Senior Data Analyst

Senior Data Analyst

As a Senior Data Analyst you will be in a unique position to assist a growing business proactively plan, react to new developments, and implement improvements across multiple departments. Your work will involve constructing and examining large, complex data sets to identify key drivers impacting operations performance, business success, client satisfaction, and medical costs. You will lead data sourcing and compilation efforts and investigate business problems in several functional areas, resulting in final analyses ready for leadership teams to utilize and deploy. You will seek to always improve data integrity and reporting accuracy by identifying and resolving root-cause issues. You will lead research into ambiguous problems and potentially seek new/external data sources or construct data sets to help solve key business issues. You will analyze and interpret data from various sources, identify appropriate measurement methodologies, design reports, and work with technical, operational, and payment teams to drive performance. Your analyses will be used to create viable, real – world solutions in a complex and evolving health care landscape.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Conduct research and analyses aimed at improving overall performance and data integrity
• Collaborate on strategic initiatives to develop analytics that guide business actions
• Gather and document requirements from the client/business while focused on process improvement, workflow, benchmarking and/or evaluation of business processes
• QA/analysis of large data sets used for reporting and QA/analysis of subsequent deliverables for self and team
• Quickly develop subject matter expertise in new topics to ensure analytics output is accurate and complies with business rules/requirements/requests
• Predict emerging business needs and develop innovative data-driven solutions to evaluate and manage them
• Work with data warehouses, databases, database structures, data on a daily basis

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Actuarial Science, Statistics, Business, Finance, Mathematics, Health Administration or related field
• Team-oriented, adaptable, accountable individual who can thrive in and contribute positively to a small, dynamic development team
• Proven problem-solving skills that generate demonstrable, meaningful, positive impacts; previous experience in analytics a plus
• Committed self-starter with proven ability to learn systems quickly and lead projects from concept to completion
• 3+ years of database/data warehouse or software development experience
• 3+ years Healthcare IT with strong understanding of industry
• Experienced in Agile/Scrum or similar system of prioritizing work on multiple complex assignments with iterative deliverables and contending deadlines
• Effective interpersonal, influence, collaboration and listening skills
• Demonstrated ability to communicate ideas clearly and concisely in writing and verbally to individuals and groups

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Math, Statistics, Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Actuarial Science, or a related field
• 7+ years working directly with healthcare claims data and/or claims adjudication systems/processes
• 7+ years of database/software development with superior command of SQL