Data Analyst Senior

HealthPartners/GHI•Bloomington, MN

About The Position

HealthPartners is hiring Senior Data Analyst. Our mission is to provide simple and affordable healthcare. HealthPartners teams use data to improve patient and member experience, improve health, and reduce the per capita cost of health care. HealthPartners data analysts are responsible for driving adoption and use of data and analytic services and products. Data analysts work in collaborative scrum teams with developers, data scientists, and data engineers, and may share accountabilities in order to achieve sprint goals. They maintain a working knowledge of a business domain and its associated data, and provide visualization, analysis, validation, and consultation services. Together with their teams, they work on building scalable solutions to extract knowledge from data, and deliver that knowledge as needed and at scale.

Requirements

Candidates must have a degree in economics, mathematics, business, computer science, data or social science, operations research, statistics, or a related quantitative field. Alternate experience and education in equivalent areas is acceptable. Experience in more than one area is strongly preferred.
Four years direct experience using technical and analytical skills to extract, integrate, layout and interpret complex and disparate data sources
Demonstrated experience using data visualization tools such as Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, etc.
Demonstrated ability to tell stories using data
Solid working experience with SQL and relational database design
Programming skills using Python, R, etc. (“or similar”)
Demonstrated experience presenting findings and actionable recommendations
Must be motivated, self-driven, curious, and creative
Ability to communicate and demonstrate an ability to work with development teams, end users and business partners
Demonstrated ability to support and complement the work of a diverse development and / or operations team

Nice To Haves

Pharmacy data experience
Knowledge of health care operations
Exposure to agile/scrum (including tools like JIRA)
Experience using Azure Data Lake, DevOps, Power Automate, or other tools in the Azure Suite
Working knowledge of medical terminology, medical coding systems; ICD-10, CPT4, DRG, GPI.
Familiarity with software development, data and integration architecture

Responsibilities

Partners with domain experts, business groups, and data engineers to frame problems, model, clean and integrate data, and determine the best way to leverage that data in service of a goal
Works with business partners to understand and create their “user stories;” they support opportunities to leverage data analytics in service of customer or business value
Creates, deploys, monitors, and maintains highly interactive data visualizations
Participates in strategic measurement activities, including Return on Investment (ROI) analyses, Key Performance Indicator (KPI) development, risk assessment and indexing, as well as domain-specific measurements (example: readmission rates)
Works with their teams to ensure data accessibility, accuracy, and quality, and may act as data stewards by contributing to management of central data stores and metadata
May provide consultative, data-driven support on product and business strategy development
Sets up and executes test cases to validate that analytic and software solutions meet the business acceptance criteria
Communicates solution tradeoffs to business partners to frame and influence project decisions
Leverages internal and external sources to validate data accuracy and benchmark results
Promotes and champions our security and de-identification standards, while they handle sensitive administrative data (medical and pharmacy claims, clinical data, and other sensitive organizational data assets).