[Remote] Business Intelligence Analyst (System Application Analyst, Sr)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Oregon Health & Science University is committed to providing and supporting technology and information services that enhance health and science innovation. The Senior Business Intelligence Analyst will develop BI solutions, conduct business analysis, and provide production support to improve decision-making processes within the organization.

  • Responsibilities
  • Use business requirements to develop BI solutions, including ad hoc operational and analytical reports, dashboards, scheduled reports
  • Identifies opportunities for leveraging existing reporting assets to meet business requirements
  • Works closely with other OHSU IT staff to meet expectations for design reviews and coding standards
  • Provides issue resolution during Quality Assurance / User testing
  • Troubleshoot and analyze data processing failures and data issues using Chart review, Record Viewer, Clarity Data dictionary, and Caboodle Data Dictionary
  • Recommend changes to data models and metadata models to improve existing structures and code to increase performance, reliability, and efficiency
  • Provides technical expertise to departmental staff and customers to improve user experience
  • Facilitate the implementation and migration of the solution objects into production
  • Validating and testing with the customer as frequently as necessary to get sign-off that the solution meets the requirements
  • Provide training as necessary to the customer of the new report solution
  • Conduct discovery sessions with end users, front line staff, leadership, analysts, engineers and informaticians to gather and document detailed requirements that inform the design and development of new or modifications to existing BI solutions
  • Data analysis and profiling of source data to identify source tables, data definitions and business rules
  • Solution design. Taking into consideration options of tools and report structure/format that best meet the customer requirements, department direction, and policy
  • Respond to requests from customers to fix issues or apply enhancements to existing production reports
  • Communication with the customer to get clarification on support needs
  • Perform high level data analysis and initial sizing of the work to be done
  • Facilitate and coordinate the solution with other groups, e.g. Workflow, BIAA and other IT groups, as needed
  • Design, develop and test the solution
  • Work with the Customer to validate the solution and close the Ticket
  • Coordinate the migration of the changed report objects
  • Continually work to improve existing processes and daily work
  • Identify improvement opportunities for department or system
  • Facilitate the prioritization of improvement opportunities with organizational leadership
  • Serve as clinical BI content experts for cross-department projects such as Upgrades or Migration efforts
  • Mentorship of junior staff on Tools, subject matter and Process
  • Primary representation for Clinical BI in division level projects; will include impact analysis of Clinical BI stewarded content, the development of a mitigation plan, assignment and/or ownership of project tasks, oversight of project task executions, status reporting to leadership
  • Leading the creation, maintenance, and improvement of standard work and process documentation
  • Skills
  • Master's degree in computer science, a related field, or a clinical field and four years work related experience in the information technology field or a combination of clinical or operational healthcare environments; OR
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, a related field, or a clinical field and six years work related experience in the information technology field or a combination of clinical or operational healthcare environments; OR
  • Associate's degree in computer science, a related field, or a clinical field and seven years work related experience in the information technology field or a combination of clinical or operational healthcare environments; OR
  • Eight years work related experience in the information technology field or a combination of clinical or operational healthcare environments; OR
  • Equivalent combination of education and experience where one year of experience will be substituted for an Associate's degree and two years of experience will be substituted for a Bachelor's degree
  • Four years paid work experience as BI Developer (or equivalent classification)
  • Four years working with relational databases
  • Four years experience with developing semantic layers for data preparation
  • Experience with facilitating and documenting system requirements sessions
  • Experience creating technical documentation of reports and data/repo
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