Lead Data Analyst

Job#: 3038998

Job Description:
Lead Data Analyst

Location: Woodlawn, Maryland (Partial Remote)

Role Overview

We are seeking a Lead Data Analyst to join a team of qualified, diverse professionals. The ideal candidate will lead critical data analysis activities supporting large-scale migration efforts. This role is key in ensuring data integrity and accuracy throughout the migration lifecycle, providing analytical oversight, validation expertise, and comprehensive support to major modernization initiatives for a federal healthcare customer.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading data analysis activities for migration planning, including source-to-target data mapping, data profiling, and gap analysis between legacy systems and the Facets platform.
• Defining data quality metrics, establishing reconciliation criteria, and validating migration results against business and technical requirements.
• Conducting detailed data assessments to identify inconsistencies, anomalies, and data-related risks across multiple legacy environments.
• Developing and maintaining data mapping specifications, profiling reports, data dictionaries, lineage documentation, and other artifacts required to support the Data Migration Plan.
• Ensuring data integrity throughout the migration lifecycle by collaborating closely with data architects, ETL/ELT developers, business analysts, test teams, and system integrators.
• Providing analytical support for the Data Migration Plan, including dependency analysis, sequencing recommendations, and acceptance criteria definition.
• Leading stakeholder working sessions to refine data requirements, address data issues, and support business rules interpretation.
• Supporting test planning through the creation of data validation rules, test scenarios, defect research, and reconciliation processes.
• Monitoring migration execution results, performing reconciliation activities, and coordinating issue triage and resolution.
• Ensuring adherence to data governance, security, privacy, and quality standards consistent with enterprise and project policies.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

Required Qualifications

Education & Experience:

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in data analysis, data profiling, or data management in large, complex enterprise environments with a BS/BA degree.
• Alternatively, a minimum of 6 years of experience with an MS/MA degree, or a minimum of 3 years with a PhD.
• Demonstrated experience supporting large-scale data migration, legacy modernization, or COTS platform integration initiatives.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

Technical Skills:

• Proficiency with SQL for data discovery, validation, and reconciliation.
• Experience developing data quality rules, reconciliation approaches, and validation criteria.
• A strong understanding of data models, metadata, data lineage, and the impacts of ETL/ELT transformations.
• Experience producing data migration documentation such as mapping specifications, profiling reports, and validation results.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with healthcare payer platforms, especially Facets.
• Experience with cloud data platforms or data integration tools within AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform environments.
• Knowledge of enterprise data governance tools (e.g., Collibra, Informatica, Alation).
• Experience supporting structured SDLC, Agile, or hybrid project delivery methodologies.
• Familiarity with federal healthcare programs, specific federal agency environments, or regulatory requirements such as HIPAA.
• Relevant data or analytics certifications.
• Active or prior Public Trust or other security clearance.

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