Takes a lead role in the department's vision & implementation of the KP Colorado Business Intelligence program. The Business Intelligence lead will partner w/colleagues & customers to guide development of enterprise Colorado Data Warehouse & reporting solutions. The business Intelligence lead will drive the development of best practices for KPCO & mentor developers, analysts & other members of the BI team. The BI Lead will work w/technical & business teams to define & execute the KPCO data & BI delivery strategy. Maintain & support a culture of compliance, ethics & integrity. Responsible for ensuring ongoing compliance w/development practices in the BI program. Maintains knowledge of policies & procedures & performs in accordance w/applicable regulatory requirements, external laws & accreditation standards as they relate to the BI department.
Essential Functions:
- Mentor team of Cognos developers in best practices for design & development.
- Establishing specifications & standards for development & implementation of BI technologies.
- Work w/leadership team to develop & implement the data & reporting strategy.
- Create reports/dashboards/scorecards in Cognos (Query Studio, Analysis Studio & Framework Manager.
- Create ad hoc reports for internal Business Intelligence team & external customers
- Work collaboratively in a team environment w/the ability to interact effectively w/other groups in the organization.
- Communicate w/all levels of management regarding information needs. Ability to discuss these solutions w/both technical & business community.
- Take a lead role in collaborating w/national & regional IT teams on any issues involving architecture & design of data repositories, including development of new tables & Cognos frameworks.
- Creates or contributes to an information library or similar format/forum which promotes sharing of information w/analysts/users within & outside the department.
- Develops/maintains appropriate documentation on reports/dashboards/scorecards, during the development lifecycle.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- In addition to defined technical requirements, accountable for consistently demonstrating service behaviors & principles defined by the Kaiser Permanente Service Quality Credo, the KP Mission as well as specific departmental/organizational initiatives
- Also accountable for consistently demonstrating the knowledge, skills, abilities, & behaviors necessary to provide superior & culturally sensitive service to each other, to our members, & to purchasers, contracted providers & vendors
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
-A minimum of 7 years of experience w/Business Intelligence, ETL & database technologies (Cognos, Oracle, Informatica).
- A minimum of 3 years experience designing dimensional star schema data warehouse tables and/or developing complex ETL routines or PL/SQL.
- Bachelor's degree in computer information systems, computer science, business, or related area
-Advanced report development skills including strong understanding of the Cognos 8.x & 10.x toolset, including Query Studio, Report Studio, Analysis Studio & Framework Manager
- Extensive experience in the use of statistical or similar analytic applications, databases, & data access/programming tools such as SAS, Business Objects, Crystal Reports, or Cognos.
- Prior experience delivering complete Business Intelligence solutions in large organizations w/a user base of more than 300 users.
- Strong oral written & interpersonal skills for interacting & collaborating w/analysts, physicians, & business staff throughout all levels of the organization; ability to clearly communicate complex business problems & technical solutions.
- Proven track record leading development teams using agile methodologies delivering successful business intelligence solutions w/complex data sources.
- Ability to think abstractly beyond basic data requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to be productive w/minimal supervision
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience w/other BI reporting tools (Crystal, Business Objects WEBI, SAS, SPSS, QlikView)
- Prior experience implementing a BI user training program.
- Ability to create complex reports that require multiple data sources.
- Secondary degree in Business, Computer Science or Healthcare.
- Prior experience In Healthcare.
- Ability to lead reporting & development teams during the project cycle.
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
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