Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Healthfirst is seeking a Strategic Data Analyst to support strategic initiatives through advanced data analysis and modeling. The role develops queries, reports, scoring methodologies, and algorithms; presents insights to stakeholders; and ensures the accuracy, quality, documentation, and scalability of analytical deliverables.
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 (subject to eligibility requirements)
- Dental coverage (subject to eligibility requirements)
- Vision coverage (subject to eligibility requirements)
- Incentive and recognition programs (subject to eligibility requirements)
- Life insurance (subject to eligibility requirements)
- 401k contributions (subject to eligibility requirements)
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