Lead Business Intelligence Specialist - Epic Cogito (Hybrid)

Northwell•Melville, NY

4h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Lead Business Intelligence Specialist provides technical leadership for Epic Cogito analytics and enterprise BI solutions at Northwell Health. This role leads Epic-based analytics initiatives, ensuring strong integration with modern BI tools and enterprise standards. The primary focus is on driving and overseeing front-end Cogito development, including building, optimizing, and ensuring the adoption of Reporting Workbench reports, Radar dashboards/components, SlicerDicer sessions, and related Cogito content for reliable self-service analytics. The specialist leads the analysis of quantitative and qualitative data from internal and external sources to support business decisions, translates business requirements into detailed technical design and programming specifications, and oversees data analysis, identification of data sources, and modification of data architecture as needed. This role plans, leads, and guides business intelligence initiatives.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience.
5-7 years of relevant experience and progressive experience where team leadership was demonstrated, required.

Nice To Haves

Advanced Epic analytics experience, including Cogito, Clarity, and Caboodle
Current Epic Cogito, Clarity, and Caboodle certifications or advanced demonstrated competency
Strong experience with BI tools
Strong SQL and leadership skills
Cloud & Data Platform Experience: Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services (e.g., BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub).

Responsibilities

Lead development of dashboards and reports using Epic Cogito, Power BI, and Tableau
Partner with stakeholders to define, prioritize, and deliver complex reporting solutions
Lead analytics development using Epic Clarity and Caboodle
Establish BI standards, best practices, and documentation
Mentor BI team members and guide analytics delivery
Leads the data analysis to produce dashboards, metrics, or insights and identify trends or anomalies.
Liaises with decision makers to identify data sources, required data elements, or data validation standards.
Oversees collaboration with development teams to design business intelligence solutions to facilitate data gathering, storage, and retrieval.
Oversees collaboration with end users in the design and development of custom dashboards, metrics and reports.
Leads the analysis and evaluation of end users reporting needs and translates business requirements into detailed technical design and programming specifications.
Oversees research and data analysis in support of resolution of production issues.
Coordinates with other IT groups and departments in the resolution of problem calls.
Inspects the documentation of all report related activities including user requests, report specification, development, modification, testing and on-going production support.
Ensures dashboard and reporting solutions are created to meet user needs and requirements.
Conducts internal process reviews to ensure compliance to policies and practices.
Performs related duties as required.