Epic Cogito Business Intelligence Developer Analyst

About the role

The Epic Cogito Business Intelligence Developer Analyst plays a crucial role in supporting the mission of delivering operational excellence across clinical and financial systems. This position involves designing, developing, and maintaining enterprise analytics solutions using Epic’s Cogito reporting suite.

Responsibilities

• Ownership & Initiative: Take ownership of projects, drive work forward, and seek opportunities to add value.
• Strong DecisionMaking: Analyze challenges, gather insights, and make informed decisions, even with limited information.
• ResultsDriven Mindset: Set high standards, deliver results, prioritize effectively, and align work with broader team and organizational goals.
• Adaptability & Resilience: Thrive in dynamic environments, stay composed under pressure, and embrace new ways of working.
• Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Challenge the status quo, bring fresh ideas, and drive meaningful improvements in processes and outcomes.
• Project Management Expertise: Bring a strong foundation in project management, planning, prioritizing, and executing with precision.
• Growth Mindset: Commit to continuous learning and development, seek feedback, and share knowledge with others.
• MissionDriven: Embodify and promote Xtensys' vision and values, aligning work with the broader mission.

Additional Responsibilities

• Working with other BI Developers, Cogito Developers, Analytics Business Analysts, Clinical Informatics, application teams, and customers to gather, analyze, and document reporting requirements.
• Designing, coding, testing, and maintaining reporting and analytics objects, including extracts, utilizing industry best practices.
• Providing production support and responding to help desk tickets related to the BI development tool set and Epic Cogito suite.
• Supporting the ongoing support and maintenance of the infrastructure and applications which support all institutions, along with the implementation of new services and applications.
• Performing design and code reviews of developed solutions for quality assurance.
• Focusing on enterprise build and long-term system maintenance.
• Designing and developing metrics, reports, and analyses of intermediate to advanced complexity to drive key business decisions.
• Collaborating with team members to develop BI solutions in a proficient and timely manner, consistent with estimates created during design.
• Testing solutions developed prior to any external reviews or testing.
• Coordinating with Business Analysts, Data Architects, Structured Quality Language (SQL) Administrators, BI Administrators, and others to understand and document technical requirements, capabilities, and limitations.
• Prioritizing tasks with guidance from the manager, designated lead, supervisor, or project manager.
• Researching questions and issues involving Production Reporting solutions.
• Must coordinate projects without direct supervisory authority.
• Must work within the constraints of multiple technical environments.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience independently working with Clarity and Caboodle schema.
• A minimum of two years of experience in a healthcare setting in a similar role supporting report requests and use of Epic’s Cogito ergo sum Enterprise Intelligence suite and UserWeb.
• A minimum of two years of experience with SQL writing complex, highly optimized queries across large volumes of data, query performance tuning, and stored procedures.
• Demonstrated experience using Epic’s Reporting Workbench extract framework and Batch Scheduler.
• Experience in at least one Epic implementation preferred.
• Demonstrated experience working through the complete report development lifecycle for small to medium scale projects.
• Strong understanding of BI reporting best practices.
• The individual in this position must learn many organizational structures and cultures and continually foster collaboration.
• Ability to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing.
• Proven Track Record: Reporting lifecycle development including requirements gathering, tracking/updating build in Jira, and communication with requesters.
• Supporting upgrades, Special Updates, completing Epic Nova Notes, utilizing Sherlock, and Checklists as appropriate.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Health Information Systems, Information Technology, or related field or equivalent combination of education/experience.
• Current and active Epic certifications are required in Cogito, Caboodle Data Model, Clarity Data Model, Clinical and/or Revenue Data Model.
• Technical Savvy: Proven experience in leveraging knowledge of Epic Foundation and Epic applications to optimize workflows and improve patient care.
• Communication: An ability to translate "tech-speak" into helpful, clear solutions for non-technical users.

Skills

• Clarity and Caboodle schema.
• SQL writing complex, highly optimized queries.
• Epic’s Reporting Workbench extract framework and Batch Scheduler.
• Experience in at least one Epic implementation.
• BI reporting best practices.
• Reporting lifecycle development including requirements gathering, tracking/updating build in Jira, and communication with requesters.
• Supporting upgrades, Special Updates, completing Epic Nova Notes, utilizing Sherlock, and Checklists as appropriate.
• Current and active Epic certifications in Cogito, Caboodle Data Model, Clarity Data Model, Clinical and/or Revenue Data Model.
• Knowledge of Epic Foundation and Epic applications.
• Ability to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing.

Benefits

Up to 20% travel is required, primarily for go-live support to hospitals within the Central New York region.

Physical Readiness: Capability for sedentary work, including sitting for long periods and occasionally exerting up to 10 pounds of force.