Director, Data & Decision Support
Director, Data & Decision Support
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Job Description
The Director Data & Decision Support plays a pivotal role in executing Epworths data strategy ensuring data-driven insights are leveraged to support business objectives drive innovation and enable strategic growth. This senior role leads the development implementation and governance of enterprise-wide reporting systems and collaborates closely with executive leadership and key stakeholders to unlock the full value of data across the organisation.
Partnering closely with Information Technology and executive leadership the Director is across the full data lifecycle from ingestion and modelling through to semantic layer design governance and visualisation ensuring solutions are architected for performance compliance and long-term maintainability.
The Director leads a small high-performing team of reporting analysts and fosters a culture of analytical excellence continuous improvement and compliance with data governance standards.
Key Responsibilities:
- Strategic Leadership: Champion the development of data-driven products platforms and solutions that support Epworths 2030 strategy and supporting predictive prescriptive and ML-enabled analytics.
- Innovative: Explore opportunities to embed data driven decision making across the business and leverage the full value of our data assets
- Future Focused: Support Epworth to move towards proactive self-serve analytics keeping abreast of a rapidly changing industry and enabling increased focus on predictive and prospective analytics while enforcing governance access control and visualisation standards.
- Team Leadership: Manage and mentor a small team cultivating a high-performance culture focused on analytical excellence and continuous improvement.
- Community of Practice: Establish and manage a cross-functional data community to promote best practices ensure alignment with business objectives and foster a culture of data excellence.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Represent Data & Analytics in Steering Committees AI working groups and governance forums influencing organisational adoption of modern data capabilities at Epworth.
- Communication & Influence: Translate complex technical concepts into clear actionable insights for non-technical audiences and influence key stakeholders to drive successful outcomes.
- Operational Insight: Identify challenges and emerging issues proactively implement effective solutions and continuously improve data-related processes.
- Capability Uplift: Lead initiatives to enhance Epworths data capability including governance adoption compliance and value realisation.
To be successful in this role
You are an experienced leader who can lead the development of their team while delivering an ambitious multi-year modernisation strategy. You are passionate about the art of the possible with an eye on evolving industry trends and advances in technology and a detailed plan to embed them.
You are a strategic thinker and role model across the leadership team with the ability to navigate ambiguity and foster a data-driven culture. You demonstrate high levels of initiative resilience and professionalism with a strong ability to plan prioritise and execute under pressure.
You are an effective communicator and relationship builder capable of translating complex data into actionable insights and influencing diverse stakeholders. You are skilled in communicating with non-technical stakeholders clearing articulating what has happened what needs to happen and why. You thrive in dynamic environments and are committed to continuous learning customer service and clinical excellence.
Role Requirements
Qualifications & Experience
- Tertiary qualification in data analytics information systems or a related technical discipline.
- 5 years experience in senior data leadership roles overseeing reporting and analytics.
- Strong leadership skills with a track record of building and mentoring high-performance technical teams.
- Experience in healthcare and commercial environments applying data to improve operational clinical and commercial outcomes.
- Proven track record in delivering large-scale strategies transformation programs and analytics initiatives
- Expertise in business intelligence insights and process improvement
- Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship management across complex multi-site organisations
- Excellent communication presentation and strategic planning skills
- Strong analytical mindset with sound judgment and decision-making capabilities
Technical Competencies
- Power BI Advanced Proficiency: Desktop Service Gateway deployment pipelines and Premium capacity management.
- Data Modelling: Star/snowflake schema design semantic model optimisation calculated tables/measures and hierarchy management.
- SQL Intermediate Proficiency: Query optimisation performance troubleshooting and data lineage analysis.
- ETL/ELT & Data Integration Awareness: Source-to-report data flow understanding API integration refresh orchestration.
- Performance Optimisation: Model size reduction query folding and use of Performance Analyzer.
- BI Governance: Data cataloguing metadata management naming conventions version control.
- Security & Access Control: RLS policies dataset permissions RBAC.
- Cloud Platforms: Familiarity with Azure Databricks and GCP data services (desirable).
- Modern Data Architecture: Lakehouse concepts data mesh sensibilities hybrid cloud/on-prem integration.
Why Join Epworth
This is a critical and exciting opportunity to shape Epworths data strategy and capability ensuring the organisation remains competitive and forward-thinking in an increasingly data-driven world.
Position Description Inherent Requirement
Additional Information :
At Epworth its a community
Its the sense of belonging and being part of an organisation and a team that works to make sure that every patient addition to this you will have access to:
- Salary package up to $15900 pre-tax annually leading to greater take home pay
- The largest educational scholarship program of its kind in Australia
- Discounted private health insurance
- Ability to purchase up to four additional weeks of leave
Enquire/ Apply
Sound interesting To apply click the Im Interested button to attach your CV and cover letter.
For more information refer to the attached position description or contact or phone (03).
Please Note: Applications will be reviewed as they are received and the position may be filled before the application closing date.
It is a condition of employment with Epworth HealthCare subject to reasonable exemptions that you have had an annual Influenza vaccination where this is required under Epworth policy.
As a child safe organisation all successful applicants are required to satisfactorily clear a National Police Check (conducted by Epworth) and may be required to hold a valid employee Working with Children Check (provided by you).
At Epworth we believe inclusion and diversity are essential to our culture and values. We focus on fairness and opportunity for all across race ability ethnicity gender age sexuality cultures and beliefs that reflect the communities we work in. At Epworth we care.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
