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 in a collaborative, mission-driven environment. The role involves gathering requirements, analyzing complex healthcare datasets, developing reports and visualizations, communicating findings to stakeholders, and supporting clients with analytical requests, data navigation, and training.
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
- 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
- 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
- Master's degree preferred, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- NYS Medicaid experience a plus
- Client-facing experience preferred, including supporting escalations through to resolution
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