Healthcare Data Analyst

Position: Healthcare Data Analyst (Strong SQL)

Location: Remote

Employment: Contract

Job Description:

Healthcare Data Analyst with strong expertise in advanced SQL, data modeling, value‑based care analytics, AWS (Redshift/Athena/S3) and building stakeholder-ready dashboards and insights.

Responsibilities: -

• Design and develop advanced SQL queries, data models, and optimized analytics pipelines to support large-scale healthcare analytics workloads.
• Build dashboard-ready datasets and create insightful data visualizations and storytelling outputs for business and clinical stakeholders.
• Work extensively with healthcare claims and clinical datasets, ensuring accurate interpretation of medical economics, risk adjustment, quality metrics, and population health indicators.
• Support value‑based care programs, acting as an SME in internal and client discussions, and translating VBC requirements into measurable analytics deliverables.
• Develop and maintain custom tables, views, stored procedures, and performance‑tuned SQL logic, preferably in AWS Redshift.
• Build scalable data solutions using AWS services such as Redshift, Athena, S3, and integrate analytics workflows with Amazon Quick Sight dashboards.
• Handle ad hoc analytics requests, delivering precise and actionable insights for healthcare customers with tight turnaround times.
• Partner with cross‑functional teams and directly engage clients to understand business needs, refine requirements, and present analytics findings clearly to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate on projects using agile tools like Jira and Confluence, ensuring proper documentation, sprint planning, and delivery tracking.

Mandatory skills

• Advanced SQL & Data Modeling – Proven ability to design robust data models, write complex SQL, and build performant analytics pipelines.
• Data Visualization & Storytelling – Ability to translate complex healthcare data into actionable insights using dashboards and stakeholder-ready visualizations.
• Healthcare Analytics & Value-Based Care Expertise – Strong hands-on experience with claims and clinical data, value-based care metrics, and healthcare quality measures.

Healthcare Data Experience

• 5+ years of hands-on experience working with healthcare data
• Deep expertise in claims and/or clinical data
• Strong understanding of medical economics, risk adjustment, quality measures, and population health analytics

Value-Based Care

• Minimum 2+ years of experience supporting value-based care use cases
• Ability to act as a Value-Based Care SME in internal and client-facing discussions

Client & Stakeholder Engagement

• Comfortable engaging directly with healthcare customers
• Strong ability to translate business and value-based goals into actionable analytics deliverables
• Experience presenting insights clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders