Sr. Data Analyst

Job#: 3016793

Job Description:

Role: Sr. Healthcare Data Analyst

Length: 12+ month contract w/extension

Location: 100% Remote

Rate: $60/hr

Job Summary:

This individual contributor is primarily responsible for driving strategic data-informed decisions, gathering data and information on targeted variables in an established systematic fashion, preparing data for analytic efforts, and interpreting data analyses. This position executes creative data analytic approaches leading to actionable outcomes, develops, implements, and automates business and reporting solutions, and develops analytical and/or statistical models enabling informed business decisions.

The lead analytic consultant in Medicare/ACA risk adjustment will serve as an analytical resource to internal/external customers. This position functions both as a consultant and as a high-level data analyst, utilizing data mining tools, such as SQL or SAS, to extract, transform and analyze health care data (e.g., Clarity, CDW, Medicare) to provide data-driven insights to best address customer's needs. This position is also responsible for communicating results and methodologies to non-technical audiences.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Practices self-development and promotes learning in others by proactively providing information, resources, advice, and expertise with coworkers and customers; building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; influencing others through technical explanations and examples; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; providing feedback to others; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; supporting team collaboration; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.
• Completes work assignments and supports business-specific projects by applying expertise in subject area; supporting the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; ensuring team follows all procedures and policies; coordinating resources to accomplish priorities and deadlines; collaborating cross-functionally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating high priority issues or risks as appropriate; and recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities.
• Executes creative data analytic approaches leading to actionable outcomes by defining and calculating metrics to be analyzed; defining, calculating, and validating algorithms; and conducting analyses, including descriptive, correlational, inferential, and/or predictive statistics.
• Develops, implements, and automates business and reporting solutions by working with stakeholders in their design, planning, and implementation while ensuring consistency and coherency; evaluating and summarizing data and results; creating summary statistics; developing data reports, visualizations, and/or interactive Business Intelligence (BI) reports; reporting to stakeholders on key findings; identifying needs for the development and implementation of additional reporting solutions; and preparing documentation as appropriate.
• Interprets data analyses by applying findings to contextual settings; and developing insights, reports, and presentations telling a compelling story to stakeholders to enable and influence decision making; and providing context related to data interpretations and/or limitations as appropriate.
• Drives strategic data-informed decisions by consulting with clients to identify and clarify key business needs; developing outcomes and process measures; translating business requirements; determining data/information needs and data collection methods; developing analysis plans; measuring the impact of business decisions on clients, customers, and/or members; working with clients and staff to identify opportunities and methods to improve efficiencies with analysis; supporting and training end-users; and documenting processes and deliverables.
• Gathers data and information on targeted variables in an established systematic fashion by validating data sources; querying, merging, and extracting data across sources; completing routine data refresh and update; developing and/or delivering tools for electronic data collection; and providing user training, support, and documentation.
• Develops analytical and/or statistical models enabling informed business decisions by determining data and analytical requirements; creating models leading to actionable insights; and testing, refining, and validating models.
• Prepares data for analytic efforts by integrating and consolidating data; ensuring data quality and accuracy; profiling data inaccuracies and recommending process improvements or system changes to enhance overall quality of the data; and cleaning and creating final data set(s) for analysis.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Social/Physical/Life Science, Business, or related field and Minimum five (5) years experience in data analytics or a directly related field. Additional equivalent work experience in a directly related field may be substituted for the degree requirement.
• Three (3) years experience working with SQL.
• Two (2) years experience delivering presentations to management.
• One (1) year health care claims experience.
• One (1) year working with Medicare, Medicaid, or ACA data
• Three (3) years experience working with data extraction and manipulation language.
• Three (3) years experience working with data visualization tools.

Preferred (Nice to have) Qualifications:

• Risk Adjustment experience
• Master's degree in mathematics, statistics, public health, engineering, other sciences, business, or related fields.

Additional Requirements:

• Advanced coding skills in SQL and/or SAS (both preferred, 6 to 8 years' experience). Python/ Databricks / Data Science knowledge a plus.
• Basic knowledge of statistics (i.e., linear regressions)
• Background in Health care (6 years' experience). Medicare/ACA risk adjustment knowledge a plus.
• Strong presentation and storytelling with data skills
• Strong project management methodologies knowledge
• Strong business acumen communication skills
• Soft Skills: Accountable, self-motivated, team player, critical thinking skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, Engineering, Social/Physical/Life Science, Business, Public Health, Computer Science or related field and Minimum six (6) years' experience in data analytics or a directly related field.

Preferred Qualification:

• Master's degree in the subjects above
• 8 + years SQL/SAS coding experience
  • Data extraction and manipulation (i.e., write code from scratch, work with large data)
  • Advanced analytics/statistics
• 6 + years of Health Insurance experience
• Familiarity with health care coding (ICD-10, CPT/HCPCS, Revenue Codes, POS, etc...)

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