Sr. IT Consultant - Enterprise Analytics

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About Duke Health Technology Solutions

Pursue your passion for caring and innovation with Duke Heath Technology Solutions, which is dedicated to the transformation, development, and management of enterprise information technology solutions across Duke Health. By harnessing the power of innovative technologies like cloud computing and artificial intelligence — and pairing them with a forward-thinking approach — Duke Health Technology Solutions is revolutionizing the future of health care at Duke Health and beyond.

Primary Role:

The Senior Consultant of Enterprise is responsible for overseeing and managing the enterprise analytics franchise model. This role involves leading the development and implementation of analytics strategies, ensuring data governance, and driving the standard adoption of analytics tools and methodologies across the health system. The Senior Consultant will play a crucial role in aligning analytics initiatives with business objectives and fostering a data-driven culture within the organization.

Reporting Relationship

Reports directly to the Chief Analytics Officer

Key Responsibilities:

•    Strategic Leadership: Develop and execute a comprehensive analytics strategy that supports the organization's goals and objectives. Provide strategic direction and leadership to the analytics team.
•    Consultative and Collaborative relationships: Develop relationships with clinical, business. and functional leaders to identify and scope strategic opportunities that foster value creation potential.
•    Operational Excellence: Provide analytics support to drive operational excellence and enhance efficiency across the organization.
•    Strategic Partnership: Partner with the strategy office to create and align strategic priorities, ensuring that analytics initiatives support the overall strategic direction of the organization.
•    Governance: Lead, establish, and maintain data governance and analytics governance frameworks to ensure data quality, integrity, and security. Oversee the development and maintenance of a central repository of definitions and dashboards.
•    Stakeholder Management: Lead the analytics franchise stakeholder governance group to ensure effective data ownership and clear dashboard definitions. Engage with service line and executive leadership to create standardized benchmarks and targets.
•    Analytics Adoption: Drive the adoption of analytics tools and methodologies within the organization. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment between analytics initiatives and business objectives.
•    Technology: Arrange and manage technology/product/solution demos with internal stakeholders and external clients/customers.
•    Innovation and Improvement: Stay up-to-date with industry trends and advancements in analytics. Identify innovative solutions to data and analytics challenges and implement continuous improvement initiatives.
•    Professional Development: Attract, mentor, and develop a diverse team of high performing service-oriented analytics and data science professionals, fostering an environment of innovation, collaboration, and professional growth.
•    Project Coordination: Lead cross-functional teams to successfully deliver special analytics projects applying agile principles and methodologies. Manage project timelines, resources, and dependencies to achieve project goals within scope, budget, and quality standards.

Goals and Objectices:
    
The following goals and objectives have been identified as priorities for this position. Goals and objectives are subject to change as the priorities of the organization change. 

The successful Senior Consultant for Enterprise Analytics will:
•    Build trusted relationships and partner with senior management and become fully integrated into the leadership team across service lines and departments. Be perceived as a solid team player who has credibility, integrity and contributes broadly as a subject matter leader for analytics and data science.
•    Provide guidance and support for a high performing and sophisticated team. Enable a culture that energizes and is supportive of staff and offers career growth and development opportunities to aid in recruitment and retention.
•    Develop, implement, and enforce formalized practices and standards to support clinical and business intelligence across the healthsystem
•    Learn the data technology platforms currently in place and develop the future strategy to build upon and enhance the ecosystem in alignment with the priorities and goals of the health system

Education/training
•    Bachelor's degree in a related field, or four years of equivalent technical experience required
•    Advanced degree in data science, analytics, or a related field preferred.

Required Experience
•    Proven experience in a senior leadership role, with a focus on data and analytics.
•    Demonstrated understanding of analytics principles, including data governance, data warehousing, and analytics platforms.
•    Profiencey in business management principles such as Lean and/or Six Sigma.
•    Proficiency in data management concepts and technologies, including data warehousing, ETL processes, and analytics platforms.
•    Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into actionable product features.
•    Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
•    Experience with agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban) and agile project management tools 
•    Healthcare industry experience

Preferred Experience
•    Excellent problem solving and communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to healthcare and research stakeholders.
•    Experience working with healthcare professionals and researchers to understand their healthcare and research objective

The intent of this job description is to provide a representative and level of the types of duties and responsibilities that will be required of positions given this title and shall not be construed as a declaration of the total of the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employees may be directed to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.
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Essential Physical Job Functions
Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essential job functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.

Duke is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy related conditions), sexual orientation or military status.

Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends onthe robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.

Essential Physical Job Functions: Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essential job functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.