Lead Clinical Business Intelligence Architect
About The Position
The Lead Clinical Business Intelligence Architect provides technical and strategic leadership for clinical analytics and external benchmarking across a large, integrated academic health system. This role designs, governs, and advances enterprise business intelligence solutions supporting Vizient performance domains, clinical quality, safety, outcomes, utilization, and service line performance improvement. The position partners closely with clinical leadership, quality teams, and enterprise analytics stakeholders, and directly leads a team of data analysts (2 FTEs), ensuring analytics are accurate, scalable, transparent, and trusted. This position is eligible for remote work within Iowa and will require a work arrangement form to be completed upon the start of your employment. Per policy, work arrangements will be reviewed annually, and must comply with the remote work program and related policies and employee travel policy when working at a remote location. Health Care Information Systems (HCIS) provides and supports information and communication systems and technology that facilitate quality patient care, progressive medical education, and innovative research. HCIS services University of Iowa Health Care by providing comprehensive, high-level support for patient care delivery, internal and external communication, technology innovation, medical education, and research. Creating and maintaining a positive, productive, and rewarding environment for information technology and communication staff
Requirements
- 5 years of progressive experience in business intelligence, analytics, or reporting roles, including experience leveraging analytical tools in healthcare delivery environments
- Advanced analytical and problem‑solving skills with the ability to evaluate complex, multi‑source data sets
- Strong understanding of data warehouse and data modeling concepts, including fact/dimension models and semantic layers
- Experience designing and supporting enterprise reporting solutions using modern business intelligence platforms
- Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities concurrently
Nice To Haves
- Experience working in a healthcare delivery setting with clinical analytics and performance measurement, particularly supporting quality, outcomes, utilization, or benchmarking initiatives
- Experience supporting Vizient analytics or performance improvement efforts, including interpretation of peer comparisons and standardized performance domains
- Working knowledge of healthcare delivery workflows and clinical terminology
- Advanced experience with enterprise analytics and business intelligence platforms such as Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, or similar tools
- Advanced SQL expertise, including complex query development, optimization, and performance tuning
- Experience partnering with data engineering, application, and infrastructure teams in a complex healthcare IT environment
- Experience working with vendors to define system requirements, integration strategies, and analytics solutions
- Experience providing training, education, and ongoing support to analytics staff and business partners
- Epic certifications(s) or experience related but not limited to the following: Cogito Fundamentals, Cogito Tools Administration, Caboodle Data Model, Clarity Data Model, etc
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and support of analytics aligned to Vizient performance domains, including mortality, safety, effectiveness, efficiency, variation in care, and patient experience
- Provide day‑to‑day technical leadership, mentorship, and work direction for a team of data analysts (2 FTEs)
- Partner with clinical leaders, quality teams, and service lines to translate clinical and benchmarking data into actionable analytics
- Develop standardized dashboards and metrics to support ongoing performance monitoring, what if analysis, and improvement initiatives
- Conduct in-depth analyses to identify performance trends, benchmark comparisons, and improvement opportunities.
- Serve as a subject matter expert on Vizient data methodologies and performance metrics.
- Ensure reporting solutions are scalable, performant, and aligned with enterprise data governance and data quality expectations
- Ensure transparency and documentation of metric definitions, logic, inclusions, exclusions, and assumptions
- Review and validate analytic deliverables to ensure accuracy, consistency, and adherence to standards
- Promote documentation, peer review, and knowledge sharing across the analytics team
- Support onboarding and ongoing development of analytics staff and clinical and operational partners
Benefits
- University of Iowa offers a generous benefits package, including 24 days paid vacation per year to start and paid sick leave.
- Complete information regarding the full benefits package may be viewed at https://hr.uiowa.edu/benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
