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Facility:
West Campus (Chase): 303 E Republic Rd, Springfield, Missouri, United States of America, 65807
Department:
1676 Enterprise Data and Analytics
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
Hours:
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Work Shift:
Day Shift (United States of America)
CoxHealth is a leading healthcare system serving 25 counties across southwest Missouri and northern Arkansas. The organization includes six hospitals, 5 ERs, and over 80 clinics. CoxHealth has earned the following honors for workplace excellence:
- Named one of Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to work five times.
- Named one of America’s Greatest Workplaces, Greatest Workplaces in Healthcare (2025, 2026), Greatest Workplaces for Women (2023, 2024), and Greatest Workplaces for Diversity (2024) by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group.
- Acknowledged by Forbes as one of the Best Employers for New Grads.
- Healthcare Innovation's Top Companies to Work for in Healthcare (2025).
Benefits
- Medical, Vision, Dental, Retirement with Employer Match and more (20+ hrs/week)
- For a comprehensive list of benefits, please click here: Benefits | CoxHealth
Job Description:
This position is an integral part of the Enterprise Data & Analytics Team, actively collaborating on enterprise-wide and business unit-specific initiatives aimed at improving organizational efficiency. The Business Intelligence Developer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our enterprise-wide BI solutions. This includes, but is not limited to, the development of dashboards, cubes, interactive analytical reports, extracts, and other data visualization tools. The role involves assessing existing data sources and translating them into new BI solutions and tools. Additionally, the individual will oversee the implementation, development, and maintenance of reporting tools.
Education:
- Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Healthcare Administration, or a related field.
Experience:
- Required: Minimum of 4 years’ experience with data related to clinical, financial, or other enterprise domains OR Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Healthcare Administration, or a related field.
Skills:
- Able to communicate complex ideas effectively to a broader audience, including non-technical stakeholders.
- Independently conducts in-depth analyses, identifies underlying patterns, and proposes innovative solutions.
- Demonstrates a working knowledge of healthcare processes and how various roles interact within the system.
- Designs and implements advanced data visualizations that are intuitive and facilitate decision-making.
- Efficient in multiple programming languages, with a strong grasp of database management and optimization techniques.
- Proficient in leveraging complex functionalities of analytics tools and can mentor others in their use.
- Has an in-depth understanding of sophisticated application and database architectures, contributing to their design and improvement.
- Can design and optimize complex data models to support scalable analytics and reporting needs.
- For financial reporting: Prior experience with an Accounts Receivable (AR) system is preferred but not required.
- For clinical reporting: Prior experience with an Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system is preferred but not required.
- For supply chain/finance: Prior experience with an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is preferred but not required.
- For enterprise reporting: Prior experience with operational systems such as Press Ganey, UKG, Vizient, Microsoft Power BI, or Fabric is preferred but not required.
Licensure/Certification/Registration: N/A
Facility:
West Campus (Chase): 303 E Republic Rd, Springfield, Missouri, United States of America, 65807
Department:
1676 Enterprise Data and Analytics
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
Hours:
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Work Shift:
Day Shift (United States of America)
CoxHealth is a leading healthcare system serving 25 counties across southwest Missouri and northern Arkansas. The organization includes six hospitals, 5 ERs, and over 80 clinics. CoxHealth has earned the following honors for workplace excellence:
- Named one of Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to work five times.
- Named one of America’s Greatest Workplaces, Greatest Workplaces in Healthcare (2025, 2026), Greatest Workplaces for Women (2023, 2024), and Greatest Workplaces for Diversity (2024) by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group.
- Acknowledged by Forbes as one of the Best Employers for New Grads.
- Healthcare Innovation's Top Companies to Work for in Healthcare (2025).
Benefits
- Medical, Vision, Dental, Retirement with Employer Match and more (20+ hrs/week)
- For a comprehensive list of benefits, please click here: Benefits | CoxHealth
Job Description:
This position is an integral part of the Enterprise Data & Analytics Team, actively collaborating on enterprise-wide and business unit-specific initiatives aimed at improving organizational efficiency. The Business Intelligence Developer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our enterprise-wide BI solutions. This includes, but is not limited to, the development of dashboards, cubes, interactive analytical reports, extracts, and other data visualization tools. The role involves assessing existing data sources and translating them into new BI solutions and tools. Additionally, the individual will oversee the implementation, development, and maintenance of reporting tools.
Education:
- Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Healthcare Administration, or a related field.
Experience:
- Required: Minimum of 4 years’ experience with data related to clinical, financial, or other enterprise domains OR Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Healthcare Administration, or a related field.
Skills:
- Able to communicate complex ideas effectively to a broader audience, including non-technical stakeholders.
- Independently conducts in-depth analyses, identifies underlying patterns, and proposes innovative solutions.
