Sr. Operations Report Developer/Analyst (NOTE: EPIC Certification required)

A Brief Overview

The Senior Operations Report Developer/Analyst works with team to design, develop, modify and test data marts and data models that meet the hospital system's needs. Requires a thorough understanding of complex large scale data models for healthcare clinical and business systems and the underlying associated processes. This role collaborates with a small team of report developers and SME to create and enhance clinical intelligence and business intelligence solutions. The current report development platform includes Sunrise Clinical Analytics and SQL Server Reporting Services.

Ideal candidate will create custom EPIC reports across the system's applications, as well as work on operations data guided by the Sr. Director.

What You Will Do

• Fully engaged in all aspects of the project/reporting process. Regularly participates as the development expert for projects in meeting phase and in taskforces. Leads writing detailed functional specifications for larger projects. Presents solutions to development issues or escalates if necessary.
• Challenges project assumptions or process roadblocks. Communicates effective application of the project process across larger team.
• Leads the design of programming and process solutions for multiple business problems. Anticipates future impact to associated systems. Uses design skills to develop flexible, efficient reporting dashboards.
• Solves and implements changes which resolve unstructured, more complex business or technical issues which impact one or more systems. Coaches others on identifying, solving and implementing the resolution of complex problems
• Leads design decisions on a project team. Acts as a technical leader and has earned the customer's confidence in technical areas.
• Works with manager/supervisor to initiate and lead team-based initiatives across work groups. Regularly provides constructive feedback to team members.
• Regularly develops and manages (possibly informal) project plans for smaller teams using management techniques and tools with minimal assistance.
• Develop requirements and specifications in coordination with Database Administration team and UH Architects for data marts and data warehouses to support clinical and business analytics. Gather appropriate specifications for data collection and transformation requirements and build report prototypes rapidly and accurately.
• Writes data retrieval programs to import, extract, transfer, and load (ETL) data from heterogeneous data sources throughout the organization to support ad hoc reporting.
• Designs, develops and supports "self-service" reporting options (i.e building tabular data models).
• Create functional and technical documentation including as-built documents, dashboard design specifications, operating manuals, release notes and security requirements for reports created and maintained. Update documentation on an annual basis or when changes occur.
• Writes stored procedures and indexes, and completes code reviews in conjunction with DBA and/or development team and provides guidance to reporting team members on their code development.
• Perform quality assurance testing of reports and dashboards, and facilitate user acceptance testing (UAT) sessions. Ensure quality of the reports prior to releasing to production.
• Provides technical support in retrieving data from a variety of database types and languages utilizing T-SQL as may be required.
• Perform quality assurance testing of reports and facilitates user acceptance testing (UAT). Ensure quality of the reports prior to releasing to production. Develops and maintains documentation templates and standards for documentation of data extraction and output specifications, reports and other requirements.
• Proactively identifies and addresses scalability and performance bottlenecks to support data volumes.
• Where appropriate, evaluate and recommend new tools in clinical intelligence, reporting, and analysis.
• On-call duties as required

Additional Responsibilities

• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.
• For specific duties and responsibilities, refer to documentation provided by the department during orientation.
• Must abide by all requirements to safely and securely maintain Protected Health Information (PHI) for our patients. Annual training, the UH Code of Conduct and UH policies and procedures are in place to address appropriate use of PHI in the workplace.