Director, Data & Decision Support

Epworth HealthCare is Victoria’s largest not-for-profit private health care group, renowned for excellence in diagnosis, treatment, care and rehabilitation. Epworth is an innovator in Australia’s health system, embracing the latest in evidence-based medicine to pioneer treatments and services for our patients. 

Our values and purpose define Epworth's approach and delivery. We pride ourselves on communicating and delivering them in a real and meaningful way. Every Patient Matters.

The Director, Data & Decision Support plays a pivotal role in executing Epworth’s 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:

1. Strategic Leadership: Champion the development of data-driven products, platforms, and solutions that support Epworth’s 2030 strategy and supporting predictive, prescriptive, and ML-enabled analytics.
2. Innovative: Explore opportunities to embed data driven decision making across the business, and leverage the full value of our data assets  
3. 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.
4. Team Leadership: Manage and mentor a small team, cultivating a high-performance culture focused on analytical excellence and continuous improvement.
5. 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.
6. Stakeholder Engagement: Represent Data & Analytics in Steering Committees, AI working groups, and governance forums, influencing organisational adoption of modern data capabilities at Epworth.
7. Communication & Influence: Translate complex technical concepts into clear, actionable insights for non-technical audiences and influence key stakeholders to drive successful outcomes.
8. Operational Insight: Identify challenges and emerging issues proactively, implement effective solutions, and continuously improve data-related processes.
9. Capability Uplift: Lead initiatives to enhance Epworth’s 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 Epworth’s data strategy and capability, ensuring the organisation remains competitive and forward-thinking in an increasingly data-driven world.

Position Description     Inherent Requirement

At Epworth, it’s a community

It’s the sense of belonging and being part of an organisation and a team that works to make sure that every patient matters. In addition to this, you will have access to:

• Salary package up to $15,900 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

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For more information, refer to the attached position description or contact [email protected] or phone (03) 9426 0606.

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.