Data Analyst - Quality Department - Flexible Location
Role summary
The Data Analyst role is a cross-functional position focused on translating business, clinical, compliance, and financial questions into actionable data requirements and analytical outputs. This role is crucial for enhancing reporting accuracy, reducing rework, and supporting informed decision-making by ensuring data consistency, trust, and alignment with business objectives. The Data Analyst will define and govern key organizational metrics, establish calculation logic, and support both recurring and ad hoc reporting. They will also collaborate with IT and data engineering teams, serve as a central point for data-related inquiries, and educate stakeholders on data usage. The position requires strong SQL skills, experience with reporting tools like Power BI, and the ability to communicate technical concepts effectively.
The pay for this position is between $90,000 and $105,000 annually.
Data Analyst
Position Overview
The Data Analyst is a cross functional role responsible for translating organizational, clinical, compliance, and financial questions into clearly defined data requirements and usable analytical outputs. This role sits at the intersection of Quality, Finance, Operations, Clinical Leadership, and IT and ensures that data is consistent, trusted, well documented, and aligned with business intent.
This position is foundational to improving reporting accuracy, reducing rework, strengthening compliance confidence, and enabling leadership to make informed decisions based on shared, well understood metrics.
The Data Analyst does not replace data engineering or reporting development functions. Instead, this role ensures that what is built is the right thing, built with shared definitions, and validated before it is relied upon.
Core Responsibilities
Business and Compliance Translation
- Work closely with leadership to define compliance measures, outcome metrics, and reporting requirements
- Translate regulatory, contractual, QI and program level requirements into clear, structured data specifications
- Partner with Finance to ensure measures reconcile to source systems and align with financial reporting standards
- Collaborates with Quality and Clinical leadership to identify and synthesize data and data trends into actionable operational frameworks
- Works in collaboration with quality and training team members as a translator between non-technical stakeholders and technical teams
Data Definition and Governance
- Own and maintain shared definitions for key organizational metrics
- Establish and document calculation logic, assumptions, exclusions, and limitations
- Ensure consistent interpretation of metrics across departments and reports
- Support the development of basic data governance practices, including documentation and validation standards
Reporting and Analysis Support
- Support recurring operational, compliance, and leadership reporting
- Conduct ad hoc analysis to answer emerging business and program questions
- Validate data outputs prior to distribution to ensure accuracy and intent alignment
- Identify data quality issues and work with IT and source system owners to resolve them
Collaboration and Enablement
- Serve as a central point of contact for data related questions across the organization
- Collaborate with data engineering and IT teams to ensure analytical readiness
- Improve intake processes for data requests to reduce ambiguity and rework
- Educate stakeholders on data availability, limitations, and appropriate use
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s, preferably Master's degree in data analytics, information systems, statistics, public health, or related field
- Demonstrated experience working with complex, multi-source datasets
- Strong SQL skills and experience querying relational databases
- Extensive experience with reporting and visualization tools such as Power BI
- Strong ability to communicate technical concepts in clear, plain language
- Experience in healthcare, behavioral health, human services, or regulated environments preferred
- Experience working in matrixed or cross functional environments
- Exposure to data governance or data quality frameworks
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting compliance or regulatory reporting
- Familiarity with EMR or EHR systems and healthcare data structures