Senior Data and Systems Analyst
About The Position
The Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services’ Facility Services Division is seeking a Senior Data and Systems Analyst to support the division’s access to reliable, valid, and timely data. The division oversees the operation of 12 state hospitals and centers. The position reports to the Director of Facility Data Analytics and Evaluation within the Facility Services Division. The analyst supports systems analysis of source systems and the Enterprise Data Warehouse; collaborates with division leadership to develop and define administrative, operational, and clinical metrics; and identifies ways to use clinical and administrative data to operationalize and analyze those metrics. The role leads development of automated Power BI analytical reports, responds to ad hoc analysis and reporting requests, and serves as a data steward for relevant data domains within the agency’s data governance framework.
Requirements
- Ability to find creative solutions to complex data problems.
- Experience in Power BI and/or Tableau.
- Skill using Microsoft Office Suite, including Teams, SharePoint, CoPilot, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
- Knowledge and skill in data analytics, statistics, and informatics.
- Experience developing, defining, and operationalizing program or business outcome measures.
- Experience extracting data from large and diverse databases and data lakes or warehouses to meet stakeholder needs, including writing SQL and/or Python code.
- Ability to use an Enterprise Data Lake or Warehouse to develop dashboards and data visualizations.
- Knowledge of business data collection, analysis, and reporting applications and technology.
- Ability to synthesize and translate complex data analysis into easily understood language for diverse audiences.
- Strong interpersonal communication skills and ability to interact professionally and establish rapport with diverse stakeholders, partners, and staff.
- Ability to understand the language and requirements of business or program staff as well as IT or data staff, and translate information between those groups.
- Knowledge of state, federal, agency, and/or other regulatory agencies, laws, and standards.
Nice To Haves
- Experience as a data analyst, systems analyst, research/evaluation analyst, data steward, or in another relevant field involving researching, collecting, cleaning, storing, analyzing, and reporting data; healthcare experience is preferable.
- Knowledge of healthcare operations and the behavioral health field.
- Ability to write queries and extract data in a Snowflake environment.
- Experience conducting scholarly research and/or designing and implementing evaluation models.
- Knowledge of applied descriptive and inferential statistics.
- Knowledge of at least one statistics package: SPSS, STATA, SAS, and/or R.
Responsibilities
- Support systems analysis of source systems and the Enterprise Data Warehouse to improve the division’s access to reliable, valid, and timely data.
- Work with division leaders to develop and define operational and clinical metrics and use clinical and administrative data to operationalize and analyze them.
- Lead development of Power BI analytical reports that can be kept current through automation programming.
- Respond to ad hoc analysis and reporting requests from division and agency leadership as assigned by the Director of Facility Data Analytics and Evaluation.
- Serve as data steward within the agency data governance framework for data domains under the Facility Services Division.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
