Director - Epic Cogito BI and Analytics

Job Description
Director – Epic Cogito Business Intelligence & Analytics is responsible for the strategic leadership, delivery, and governance of enterprise reporting and analytics solutions built on Epic’s Cogito platform. This role ensures that the organization has timely, accurate, and actionable insights to support clinical, operational, financial, quality, and strategic decision‑making. This position leads analytics teams and priorities, establishes enterprise reporting standards, and ensures data integrity and consistency across the organization. The Epic Director – Cogito partners closely with clinical, operational, finance, quality, population health, and executive leaders to translate data needs into meaningful dashboards, reports, and analytical tools. The role is also accountable for analytics readiness and continuity before, during, and after Epic implementations and upgrades.

Responsibilities
Analytics Strategy & Governance

Serve as executive owner for Epic Cogito Business Intelligence and Analytics, including BI Tool governance, enterprise reporting and self‑service analytics

Define and maintain the enterprise Cogito analytics roadmap aligned with organizational strategy and Epic best practices

Establish and enforce analytics governance, standards, and prioritization processes

Ensure consistency, reliability, and usability of enterprise dashboards and reports

Act as an escalation point for analytics related risks, issues, and data integrity concerns

Epic Implementation & Upgrade Support (Core Responsibility)

Lead all analytics related activities for Epic implementations, upgrades, and expansions, including:

Initial Epic go‑live

Cogito foundation setup and optimization

Upgrade impact assessments and remediation planning

Mergers, acquisitions, and data consolidation initiatives

Ensure reporting continuity and accuracy before, during, and after go‑live events

Partner with application, technical, and implementation teams to align reporting with future state workflows

Validate analytics readiness prior to go‑live and support command center activities as needed

Coordinate updates and enhancements to enterprise reporting following system changes

Reporting, Analytics & Data Enablement

Oversee the development and delivery of enterprise reports, dashboards, and analytical solutions using Epic Cogito tools

Support analytics needs across clinical care, operations, revenue cycle, quality, safety, population health, and executive reporting

Ensure analytics solutions deliver actionable insights and measurable value to stakeholders

Enable self‑service analytics through training, documentation, and standardized data models

Partner with data governance and analytics leadership on enterprise data strategies

Data Integrity, Quality & Standards

Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and integrity across all Cogito based analytics

Establish standards for metric definitions, report certification, and data validation

Collaborate with clinical, operational, and finance leaders to align KPIs and definitions

Support audit, compliance, and regulatory reporting requirements tied to Epic data

Stakeholder Engagement & Partnership

Serve as a trusted analytics advisor to clinical, operational, finance, quality, and executive leaders

Translate business and clinical questions into effective analytics solutions

Facilitate prioritization discussions and manage expectations related to analytics delivery

Provide regular updates on analytics performance, insights, and areas of opportunity

Team Leadership & Development

Lead, mentor, and develop Cogito analytics managers, analysts, and developers

Define clear roles, responsibilities, and performance expectations

Build sustainable internal analytics capabilities through training and knowledge sharing

Foster a collaborative, service oriented, and results focused team culture

Optimization & Continuous Improvement

Monitor analytics adoption, use, and user satisfaction

Identify opportunities to enhance dashboards, automate reporting, and improve efficiency

Drive continuous improvement in analytics delivery, tools, and processes

Stay current on Epic Cogito enhancements and industry best practices

Lead UX/UI analytics cognitive load principles to ensure dashboards are intuitive in support of user readiness

Work Environment

On‑site

Extended hours may be required during Epic go‑lives and upgrade cycles

Occasional travel for Epic meetings, training, or system deployments

Qualifications
Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Analytics, Healthcare Administration, Business, or related field.

5–7+ years of healthcare IT or analytics leadership experience.

Advanced data engineering & expert SQL, including a strong foundation in data architecture.

Proficiency in dimensional modeling.

Strong understanding of healthcare clinical, operational, financial, and quality data.

Experience supporting Epic or enterprise implementations or major upgrades from an analytics perspective.

Epic certification(s) in requested modules required or ability to obtain within defined timeframe.

Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Master’s degree in Analytics, Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, or related field.

Epic Cogito certification(s).

Demonstrated experience leading Epic Cogito analytics or enterprise reporting teams.

Expertise in managing enterprise‑wide deployments of Power BI, Tableau or Qlik, including technical skills for building security frameworks and security performance monitoring.

Experience in large health systems.

Experience with data governance, KPI frameworks, and executive dashboards.

Familiarity with population health and value‑based care analytics.

Baptist Health Care, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. BHC maintains and enforces a policy that prohibits discrimination against any workforce members or applicants for employment because of sex, race, age, color, disability, marital status, national origin, religion, genetic information, or other category protected by federal, state or local law.

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