Director - Data Analytics & BI

Lexington Health, Inc.; Columbia, Northern (SC, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Day-one benefits

403(b) match

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Student loan forgiveness

FSAs

Job summary

Lexington Health, Inc. is seeking a senior technology leader to define and govern enterprise data, analytics strategy, and reporting.

You will own the architecture and lifecycle of the analytics ecosystem including Epic Caboodle/Cogito, cloud and on‑premise infrastructure, and cross‑system reporting. The role requires collaborating with clinical operations, finance, quality, and population health leadership, with direct reports to BI developers, Epic Analysts, and the IS Clinical Decision

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in data analytics or related field.
• 5+ years of healthcare data, analytics, or business intelligence experience.
• Epic Caboodle/Cogito certification preferred; willingness to obtain.

Responsibilities

• Define and own enterprise data and BI strategy.
• Establish Epic Caboodle as analytics foundation with cloud/on‑premise roadmap.
• Lead data governance, data catalogs, and metric definitions.
• Oversee reporting infrastructure (Power BI, Cogito, SlicerDicer) and Radar adoption.

Skills

SQL

Data modeling

ETL

Enterprise BI tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in data analytics

Tools

Power BI

Epic Caboodle

Cogito

RadarDashboards

SlicerDicer

Job description

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IT Services
Full Time
Day Shift
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 Distinctionstatus 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.
• Assist with strategic direction and operational standards for the IS Clinical Decision Support Manager, including Practice Advisories (OPA's), clinical metrics as well as guiding the coordination of AI Governance and oversight.
• Serve as the primary IT partner to senior, clinical, and operational leadership on data strategy, analytics capabilities, and reporting reliability; facilitate governance committees and executive briefings as needed.
• Champion data literacy and self-service analytics adoption within a governed hub-and-spoke model.
• Maintain the enterprise data strategy including: roadmap, data catalog, metric registry and more.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

We are committed to offering quality, cost-effective benefits choices for our benefit eligible employees and their families:

• Day ONE medical, dental and life insurance benefits
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Employees are eligible for enrollment into the 403(b) match plan day one. LHI matches dollar for dollar up to 6%.
• Employer paid life insurance – equal to 1x salary
• Employee may elect supplemental life insurance with low cost premiums up to 3x salary
• Adoption assistance
• LHI provides its full-time employees employer paid short-term disability and long-term disability coverage after 90 days of eligible employment
• Student loan forgiveness

Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of Lexington Health to provide equal opportunity of employment for all individuals, and to remain compliant with applicable state and federal laws and regulations. Lexington Health strives to provide a discrimination-free environment, and to recruit, select, on-board, and employ all employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, national origin, veteran status, or pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including but not limited to, lactation. Lexington Health endeavors to upgrade and promote employees from within the hospital where possible and consistent with the employee’s desires and abilities and the hospital’s needs.