Lead Director-Solutions Architect - Epic

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Lead Director, Solutions Architect
- Epic Applications (STARS Reporting & Care Coordination/Healthy Planet)

The Lead Director, Solutions Architect
- Epic Applications is a senior technical and strategic leader responsible for the architecture, design, and delivery of Epic solutions supporting Medicare Star Ratings (STARS) reporting, care coordination, and population health management via Epic Healthy Planet. This role bridges deep Epic technical expertise with a strong understanding of value-based care, quality measures, and risk adjustment, translating regulatory and business requirements into scalable Epic architecture.

The ideal candidate has led enterprise-level Epic initiatives, understands the data and workflow demands of STARS/HEDIS/quality reporting, and can architect solutions that span Healthy Planet, Care Everywhere, Reporting Workbench, and related population health tools.

• Own the end-to-end solutions architecture for Epic Healthy Planet, care coordination workflows, and STARS/HEDIS/quality measure reporting
• Design scalable data models and workflows connecting Epic Clarity/Caboodle, Healthy Planet registries, care management, and risk stratification tools to STARS and quality reporting needs
• Serve as the technical authority on Epic's population health suite (Healthy Planet, Care Everywhere, Home Health, ACO-specific tools) and its integration with clinical, claims, and payer data sources
• Partner with enterprise architecture and data teams to ensure Epic solutions align with broader data governance, interoperability (FHIR/HL7), and analytics strategy
• Evaluate and recommend build vs. buy decisions for third-party STARS/quality vendors integrating with Epic

• Lead the design and optimization of Epic-based workflows supporting CMS Star Ratings, HEDIS measures, and quality gap closure
• Ensure Epic build accurately supports care gap identification, outreach workflows, and measure-specific documentation requirements
• Partner with quality, risk adjustment, and compliance teams to translate regulatory measure specifications (NCQA, CMS) into Epic build requirements
• Oversee reporting architecture (Reporting Workbench, Slicer Dicer, Clarity/Caboodle-based reporting) to support STARS performance tracking and executive dashboards

• Architect and oversee build for care management workflows: registries, care plans, risk stratification, transitions of care, and care team communication
• Ensure Healthy Planet configuration supports ACO, MA, and population health program requirements
• Drive integration between Healthy Planet and external care coordination platforms, HIEs, and payer systems

• Lead and mentor a team of Epic analysts, architects, and/or engineers focused on population health applications
• Partner with clinical, quality, compliance, and network/ACO leadership to align technical roadmap with business strategy
• Present architecture decisions, risks, and roadmap to senior IT and business leadership
• Participate in Epic governance, upgrade planning, and enterprise architecture review boards
• Manage vendor relationships related to STARS/quality reporting tools and population health platforms

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