Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Healthfirst is seeking a Strategic Data Analyst to support strategic business initiatives through advanced data analysis and modeling. The role develops data models, scoring methodologies, algorithms, queries, and reports while presenting insights and recommendations to leadership and enterprise stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Operate with intellectual curiosity and critically assess existing processes and procedures to identify opportunities for improvement
- Develop complex analyses requiring the integration of multiple data sources, evaluation of data quality, and standardization of data to consistent format/structure
- Create advanced queries and reports that extract data to support business teams’ needs, including working with nesting tables and temp tables and writing multiple conditions against varying data sets)
- Summarize and present data outcomes, recommendations, and methodology to analytics leadership, department leadership, and enterprise stakeholders
- Learn, adopt and leverage leading analytical tools and technologies to further the maturity of departmental analytics at-large
- Hold oneself accountable for the accuracy, completeness, quality, and relevance of deliverables in order to own responsibility for work product and consider these factors in the end-to-end analytical process, from data gathering to analysis to formatting and presentation
- Employ best practices in documentation, coding style and comments to facilitate persistence, reusability, and scalability of your solutions
- Document and escalate data issues as appropriate
- Exhibit collaborative attitude, willingness to work with others on data projects that included working team(s) made of cross departmental/interdisciplinary users
- Additional duties as assigned
Skills
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution or equivalent relevant work experience
- Working experience exhibiting strong critical thinking and analytical skills
- Advanced MS Excel skills that include creating pivot tables, macros, utilizing v/h lookups and VBA
- Familiarity with writing SQL (and/or SAS) queries for analyzing data and establishing business rules and requirements
- Familiarity with relational database structures, theories, principles, and practices
- Familiarity with data models and/or data modelling
- Understanding of the data lifecycle within the organization and its impact on the business
- Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
- Experience communicating effectively verbally and in writing while demonstrating good grammar, spelling, and punctuation skills
- Work experience requiring meticulous attention to detail
- Degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Sciences, Engineering, Business Analytics, Informatics, or similar concentration
- Experience working with SQL in a professional environment
- Experience with Alteryx, Tableau, Amazon Redshift, QlikView, or other similar tools/platforms
- Familiarity with statistical principles, such as standard deviations, normal distributions, and regressions
- Familiarity with Python and/or R
- Familiarity with healthcare data
- Balances working independently with an understanding of when to escalate with questions/issues
- Ability to work effectively with both business and technical stakeholders
Benefits
- Medical coverage (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)
- Dental coverage (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)
- Vision coverage (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)
- Incentive programs (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)
- Recognition programs (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)
- Life insurance (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)
- 401k contributions (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)
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