SlicerDicer, Power BI, legacy tools) and drive Radar adoption as the enterprise operational dashboard standard.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Manage the strategy for ingesting external data sources (workflorce, financial, and population health) into the governed analytics environment.
• Support quality measure reporting, ACO performance tracking, and payer data submissions with accurate, auditable, and timely data.&