Health System Quality Analytics Team Lead

WHY UT SOUTHWESTERN? With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. As a world-renowned medical and research center, we strive to provide the best possible care, resources, and benefits for our valued employees. Ranked as the No. 1 hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth according to U.S. News & World Report , we invest in you with opportunities for career growth and development to align with your future goals. Our highly competitive benefits package offers healthcare, PTO and paid holidays, on-site childcare, wage, merit increases and so much more. We invite you to be a part of the UT Southwestern team where you'll discover a culture of teamwork, professionalism, and a rewarding career! JOB SUMMARY This position leads and mentors team members who deliver quality analytics and reporting for health system leadership. The role independently performs advanced analysis, develops executive reports—including the Health System Balanced Scorecard—and establishes business rules for the use and presentation of data. Serving as the health system’s Tableau subject matter expert, this position oversees dashboard architecture, data modeling, workbook development, publishing, performance optimization, governance, access controls, and operational support. It establishes standards for data sources, extracts, refresh schedules, workbook performance, and visualization practices. The role continuously improves dashboards and executive reporting while ensuring all published content meets ADA accessibility, security, and institutional governance requirements. It also provides expert consultation and technical guidance to stakeholders, delivering scalable, high-performing analytics that support data-driven decision-making across the health system. The position may also support annual performance evaluations, employee timekeeping, and other administrative or supervisory responsibilities as assigned. BENEFITS UT Southwestern is proud to offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees. Our benefits are designed to support your overall wellbeing, and include: • PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage • 100% coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay • Paid Time Off, available day one • Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) • Paid Parental Leave Benefit • Wellness programs • Tuition Reimbursement • Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer • Learn more about these and other UTSW employee benefits! EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION Required • Education Bachelor's Degree In Business Administration, Computer Science or other quantitative fields of study • Experience 5 years Analytics and project experience in data querying, statistical programming and data visualization using tools such as SAS, SQL, R, Power BI, Tableau, or SSRS. and 3 years Experience supporting analytics efforts for performance improvement projects or certification in LEAN/Six Sigma Green Belt or Certification as a Project Management Professional Preferred • Education Master's Degree In Business Administration, Public Health, Computer Science, Health Administration or other quantitative fields of study • Experience Greater than 1 year of prior health care industry experience JOB DUTIES • Leads highly complex projects and serves as primary customer contact. Defines and maintains project plan and schedules. Monitors compliance with definitions of project scope, timelines, and deliverables. Provides regular project status reports to customer and internal management. • Designs and develops predictive and advanced analytics, utilizing multiple data sources simultaneously. • Analyzes and organizes data using the appropriate analytical and statistical methods, which includes: • Ability to analyze and evaluate information to support a decision or recommendation • Critically examining the information and make judgements--test, critique, defend, and criticize the information • Anticipate and plan strategies for overcoming obstacles • Designs, develops or recommends improvements to management reporting tools as needed. • Sets team and departmental standards for reporting and analysis methodology. • Leads lower level analysts in the collection, interpretation and analysis of clinical data to support organizational decision making, clinical and quality initiatives and strategic planning activities. Runs data queries and produces consistently accurate analyses with value added recommendations. • Generally organizes, plans for scheduling, coordinating resources, and meeting deadlines. In addition to supporting the successful execution of assignments, these skills support the development of effective working relationships with stakeholders by facilitating trust and transparency. • Sets team and departmental standards for project management templates, expectations and guidelines. • Provides practical recommendations through thorough research on business process improvements and clinical operation benchmarks to directors and executive leaders. Assists in developing and implementing business strategies in departments to improve clinical outcomes and productivity. • Leads executive level meetings with prior preparation such as meeting agendas, analytical presentations and project plans. Builds positive collaborative relationships with clinical leadership, departmental personnel, and executive sponsors. Assists managerial staff in consensus building through a combination of leadership and facilitation. • Provides analytics architectural oversight and guides the process of developing business requirements documents. Enables the analytics teams to collaborate with the data warehouse department through entire development cycle. • Ensures analyst teams record time spent on projects to meet cost-recovery requirements. • Supervises lower level analysts. Signif