Job Details
Role description:
Business intelligence developers (BIDs) create analytics content for end users and third parties who require Epic data.
Job Description
Staffing strategy
A single BID can create content for several related smaller applications. Specific assignments will vary depending on your scope and application mix. Work with your Epic representatives to determine the best application grouping for business intelligence developers. Ideal BID candidates are well-versed in end-user workflows, as well as domain-specific operational concepts.
Responsibilities
- Configuring and testing Epic-released and Foundation System content for all applications, including:
- Reporting Workbench
- SlicerDicer
- Radar
- Cogito SQL
- Creating content to display Epic data from Chronicles, Clarity, and Caboodle
- Writing SQL and configuring Radar settings for custom SQL metrics
- Modifying existing reports, as necessary
- Distributing analytics contentto data consumers
- Reviewing peer reports for validity
- Workingwith subject matter experts to understand the needs of dataconsumers
- Maintainingthe Analytics Catalog and associated metadata records
- Testing analytics build in a specified testing environment and volume testing in live environments
- Reviewing upgrade documentation related to Cogitofeaturesand determining how to implement the changes
- BIDs might also be responsible for building and maintaining:
- Cubes
- Extracts
- SlicerDicer custom filters
- Third-party BI tools
- Epic data in Caboodle
Key competencies
- A degree in engineering, physics, computer sciences, math, information systems, or statistics
- Strong communication skills
- Critical thinking and an analytical mind
- User-focused design and data visualization skills
- Proficiency with SQL and relational database concepts
- Proficiency and demonstrated experience with analytics tools
- Familiarity with Epic applications and database structure, through training that occurs early in the implementation
- Ability to gain an in-depth understanding of the data model through data model classes geared toward content areas
- Ability to understand data structures that could benefit the entire data environment
- For financial reporting: Prior experience working with an AR system is desirable, but not required
- For clinical reporting: Prior experience working with an EMR system is desirable, but not required
Ideally, BIDs design and create analytics solutionsbased on an in-depth knowledge of operational system usage. This level of knowledge requires a deep understanding of system build, end user workflows, and patterns of use. The best BIDs have both the technical skills required to design and write reports and the operational knowledge to help them understand what report consumers need to see.
Work Shift
Workday Day (United States of America)
Worker Sub Type
Regular
Employee Entity
Thomas Jefferson University
Primary Location Address
1101 Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Benefits
Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD26D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time(including per diemcolleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.
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