Senior Healthcare Data Analyst

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Physical Location: Virginia Beach, VA
Location Type: Remote
Employment Status: Regular-Full time
Shift: Multiple Shifts Available
Posted Date: April 2, 2026

## Job Overview

### Overview

The Senior Healthcare Data Analyst provides advanced data analysis and reporting support to drive operational, clinical, and strategic decision-making.

This role is responsible for developing and maintaining dashboards, reports, and analytical solutions that monitor program performance and support business objectives.

The analyst partners closely with stakeholders to define reporting requirements, perform ad-hoc analyses, and promote self-service analytics capabilities.

This position supports key service lines such as Hospital Medicine, Stroke Regulatory Reporting, and Neurosciences, ensuring alignment of provider reporting and performance metrics across the portfolio.

The role also contributes to data quality, data stewardship, and the identification of new metrics to enhance reporting accuracy and insights.

As a subject matter expert, the Healthcare Data Analyst Senior leverages strong analytical and technical skills to provide data-driven recommendations, support regulatory reporting, and enable performance improvement across clinical and operational domains.

This role also mentors junior analysts and collaborates with internal teams and external partners to deliver impactful analytics solutions.

### Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Data Analytics, Healthcare Administration, or a related field (Required)

### Certification/Licensure

• No specific certification or licensure requirements
• Relevant certifications in data analytics, SQL, or BI tools (Preferred)

### Experience

• Strong proficiency in SQL for data extraction, transformation, and analysis
• Experience developing dashboards and reports using Power BI or similar visualization tools
• Experience working with Databricks or similar data platforms (Preferred)
• Experience in healthcare analytics, including clinical, operational, or regulatory reporting
• Ability to perform ad-hoc analysis, define business requirements, and deliver actionable insights
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to translate data into meaningful recommendations

### Additional Qualifications (Preferred)

• Experience supporting hospital medicine, stroke regulatory reporting, neurosciences, or related service lines
• Knowledge of healthcare data domains such as quality reporting, population health, or regulatory compliance
• Experience mentoring junior analysts and supporting analytics best practices

## About Us

Sentara Health, an integrated, not-for-profit health care delivery system, celebrates more than 135 years in pursuit of its mission – “we improve health every day.” Sentara is one of the largest health systems in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic and Southeast, and among the top 20 largest not-for-profit integrated health systems in the country, with 34,000 employees, 12 hospitals in Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina including 10 hospitals with the prestigious Magnet® recognition, and the Sentara Health Plans division which serves more than 1 million members in Virginia and Florida. Sentara is recognized nationally for clinical quality and safety, and is strategically focused on innovation and creating an extraordinary health care experience for our patients and members. Sentara was named a Health Quality Innovator of the Year (2024), was recognized by Forbes as “America’s Best-In-State Employer” (2024), “Best Employer for Veterans” (2022, 2023), and “Best Employer for Women” (2020), and named to IBM Watson Health’s “Top 15 Health Systems” (2021, 2018).

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