Enterprise Epic Architect

Interscripts, Inc. • Richmond, IN

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Enterprise Epic Architect is a senior technical leadership role responsible for the strategic design, governance, and optimization of the enterprise Epic analytics ecosystem, with a primary focus on the Epic Cogito analytics stack (Clarity, Caboodle, Cogito Cloud, SlicerDicer, Reporting Workbench, Radar, and Business Objects), Epic Cosmos, and Epic Agent Factory. This role serves as the enterprise authority on Epic data architecture, predictive modeling enablement, and analytics governance, ensuring infrastructure is scalable, secure, well governed, and aligned with organizational strategy across clinical, operational, and financial domains.
The Enterprise Epic Architect partners closely with Epic application teams, enterprise data analytics, IT infrastructure, compliance, and executive leadership to build a unified, trusted, and high performing analytics foundation. This role also leads analytics maturity efforts under Epic's Gold Stars and Honor Roll recognition programs, driving enterprise wide adoption of Epic reporting and analytics best practices to achieve and maintain industry recognized analytics excellence.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Health Informatics, or a related field required.
• Minimum 7 to 10 years of experience in healthcare data analytics, data architecture, or Epic application development.
• Minimum 5 years of direct experience working with Epic's Cogito analytics suite (Clarity, Caboodle, Cogito Cloud, Reporting Workbench, SlicerDicer, Radar).
• Experience supporting or architecting predictive modeling initiatives within a healthcare data environment.
• Demonstrated experience architecting enterprise scale data warehouse or lakehouse solutions in a healthcare environment.
• Experience with Epic data model structures and healthcare data standards (HL7, FHIR).
• Deep expertise in SQL and relational database design.
• Strong understanding of dimensional data modeling and enterprise data warehouse architecture.
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse, Power BI, or equivalent enterprise BI and cloud data platforms.
• Familiarity with predictive modeling concepts, feature engineering, and model validation practices.
• Strong understanding of HIPAA compliance and healthcare data governance requirements.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for executive and non-technical audiences.
• Strong leadership and mentorship capabilities.
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities across multiple stakeholders and departments.
• Strategic thinker with strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Analytical and metrics driven approach to tracking and improving reporting maturity benchmarks.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree preferred.
• Direct experience with Epic Cosmos and Epic Agent Factory strongly preferred.
• Prior experience leading or contributing to Epic Gold Stars and/or Honor Roll analytics submissions strongly preferred.
• Epic Cogito certification(s) required (Clarity and/or Caboodle Data Model Certification).
• Additional Epic certifications (Reporting Workbench, Business Objects, Radar) strongly preferred.
• Epic Cosmos and/or Agent Factory credentialing preferred as available.
• Working knowledge of Python, data pipeline tools, and modern data engineering practices a plus.
• Experience in a multi-hospital or health system enterprise environment.
• Prior experience leading enterprise architecture governance boards or technical steering committees.
• Experience supporting AI/ML or predictive modeling initiatives built on top of Epic data.
• Familiarity with Epic's Cosmos multi-organization data platform and Agent Factory automation framework.
• Direct prior experience achieving Epic Gold Stars or Honor Roll analytics recognition at a health system.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain the enterprise architecture for Epic's Cogito analytics suite, including Clarity, Caboodle, Cogito Cloud, and associated reporting and analytics tools.
• Define data architecture standards, governance policies, and best practices for extraction, transformation, and consumption of Epic clinical and operational data.
• Serve as the primary technical authority on Epic data models, schema design, and downstream data integration strategy.
• Develop and maintain the enterprise roadmap for Epic analytics capabilities, including migration and optimization strategy for Cogito Cloud, in alignment with organizational priorities.
• Architect and optimize Clarity, Caboodle, and Cogito Cloud data warehouse structures to support enterprise reporting, self-service analytics, and advanced data science initiatives.
• Provide architectural oversight for Reporting Workbench, Radar dashboards, SlicerDicer, and Business Objects universes to ensure consistency, performance, and scalability.
• Lead technical evaluation and adoption of new Epic analytics capabilities, including Epic Cosmos and Epic Agent Factory.
• Ensure Epic analytics environments are properly tuned, monitored, and maintained for performance and reliability.
• Lead enterprise strategy for leveraging Epic Cosmos multi-organization data to support benchmarking, research, and predictive analytics initiatives.
• Architect and govern the deployment of Epic Agent Factory based AI agents and automation solutions across clinical and operational workflows.
• Partner with clinical, operational, and data science stakeholders to identify high value use cases for Cosmos data and Agent Factory automation.
• Ensure appropriate governance, validation, and monitoring frameworks are in place for AI agents and Cosmos derived insights.
• Architect the data foundation required to support predictive modeling initiatives, including feature engineering pipelines sourced from Clarity, Caboodle, and Cosmos.
• Partner with data science and clinical informatics teams to operationalize predictive models within Epic workflows (e.g., risk scores, care gap alerts, deterioration indices).
• Ensure predictive model outputs are properly integrated, validated, and monitored within Epic and downstream reporting environments.
• Guide model governance practices including performance monitoring, drift detection, and revalidation cadence in partnership with data science teams.
• Analyze current state reporting and analytics utilization against Gold Stars and Honor Roll benchmarks to identify capability gaps and prioritize remediation.
• Partner with analytics team members and report developers to optimize dashboard design, self-service adoption, and reporting standardization in support of program criteria.
• Track, document, and present analytics maturity progress and program metrics to executive leadership and Epic program representatives.
• Use Gold Stars and Honor Roll participation as a benchmark to continuously elevate enterprise analytics quality, governance, and adoption standards.
• Establish and enforce data governance standards for Epic sourced data across the enterprise, ensuring compliance with HIPAA and organizational security policies.
• Partner with compliance, privacy, and security teams to ensure appropriate access controls, auditing, and data stewardship practices are in place.
• Define and maintain data lineage, metadata management, and documentation standards for enterprise Epic data assets, including Cosmos and Agent Factory outputs.
• Architect integration strategies connecting Epic Cogito data, Cosmos, and Agent Factory outputs with enterprise platforms including Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Azure, and other enterprise data warehouse or lakehouse environments.
• Collaborate with enterprise data teams to ensure Epic data is efficiently and securely made available for downstream reporting, analytics, and AI/ML use cases.
• Support integration of Epic data with emerging AI and automation initiatives, including data agents, AI Foundry, and Cosmos based solutions.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and mentor for Epic analytics developers, BI developers, and analytics engineers.
• Lead architectural design reviews and provide technical guidance on enterprise reporting, analytics, and predictive modeling projects.
• Partner with Epic application teams (Clinical, Revenue Cycle, Ambulatory, etc.) to ensure architectural alignment across the enterprise Epic ecosystem.
• Represent Data Analytics in enterprise architecture review boards, IT governance committees, and Epic upgrade planning sessions.
• Act as a strategic advisor to executive leadership on the capabilities, limitations, and opportunities within the Epic Cogito analytics platform, Cosmos, and Agent Factory.
• Partner with vendor relationships (Epic, Microsoft, and other analytics platform partners) to stay ahead of platform capabilities and roadmap changes.
• Support organizational AI and analytics strategy by ensuring the Epic data foundation is architected to support current and future advanced analytics, predictive modeling, and AI initiatives.

Benefits

• Hybrid with periodic onsite presence required for architecture reviews, governance meetings, and stakeholder collaboration.
• Occasional after-hours support may be required for critical system upgrades or maintenance windows.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior