Enterprise Epic Architect - Contract to Hire

Our client is seeking a 6-month contract to hire resource local to Richmond, Indiana.

The Enterprise Epic Architect is a senior technical leadership role responsible for the strategic design, governance, and optimization of our client's Epic analytics ecosystem, with a primary focus on the Epic Cogito analytics stack (Clarity, Caboodle, Cogito Cloud, SlicerDicer, Reporting Workbench, Radar, and Business Objects), Epic Cosmos, and Epic Agent Factory. This role serves as the enterprise authority on Epic data architecture, predictive modeling enablement, and analytics governance, ensuring infrastructure is scalable, secure, well governed, and aligned with organizational strategy across clinical, operational, and financial domains. The Enterprise Epic Architect partners closely with Epic application teams, enterprise data analytics, IT infrastructure, compliance, and executive leadership to build a unified, trusted, and high performing analytics foundation. This role also leads the health systems analytics maturity efforts under Epic's Gold Stars and Honor Roll recognition programs, driving enterprise wide adoption of Epic reporting and analytics best practices to achieve and maintain industry recognized analytics excellence.

About the Role

Reports To Director Data Analytics, AI and Business Systems.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise Architecture and Data Strategy
• Design and maintain the enterprise architecture for Epic's Cogito analytics suite, including Clarity, Caboodle, Cogito Cloud, and associated reporting and analytics tools
• Define data architecture standards, governance policies, and best practices for extraction, transformation, and consumption of Epic clinical and operational data
• Serve as the primary technical authority on Epic data models, schema design, and downstream data integration strategy
• Develop and maintain the enterprise roadmap for Epic analytics capabilities, including migration and optimization strategy for Cogito Cloud, in alignment with organizational priorities

• Epic Cogito Stack Ownership
• Architect and optimize Clarity, Caboodle, and Cogito Cloud data warehouse structures to support enterprise reporting, self-service analytics, and advanced data science initiatives
• Provide architectural oversight for Reporting Workbench, Radar dashboards, SlicerDicer, and Business Objects universes to ensure consistency, performance, and scalability
• Lead technical evaluation and adoption of new Epic analytics capabilities, including Epic Cosmos and Epic Agent Factory
• Ensure Epic analytics environments are properly tuned, monitored, and maintained for performance and reliability

• Epic Cosmos and Agent Factory Enablement
• Lead enterprise strategy for leveraging Epic Cosmos multi-organization data to support benchmarking, research, and predictive analytics initiatives
• Architect and govern the deployment of Epic Agent Factory based AI agents and automation solutions across clinical and operational workflows
• Partner with clinical, operational, and data science stakeholders to identify high value use cases for Cosmos data and Agent Factory automation
• Ensure appropriate governance, validation, and monitoring frameworks are in place for AI agents and Cosmos derived insights

• Predictive Modeling and Advanced Analytics
• Architect the data foundation required to support predictive modeling initiatives, including feature engineering pipelines sourced from Clarity, Caboodle, and Cosmos
• Partner with data science and clinical informatics teams to operationalize predictive models within Epic workflows (e.g., risk scores, care gap alerts, deterioration indices)
• Ensure predictive model outputs are properly integrated, validated, and monitored within Epic and downstream reporting environments
• Guide model governance practices including performance monitoring, drift detection, and revalidation cadence in partnership with data science teams

• Epic Gold Stars and Honor Roll Analytics
• Analyze current state reporting and analytics utilization against Gold Stars and Honor Roll benchmarks to identify capability gaps and prioritize remediation
• Partner with analytics team members and report developers to optimize dashboard design, self-service adoption, and reporting standardization in support of program criteria
• Track, document, and present analytics maturity progress and program metrics to executive leadership and Epic program representatives
• Use Gold Stars and Honor Roll participation as a benchmark to continuously elevate enterprise analytics quality, governance, and adoption standards

• Data Governance and Security
• Establish and enforce data governance standards for Epic sourced data across the enterprise, ensuring compliance with HIPAA and organizational security policies
• Partner with compliance, privacy, and security teams to ensure appropriate access controls, auditing, and data stewardship practices are in place
• Define and maintain data lineage, metadata management, and documentation standards for enterprise Epic data assets, including Cosmos and Agent Factory outputs

• Cross-Platform Integration
• Architect integration strategies connecting Epic Cogito data, Cosmos, and Agent Factory outputs with enterprise platforms including Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Azure, and other enterprise data warehouse or lakehouse environments
• Collaborate with enterprise data teams to ensure Epic data is efficiently and securely made available for downstream reporting, analytics, and AI/ML use cases
• Support integration of Epic data with emerging AI and automation initiatives, including data agents, AI Foundry, and Cosmos based solutions

• Technical Leadership and Governance
• Serve as a subject matter expert and mentor for Epic analytics developers, BI developers, and analytics engineers
• Lead architectural design reviews and provide technical guidance on enterprise reporting, analytics, and predictive modeling projects
• Partner with Epic application teams (Clinical, Revenue Cycle, Ambulatory, etc.) to ensure architectural alignment across the enterprise Epic ecosystem
• Represent Data Analytics in enterprise architecture review boards, IT governance committees, and Epic upgrade planning sessions

• Strategic Partnership
• Act as a strategic advisor to executive leadership on the capabilities, limitations, and opportunities within the Epic Cogito analytics platform, Cosmos, and Agent Factory
• Partner with vendor relationships (Epic, Microsoft, and other analytics platform partners) to stay ahead of platform capabilities and roadmap changes
• Support organizational AI and analytics strategy by ensuring the Epic

Hybrid with periodic onsite presence required for architecture reviews, governance meetings, and stakeholder collaboration. Needs to be US citizen, local to Richmond, IN.

Occasional after-hours support may be required for critical system upgrades or maintenance windows