Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pulselight is transforming how State and Federal Health & Human Services agencies use data to improve program integrity, strengthen oversight, and improve health outcomes. The Healthcare Data Analyst-Data Researcher will define and validate healthcare analytics concepts, build and test data logic, produce validation analyses, and create clear requirements for product, engineering, BI, and AI teams.
Responsibilities
- Translate clinical and operational concepts into data definitions
- Validate those definitions using real-world data and ensure they’re generalizable, defensible and repeatable
- Build and test logic for identifying cohorts, treatment settings, services, provider types and more in data
- Deliver validation artifacts and analysis that help justify business logic to internal and external customers
- Write clear, structured requirements for BI engineers to implement the logic in new product features, delivering well-reasoned definitions for key domains (e.g., “residential treatment”, “psychotropic drugs”, “episode of care”)
- Build logic to support R&D or prototype functions
- Be the go-to expert on how our healthcare data maps to real-world use
- Support product / user analytics needs
Skills
- Must be legally authorized to work in the US without employer sponsorship
- 5+ years of experience as a data analyst, healthcare researcher, or informaticist
- Deep familiarity with Medicaid or Medicare data including enrollment, eligibility, claims/encounter structures and code sets
- Strong grasp of healthcare delivery models who can speak the language of both policy and data
- Can read program manuals, state guidance, or clinical documents and translate them into data logic
- Comfortable with SQL and Excel for data validation and exploration
- Self-starter with strong judgment; comfortable filling in gaps and proposing next steps
- Can quickly get oriented in new data and drive toward a clear output
- Love untangling ambiguity and making things clear for technical teams
- Have excellent documentation and communication skills
- Enjoy collaborating with product, engineering, and client-facing teams
- Experience with Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) or Program Integrity use cases
- Familiarity with data quality challenges in healthcare or state Medicaid systems
- Comfort working on fast-paced teams where processes are evolving
- Exposure to BI tools like Tableau, Power BI, or Looker
Benefits
- 100% Remote
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Company-paid life insurance
- Company-paid disability insurance
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Vacation travel stipend
- Generous PTO plan
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