- Demonstrates a working knowledge of healthcare processes and how various roles interact within the system.
- Designs and implements advanced data visualizations that are intuitive and facilitate decision-making.
- Efficient in multiple programming languages, with a strong grasp of database management and optimization techniques.
- Proficient in leveraging complex functionalities of analytics tools and can mentor others in their use.
- Has an in-depth understanding of sophisticated application and database architectures, contributing to their design and improvement.
- Can design and optimize complex data models to support scalable analytics and reporting needs.
- For financial reporting: Prior experience with an Accounts Receivable (AR) system is preferred but not required.
- For clinical reporting: Prior experience with an Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system is preferred but not required.
- For supply chain/finance: Prior experience with an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is preferred but not required.
- For enterprise reporting: Prior experience with operational systems such as Press Ganey, UKG, Vizient, Microsoft Power BI, or Fabric is preferred but not required.
Licensure/Certification/Registration: N/A
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- Technology & Software12
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- Healthcare & Medical Services3
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in lead business intelligence developer jobs.
- Five or more years of experience building BI solutions using SQL and a major visualization platform
- Proficiency with Tableau, Power BI, or Looker for enterprise-level dashboard development
- Experience designing and maintaining dimensional data models and data warehouses
- Hands-on work with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Redshift, or BigQuery
- Demonstrated ability to lead or mentor junior BI developers and analysts
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, information systems, or a related field
Tips for Your Lead Business Intelligence Developer Job Search
Tailor your resume to each stack
Lead BI developer postings vary widely between Tableau-heavy shops, Power BI environments, and cloud-native stacks like Snowflake or BigQuery. Mirror the exact tool names from each job description in your resume so your application clears automated screening for the right stack.
Quantify the scale of your data work
Hiring managers want to know whether you've built dashboards for ten users or ten thousand. Replace vague phrases like 'developed reporting solutions' with specifics: row counts, query performance improvements, or the number of business units your data models served.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists lead business intelligence developer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Show cross-functional leadership in your portfolio
Lead roles are evaluated heavily on your ability to translate business requirements into data solutions. Include examples where you partnered with finance, operations, or product teams, not just engineering, to demonstrate the stakeholder management hiring teams expect at this level.
Prepare a whiteboard-style data modeling exercise
Many lead BI interviews include a live schema design or ETL architecture question. Practice explaining your dimensional modeling decisions out loud, including why you chose a star schema over a snowflake schema for a given use case, since interviewers test your reasoning as much as your answer.
Negotiate scope alongside compensation
At the lead level, the team size you manage, the platforms you own, and your budget authority shape your day-to-day role as much as title does. Ask directly which projects you would inherit, what the current data infrastructure looks like, and what a successful first six months looks like before you accept.
Lead Business Intelligence Developer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most lead business intelligence developers?
Cornerstone Research, Emplify Health, and JPMorganChase are hiring the most lead business intelligence developers right now, with openings concentrated in Texas, Florida, and California, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is especially high in organizations undergoing cloud data migrations or building out self-service analytics programs.
How many lead business intelligence developer jobs are remote?
About 66% of lead business intelligence developer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting consistent demand for distributed BI talent. Roles focused on cloud-based platforms like Snowflake or Databricks and those tied to visualization tool administration tend to have the highest remote availability compared to on-premises data warehouse positions.
How do you become a lead business intelligence developer?
Start by building deep proficiency in SQL and at least one major visualization platform through hands-on projects or professional roles. Progress from analyst or junior developer positions into roles where you own end-to-end data model design. Develop experience in dimensional modeling, ETL pipeline management, and stakeholder communication. Taking on mentorship responsibilities or leading a small BI initiative signals readiness for a lead-level title to most hiring managers.
Can you get hired as a lead business intelligence developer without direct lead experience?
Yes, many companies will hire a strong senior BI developer into a lead role if you can demonstrate readiness through your existing work. Highlight projects where you independently designed a data model from requirements, presented insights to executive stakeholders, or informally guided junior teammates. A well-documented portfolio showing technical depth and cross-functional collaboration often carries more weight than a prior lead title.
What does the lead business intelligence developer interview process look like?
Most lead BI interviews include a recruiter screen, a technical assessment covering SQL and data modeling, and a panel interview with both engineering and business stakeholders. Expect at least one scenario-based question asking how you would prioritize a backlog of reporting requests or handle conflicting data definitions. Some companies add a live whiteboard exercise where you design a schema or troubleshoot a slow-running report under time pressure.
Where can I find and apply to lead business intelligence developer jobs?
You can find and apply to lead business intelligence developer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States in one place. Search the available roles, find the ones that match your experience and preferred stack, and apply directly to each listing that fits.
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