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Lead Business Intelligence Developer

Henry Ford Health - Careers
Detroit, MI Full Time
POSTED ON 4/13/2026 CLOSED ON 7/10/2026

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Business Intelligence Developer position at Henry Ford Health - Careers?

GENERAL SUMMARY: 

Under the direction of a Manager, Director, or a Leader, develops and implements a comprehensive program to extract (using a computer language) or collect data, analyze it, and effectively report information from this data to a variety of customers in a user-friendly and actionable way. Able to conduct complex statistical analysis and develop new approaches to measurements and presentation of information. Our customers include physicians, physician groups, physician leaders, hospital leaders, the Board of Trustees, system leadership, transformation consulting, clinical/non-clinical services, Markets, Community, Service Lines, Revenue Cycle, Finance, any user needing information and external oversight/regulatory bodies. This position generates reports and supports comparative database assessment and maintenance regarding performance, clinical, operational, and improvement efforts. Mentor other developers to ensure the spread of knowledge, skills, and backup support. Rises to the varying demands and maintain quality during high pressure/deadlines with greater complexity and ambiguity. The Lead Business Intelligence Developer is a completely independent member of Core Analytics and plays a pivotal role in enhancing the data driven culture at Henry Ford Health System. The role is a trusted advisor to organization's leaders and team members in providing actionable interpretation of the information. Demonstrate reliability and expertise in working with and presenting information to customers at all levels, including but not limited to executives, physicians, clinical staff, peers, and external oversight/regulatory bodies. Must work with least amount of direction, manage deadlines, and maintain timeliness, delivery, and high quality of the products. Develops comprehensive solutions, ad-hoc reports, implements new or improved reporting processes to support strategic and clinical goals of the business operations. The Lead Developer fulfills complex requests, works effectively, provides clarity in ambiguous situations, manages deadlines, maintains timeliness, and quality of products. Engage and quickly adapts to evolving needs of the customers. Consistently demonstrate excellent analytical and problem-solving skills while maintaining keen attention to detail. Exemplifies leadership qualities and solution-creation mindset. 

 

-EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: 

  • Bachelor's Degree with a Healthcare, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics/Statistics, Business OR Applied Science major. 
  • Six to seven (6-7) years of experience in a healthcare OR business setting. 
  • Expert in the use of SQL, advance Excel, report building, tool development, requirement gathering and technical documentation. 
  • Experience in developing Relational Databases, Data Models, Data Visualizations, curated datasets, data cubes OR experience in Electronic Medical Record System (EMR) report development, functionality of any EMR (Epic, Cerner, McKesson or other widely used EMRs). 
  • Maintain code repositories on SCM system, merging, pushing, pulling, branching, staging and code commenting OR MS TFS. 
  • Expert in the use of Enterprise Databases OR Electronic Medical Record system. 
  • Developer level experience in at-least one programming language OR Electronic Medical Record system. 
  • Good understanding of dimensional models, de-normalized, normalized, unstructured, Hierarchical, Object-Oriented databases and Warehouse, be able to work on the development of data models. 
  • Basic understanding of Statistical and Machine Learning concepts. 
  • Expertise in data analysis, visualizations, and requirements gathering & documentation. 
  • Experience in any Business Intelligence tool like Tableau, Cognos, Looker, Toad, Minitab, Power BI, Qlik, SSRS OR any other. 
  • Working knowledge of Statistical analysis, sampling, confidence interval, distributions, control charts etc. 
  • Develop multidimensional semantic layer and analytics query objects for end-users. 
  • Proven customer service experience with strong active listening skills. 
  • Effectively and influentially presents complex information to diverse audiences. 
  • Expert written and verbal communication skills.
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