BI Developer Senior

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Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions

• **Leadership
• Lead technical design discussions and set coding standards for BI solutions within a domain.
• Drive initiatives to optimize data models for scalability and sustainability; validate recommendations with engineering teams.
• Serve as a technical authority for troubleshooting and performance optimization.
• Establish BI standards and best practices
• Serve as a technical escalation point
• **Essential Skills
• Contribute to technical strategy and innovation by recommending improvements to BI architecture and supporting alignment with organizational objectives.
• Research and introduce new methodologies and tools, applying emerging BI practices to enhance solution performance and scalability.
• Participate in defining internal standards and best practices, ensuring adherence within assigned projects and promoting consistency across the team.
• Provide technical expertise on complex solutions, guiding development efforts and collaborating with senior experts to resolve challenges.
• **Connect The Dots
• Demonstrate strong knowledge of how BI and analytics capabilities drive departmental and organizational goals. Influence solution design to support business priorities.
• Assess and improve workflows, data collection methods, and reporting ecosystems within assigned domains. Present trade-offs of analytical approaches and recommend optimal solutions for performance and governance.
• Translate multi-domain business requirements into advanced BI solutions. Design frameworks that enable self-service analytics while maintaining governance.
• Partner with BI Managers, Data Engineering, and Product Owners to implement strategies for system upgrades, platform enhancements, and process improvements.
• Review and prioritize technical initiatives within the domain, ensuring incremental delivery aligns with roadmap objectives and resource constraints.
• Identify potential risks early and communicate mitigation strategies to managers and stakeholders before escalation is required.
• Understands how Epic, enterprise BI, and Workday reporting interact
• Align analytics solutions with organizational goals
• Translate strategic objectives into analytics solutions
• Integrates AI/GenAI capabilities into BI solutions (e.g., natural language querying, automated insights); evaluates AI-generated code and outputs for accuracy, bias, security, and governance compliance
• **Innovation and Process Improvement
• Proactively identify and lead improvements to reporting workflows and data integration processes, introducing automation and advanced methodologies where applicable.
• Evaluate, validate, and recommend new data sources that drive measurable business outcomes. Collaborate with content development and engineering teams to ensure usability and integration consistency.
• Establish and maintain robust documentation standards for datasets and models, ensuring alignment with governance frameworks and enterprise best practices.
• Participate in and lead workshops, providing insights and recommendations for systemic process improvements across teams and business units.
• Ensure all BI initiatives adhere to data security, governance, and organizational standards while promoting best practices for scalability and sustainability.
• Drive adoption of new tools and capabilities
• Improve BI delivery and governance processes
• Leads pilots of AI-enabled BI features and emerging AI capabilities, evaluating their impact on efficiency, quality, and scalability; shares findings with the broader team
• Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
• These statements are intended to describe the essential functions of the job and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities. Skills and duties may vary dependent upon your department or unit. Other duties may be assigned as required.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Management, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent years in experience)
• 5 or more years experience in healthcare environment
• 6 or more years *SQL experience in a relational database or an equivalent combination of education and experience;*experience developing applications with one or more business intelligence tools such as Epic Reporting Epic Cogito Reporting, Power BI, SAP Business Objects, Workday Report Writer or equivalent;*experience in data literacy, using data storytelling and interpretation techniques to uncover insights, influence stakeholder decisions, and drive data‑backed, measurable outcomes.

Preferred Education and Experience

• Master's Degree in Business/ Health Administration, Computer Science/ or related field
• *Experience with database management technologies;*Experience in database building, maintenance, and reporting;*Experience with BI visualization, Workday, or Epic Reporting;*Experience with Vizient or related healthcare improvement companies.;*Project management, Lean, Six Sigma, Agile certification;*Experience using data mining/analytical methods and associated tools such as Python, R, etc.;* Experience with on premise database management technologies;*Experience with cloud service such as Azure Cloud, Synapse, Data Factory, Azure SQL;*Experience with on premise database management technologies;*Exposure to Epic Clarity/Caboodle, Power BI semantic modeling, or Workday Prism
   
• Demonstrated experience applying AI/GenAI tools and prompt engineering to optimize BI development workflows, automate repetitive tasks, and evaluate AI-enabled platform features (e.g., Copilot for Power BI, Epic AI/NLP capabilities)

Required Licensure and Certification

• *Cogito Fundamentals - Within 12 months;*Core Analyst Badge - Within 12 months;*Clarity Data Model - Within 12 months;*Caboodle Data Model - Within 12 months;* Epic COG200 OR PowerBI PL-900 OR Workday Reporting Fundamentals - Within 12 Months;* 1 Epic Data Model (Access, Revenue, or Clinical) OR PowerBI PL-300 OR Workday Pro HCM Reporting OR Vizient CDB Certification - Within 12 Months;* 2 Epic Data Models (Access, Revenue, or Clinical) OR PowerBI DP-600 OR Workday Pro Prism Analytics - Within 12 Months
• 2 Data Model (Access, Revenue or Clinical) – Within 12 months OR
• Microsoft: DP-600 within 12 months
  OR
• Workday: Workday Pro - Prism Analytics
  OR
• Equal Professional Experience

Preferred Licensure and Certification

• MS Certifications: Power BI Data Analyst Associate, MCSA: BI Reporting, MCSA: SQL 2016 BI Development

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Important information for you to know as you apply:

• The health system is an equal employment opportunity employer.  Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally-protected status.  See also Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.

• The health system provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.  If you need to request reasonable accommodations for your disability as you navigate the recruitment process, please let our recruiters know by requesting an Accommodation Request form using this link asktalentacquisition@kumc.edu.

• Employment with the health system is contingent upon, among other things, agreeing to the health-system-dispute-resolution-program.pdf and signing the agreement to the DRP.

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