Lead Business Intelligence Developer

Children's Mercy KC • Kansas City, MO

2d • $51 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Lead Business Intelligence Developer is a senior technical leader who delivers trusted, enterprise-grade BI data models and curated datasets that support reporting and self-service analytics across clinical, operational, and other domains. Lead Developer exhibits deep BI expertise and strong leadership, autonomy, and decision-making accountability. Developer sets standards for data modeling, metric definitions, and analytics best practices, while leading by example through hands-on development, technical guidance, and mentorship. The Lead BI Developer partners with cross-functional teams to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and scalability, and plays a key role in prioritization, design decisions, and continuous improvement of BI capabilities. The Lead BI Developer focuses on the analytics consumption and semantic layer, leveraging platforms such as Epic and Databricks, and ensuring analytics-ready data that enables reliable insights and self-service across the organization.
At Children’s Mercy, we are committed to ensuring that everyone feels welcomed within our walls. A successful candidate for this position will join us as we strive to create a workplace that reflects the community we serve, as well as our core values of kindness, curiosity, inclusion, team and integrity.
Additionally, it’s important to us that we remain transparent with all potential job candidates. Because we value the safety of the patients and families we serve, as well as the Children’s Mercy staff, we want to let you know that the seasonal influenza vaccine is a condition of employment for all employees in our organization. New employees must be willing to be vaccinated if found non-immune to measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) and chicken pox (varicella) and/or without evidence of tetanus, diphtheria, acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccination since 2005. If you are selected for this position, you will be asked to supply your immunization records as proof of vaccination. If you and have any concerns about receiving these vaccines, medical and/or religious exemptions can be further discussed with Human Resources.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree and 5-7 years' experience. Relevant experience in business intelligence, analytics engineering, data analytics, or related experience. Preferred hands-on exposure to Epic data systems and modern data platforms.
• OR
• Associate's Degree and 7 or more years' experience. Relevant experience in business intelligence, analytics engineering, data analytics, or related experience. Preferred hands-on exposure to Epic data systems and modern data platforms.
• At least 1 application specific Epic certification within the first 120 days of hire. Tracked by department leader. Required

Nice To Haves

• Preferred hands-on exposure to Epic data systems and modern data platforms.
• Preferred hands-on exposure to Epic data systems and modern data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain high-quality, reusable BI data products (datasets, semantic models, reports, and dashboards) within the Epic ecosystem (Clarity, Caboodle, Cogito, etc.) to support reliable analytics and self-service reporting across the organization.
• Provide technical leadership by setting best practices, guiding design decisions, and mentoring team members to elevate overall BI capability.
• Drive adoption and effective use of enterprise governed data products by providing advanced guidance, consultation, and technical leadership to data practitioners and stakeholders, enabling consistent, trusted self-service analytics across the organization with a focus on the Ambulatory and Access spaces.
• Design, build, and maintain reliable, scalable data pipelines and analytics-ready deliverables sourced mainly from the Epic ecosystem (Clarity, Caboodle, Cogito), ensuring accurate extraction, transformation, and integration into the CMDP and other downstream analytics platforms.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior BI developers and analytics partners, promoting best practices and consistent, high-quality delivery.

Benefits

• The benefits plans at Children’s Mercy are one of many reasons we are recognized as one of the best places to work in Kansas City. Our plans are designed to meet the changing needs of our employees and their families.
• Learn more about Children’s Mercy benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees