Director - Data Analytics & BI

Lexington Health; West Columbia (SC); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

FSAs

401(k) match

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Tuition reimbursement

Student loan assistance

Job summary

Lexington Health seeks a senior technology leader to define, govern, and execute an enterprise data and analytics strategy. You will own data warehousing, BI, and clinical analytics, overseeing Epic Caboodle/Cogito, cloud and on-premise infrastructure, and cross-system reporting.

You will lead a team including BI Developers, Epic Analysts, and IS Clinical Decision Support staff, collaborating with clinical operations, finance, quality, and revenue cycle leadership to advance a data-driven,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Nursing, Clinical Informatics, Information Services, or Data Analytics.
• 5+ years of progressive experience in healthcare data, analytics, or business intelligence.
• Epic Caboodle and/or Cogito certification strongly preferred; willingness to obtain others.
• Proficiency in SQL and data modeling; familiarity with ETL and enterprise BI visualization tools (Power BI).

Responsibilities

• Define and own the enterprise data and BI strategy aligned with clinical, operational, and organizational goals.
• Establish Epic Caboodle as the authoritative analytics foundation with a roadmap for cloud integration.
• Develop a multi-year technology roadmap balancing cloud, on-premise, and Epic ecosystem maturity.
• Design and implement a formal data governance framework with dictionaries, definitions, ownership, and lifecycle standards.
• Lead metric harmonization to unify definitions across clinical, financial, and operational domains.
• Oversee all enterprise reporting infrastructure (Epic Reporting Workbench, Radar Dashboards, Cogito/SlicerDicer, Power BI) and drive Radar adoption.

Skills

SQL

Data modeling

ETL processes

Power BI

Epic Caboodle

Cogito

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a related field

Tools

Epic Caboodle

Cogito

Job description

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-bed teaching hospital in West Columbia, South Carolina. It was selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare and was first in the state to achieve Magnet with Distinction status for excellence in nursing care. Consistently ranked as best in the Columbia Metro area by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Health delivers more than 4,000 babies each year, performs more than 34,000 surgeries annually and is the 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, Radar Dashboards, 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 Advisies (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
• Tuition reimbursement
• 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.

Nearest Major Market

Columbia

Nearest Secondary Market

South Carolina