Senior Epic Cogito Analyst​/Builder

Work Shift

Day

Work Day(s)

Monday-Friday

Shift Start Time

8:00 AM

Shift End Time

5:00 PM

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Job Description

The Senior Epic Cogito Analyst/Builder provides strong analytical and troubleshooting skills for implementing and proactively supporting clinical and operational self‑service analytics tools at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, with a special focus on tools within the electronic health record (Epic Systems). Works closely with business users and stakeholders to determine and manage data requirements for a project, program, or initiative. Has expertise in self‑service analytics with a strong understanding of the data ecosystem and can guide end users to the best tools to fulfill data requests.

Advocates for user needs and is a technical subject‑matter expert for configuring new reports and visualizations. They will also have strong relationships with Business Intelligence developers who can augment what is available through custom reporting as well as Epic Analysts who can configure groupers, registries, and other tools in Epic to facilitate reporting.

Experience

• 3+ years of experience as an Epic Cogito Analyst with significant involvement in data‑driven projects for quality improvement, research, or operations, or other organizational needs

Preferred Qualifications

• 1 year of experience in the role of Epic Cogito Analyst at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta or equivalent experience
• Experience in Epic is required

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, related field, or equivalent technical training and experience or front‑line clinical experience (e.g., nursing, respiratory therapy, pharmacy, etc.) with experience participating in data‑driven projects.

Certification Summary

• No professional certifications required

Knowledge,

Skills and Abilities

• High capacity for data analysis, problem‑solving, sound judgment, accuracy, and attention to detail.
• Proven strong oral presentation, facilitation, and documentation skills.
• Proven organizational, problem‑solving, analytical, and time management skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills to interact positively and productively with teams across organizational lines.
• Technical ability to understand complex systems.
• Flexibility to manage multiple initiatives and shift priorities based on organizational needs.
• Ability to perform job duties independently with minimal supervision.
• Proven Data Analysis skillsets such as: eliciting, organizing, and managing business and technical requirements, process and workflow design, data validation, summarizing data sets, data visualization, run charts and control charts, Excel.
• Data analysis skills (e.g., using R, Python, or other statistical programming language) are preferred but not required.

Job Responsibilities

• Acts as primary liaison between functional areas, leadership, and project teams to align analytics work with organizational priorities.
• Leads requirements discovery with end users and stakeholders, including clinical and operational leaders.
• Selects and applies appropriate elicitation methods and coaches junior staff on their use.
• Advises on complex data needs and recommends the most effective tools and assets in the data ecosystem.

• Produces clear, comprehensive requirements for complex and cross‑functional initiatives.
• Designs and reviews models of business workflows and supporting data/technology (e.g., use cases, flow charts, swim lanes).
• Documents functional, interface, performance, and security requirements, including key constraints.
• Ensures documentation follows organizational standards and mentors others on best practices.
• Oversees use of tools (e.g., Epic Analytics Catalog) to maintain accurate definitions, ownership, and governance.

• Leads requirements prioritization and scope management across multiple stakeholders.
• Manages requirements change control and traceability through design and build.
• Partners with BI and Epic Analysts to design and implement scalable system builds for self‑service reporting and analytics.
• Independently configures self‑service tools and complex…