AI-First Analytics Leader | Enterprise Data Strategy

Bilh; Illinois; On-site; USD 370,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH) seeks a visionary executive to lead an AI-first analytics capability across clinical and business domains. You will shape enterprise AI strategy, governance, and product operating models, partnering across leadership to deliver actionable insights within workflows and decisions.

The role emphasizes responsible AI, data quality, and scalable AI services, with a focus on governance, security, and regulatory compliance in a complex health system.

Qualifications

• Fifteen (15) or more years of progressively responsible experience in healthcare data, analytics, technology, informatics, or related functions.

Responsibilities

• Leads the enterprise data and analytics strategy and multiyear roadmap, positioning AI as the primary engine for generating insights, predictions, recommendations, and workflow actions across clinical and business domains.
• Chairs enterprise governance for data, AI, intelligent agents, and predictive decision support, including decision rights, data stewardship, use-case intake, risk tiering, human oversight, model approval, and lifecycle accountability.
• Directs the development, acquisition, validation, deployment, and monitoring of machine learning, generative AI, natural language processing, predictive and prescriptive models, intelligent agents, and automation, with controls for performance, drift, bias, explainability, privacy, security, and patient safety.
• Creates an AI-ready data foundation through enterprise standards for data quality, semantic consistency, lineage, metadata, master data, identity management, access, retention, and appropriate use, enabling trusted models and reusable intelligence at scale.
• Partners with clinical and operational leaders to replace static, retrospective reporting where appropriate with AI-enabled forecasting, anomaly detection, summarization, conversational analysis, recommendations, and embedded decision support within Epic and other workflows.
• Defines product, value, and portfolio management practices for AI-driven analytics; measures clinical and business outcomes, adoption, model performance, total cost of ownership, vendor performance, and return on investment, and retires solutions that do not meet established thresholds.
• Builds, develops, and retains multidisciplinary teams across data engineering, architecture, data science, machine learning engineering, AI/ML operations, analytics product management, prompt and knowledge engineering, governance, and adoption.
• Ensures compliance with applicable privacy, security, information sharing, records management, research, and health IT requirements, partnering with Legal, Compliance, Privacy, Cybersecurity, and clinical governance on emerging AI and data obligations.
• Manages operating and capital budgets, strategic vendors, contracts, platform performance, and executive communications; represents the data and AI-driven analytics function on enterprise committees and with external partners.

Skills

AI strategy

Data governance

Enterprise analytics

Leadership

Epic EHR

Cloud platforms

Model operations

Privacy & security

Regulatory compliance

Change management

Education

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Analytics, AI, Healthcare Administration, or related field

Tools

Epic EHR Analytics

Cloud platforms

Job description

Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH) seeks a visionary executive to lead an AI-first analytics capability across clinical and business domains. You will shape enterprise AI strategy, governance, and product operating models, partnering across leadership to deliver actionable insights within workflows and decisions.

The role emphasizes responsible AI, data quality, and scalable AI services, with a focus on governance, security, and regulatory compliance in a complex health system.