About Sound Physicians:
Headquartered in Tacoma, WA, Sound Physicians is a physician-founded and led, national, multi-specialty medical group made up of more than 1,000 business colleagues and 4,000 physicians, APPs, CRNAs, and nurses practicing in 400-plus hospitals across 45 states. Founded in 2001, and with specialties in emergency and hospital medicine, critical care, anesthesia, and telemedicine, Sound has a reputation for innovating and leading through an ever-changing healthcare landscape – with patients at the center of the universe.
Sound Physicians offers a competitive benefits package inclusive of the items below, and more:
- Medical insurance, Dental insurance, and Vision insurance
- Health care and dependent care flexible spending account
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with a company match
- Paid time off (PTO) begins accruing immediately upon start date at a rate of 15 days per year, in accordance with Sound’s PTO policy
- Ten company-paid holidays per year
About the role:
As a member of the BIA Team, the Power BI Architect drives Sound’s Microsoft Power BI platform technology projects, product development and analytics that bring meaningful value to Sound’s leadership, specialties and programs. This individual is responsible for supporting and driving the Power BI platform vision and roadmap utilizing the latest technology to include augmented analytics and the latest in AI capabilities. The Power BI Architect represents multiple stakeholders (clinical and business) across Sound, and is responsible for communicating clearly and concisely with all stakeholders in understanding their needs and developing insights to meet those needs.
Essential duties and responsibilities:
- Develop partnerships with business stakeholders and facilitate clear communication related to all aspects of ongoing technology initiatives under the scope of BIA, with a particular focus on Power BI.
- Understand stakeholder’s needs in developing business requirements in the BI context and design data models to convert raw data to meaningful insights.
- Create dashboards and visual interactive reports using Power BI which meet stakeholder needs, using augmented analytics capabilities to advance Sound’s BI strategy.
- Analyze data and present it through reports that can help in decision-making.
- Ability to convert business requirements into technical specifications to develop insights and/or pass to other team members for development of insights.
- Perform business analysis functions, including enlisting, documenting and prioritizing new insight requests to be developed on all Sound’s BI platforms, or via other automated reporting functionality within Sound.
- Align Microsoft Power BI development with Sound’s technology strategy to ensure integrated insights, functionality and consistent user experience across all platforms, leveraging the latest in Power BI capabilities (e.g., AI and augmented analytics).
- In development of Power BI platform and products, includes requesting security reviews, establishing monitor, alerting, and escalation processes, reviewing and socializing updates and releases, and managing an integration roadmap to ensure the BI technology ecosystem meets current and future needs of the organization.
- Apply the Agile development process, orchestrating the delivery of new features and products to end-users – in collaboration with other BI strategies, or independently on internally developed technology solutions.
- Project management including developing and maintaining project tracking capabilities to inform stakeholders of progress and status against key project milestones
- Fully engage with agile teams by writing clear stories, prioritization of the backlog and implementing ongoing improvements through retrospectives
- Create and maintain educational materials and documentation for BIA to support various user types.
- Accountable to adhere to all internal controls, and maintain documentation as required by Sound’s policies and procedures
- Customer oriented; develop relationships, anticipate and address the needs of all end-user groups effectively
- Ability to present technical or complex concepts to peers and senior management with clarity and brevity
- Actively collaborate across teams for on-time delivery of objectives
Special skills and abilities necessary to perform this job:
- Thorough knowledge and expertise in business intelligence, databases, and technical BI concepts. Exceptional knowledge of Power BI, particularly Power BI Premium with augmented analytics and the latest AI capabilities (e.g., ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot)
- Knowledge of healthcare industry
- Alignment with Sound’s mission, vision and core values
- Experience managing the entire project cycle from beginning to end
- Experience working with software development preferably in an Agile software development environment
- Proficiency with BI solutions, data manipulation tools, Microsoft Office Suite to include advanced Excel skills
- Excellent analytical and critical-thinking skills
- Ability to assess technical challenges, program solutions, and solve complex problems
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Project management and performance improvement experience or knowledge
- High sense of personal accountability and ability to drive progress autonomously
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Creative and persistent problem solver
- Client service oriented (both internal and external)
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize workload in a fast-paced environment
- Professional mannerisms and appearance
Education and Experience:
Education
Minimum: Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field is required.
Preferred: Master’s degree in relevant field is preferred.
Experience
Minimum: Three to five years of experience in a project/product management role, Power BI development, and healthcare preferred.
Preferred: Five to eight years of experience in a project/product management role related to Power BI plus business analyst exposure.
Other details:
- Indoor and/ or remote office environment
- Travel: Occasional (3-6 trips per year
- Sitting at desk for up to eight hours (w/breaks)
- Working on computer for up to eight hours (w/breaks)
Pay Range: $100k-$110k base, plus bonus eligible. Exact pay will be determined based on candidate experience, geographical location.
This job description reflects the present requirements of the position. As duties and responsibilities change and develop, the job description will be reviewed and subject to amendment.