Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Salient Health is seeking a Healthcare Data Analyst to join its growing analytics team. The role focuses on gathering requirements, analyzing complex healthcare datasets, interpreting trends, presenting findings, building reporting documentation, supporting client analytics requests, and improving processes and data quality.
Responsibilities
- Gather and document business requirements for analytical and reporting requests
- Plan and execute data analyses
- Interpret data, identify trends, outliers etc., and develop data stories from the results
- Present findings to stakeholders through summarized data and visualizations
- Build reporting templates and maintain data documentation (data dictionaries, About the Data documents) covering data definitions and nuances
- Assist in translating client data requirements into new implementations and system enhancements, contributing alongside cross-functional teams to design, develop, test, and deliver
- Support clients on analytical requests, data navigation, and user training
- Drive continuous improvement of processes, quality, and documentation, and carry out other duties as assigned
Skills
- B.S. in healthcare claims data/analysis, health informatics, health administration, public health, epidemiology, statistics, or related field
- Master's degree preferred, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- 2-4 years of professional data analysis experience with Medicaid, Medicare, or private insurance data
- Business analysis experience in requirements gathering for data and reporting projects
- Healthcare industry fundamentals: payer/provider landscape and plan types (Medicare, Medicaid, Managed Care, Commercial)
- Working knowledge of health plan operations: claims processing, membership and enrollment, provider, and benefits
- Familiarity with medical claims data and the claim lifecycle, including basic adjudication and 837/835 concepts (NYS Medicaid experience a plus)
- Exposure to health data formats such as enrollment, services, lab, and pharmacy
- Awareness of utilization management, care coordination, quality improvement programs, and population health
- SQL: 2-4 years writing and troubleshooting queries against claims and operational data
- Advanced Excel (pivot tables, lookups) and proficiency across the Microsoft Office Suite
- Data visualization and BI tools: building dashboards and summarized views, or a demonstrated ability to learn them quickly
- Trend detection and root-cause analysis; able to complete defined ad hoc analyses with guidance on scope
- Requirements gathering, process mapping, and clear documentation (business requirements, SOPs, analysis write-ups)
- Attention to data quality, integrity, and consistency, with exposure to data governance practices
- Professional verbal and written communication with clients, colleagues, and senior stakeholders
- Confident presentation delivery to groups, live or via video, with polished and audience-appropriate materials
- Translating complex data findings into plain-language business recommendations for non-technical audiences
- Building and delivering client-facing reports, learning guides, and training materials
- Stakeholder engagement: participating in client working sessions and iterative analytical processes, with the ability to grow into lead role
- Demonstrated problem solving: breaks ambiguous questions into testable steps and works them through to resolution
- Proven success working independently — self-directed, proactive, and accountable for deliverables without close supervision
- Proven success within a team — collaborates across analytics, operations, and client-facing groups on shared deliverables
- Intellectually curious: wants to understand why the data says what it says, not just report it
- Strong prioritization and time management in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities
- Resilient and adaptable, with eagerness to develop deep expertise in Salient Health's solutions
- Client-facing experience preferred, including supporting escalations through to resolution
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