Senior Data and Systems Analyst

DHRM • Richmond, VA

19h • Onsite

About The Position

The Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services’ Facility Services Division is hiring a Senior Data and Systems Analyst. The division oversees the operation of 12 state hospitals and centers. The position supports systems analysis to improve access to reliable, valid, and timely data; works with division leadership to develop meaningful administrative and clinical metrics; creates automated Power BI reports; responds to ad hoc analytical requests; and serves as a data steward for relevant data domains within the agency’s data governance framework.

The role reports to the Director of Facility Data Analytics and Evaluation within the Facility Services Division. It is based at the Central Office. Telework opportunities may be available, subject to approval under the Commonwealth telework policy; availability, hours, and duration are not guaranteed.

Requirements

• Ability to find creative solutions to complex data problems.
• Experience with 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 experience 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 language easily understood by diverse audiences.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills and ability to interact professionally and establish rapport with a diverse group of stakeholders, partners, and staff.
• Ability to understand the language and requirements of business or program staff and 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 or evaluation analyst, data steward, or in another relevant field involving researching, collecting, cleaning, storing, analyzing, and reporting data, preferably in public or private healthcare.
• 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 access to reliable, valid, and timely data.
• Work with division leaders to develop and define operational and clinical metrics, and identify effective ways to use clinical and administrative data to operationalize and analyze those metrics.
• Lead development of Power BI analytical reports that can be kept current through automated 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 a data steward within the agency data governance framework for data domains under the Facility Services Division.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed