Senior Healthcare Data Analyst

Sentara Hospitals • Virginia Beach, VA

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About The Position

The Senior Healthcare Data Analyst provides advanced data analysis and reporting support to drive operational, clinical, and strategic decision-making. This role is responsible for developing and maintaining dashboards, reports, and analytical solutions that monitor program performance and support business objectives. The analyst partners closely with stakeholders to define reporting requirements, perform ad-hoc analyses, and promote self-service analytics capabilities. This position supports key service lines such as Hospital Medicine, Stroke Regulatory Reporting, and Neurosciences, ensuring alignment of provider reporting and performance metrics across the portfolio. The role also contributes to data quality, data stewardship, and the identification of new metrics to enhance reporting accuracy and insights. As a subject matter expert, the Healthcare Data Analyst Senior leverages strong analytical and technical skills to provide data-driven recommendations, support regulatory reporting, and enable performance improvement across clinical and operational domains. This role also mentors junior analysts and collaborates with internal teams and external partners to deliver impactful analytics solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Data Analytics, Healthcare Administration, or a related field (Required)
• Strong proficiency in SQL for data extraction, transformation, and analysis
• Experience developing dashboards and reports using Power BI or similar visualization tools
• Experience in healthcare analytics, including clinical, operational, or regulatory reporting
• Ability to perform ad-hoc analysis, define business requirements, and deliver actionable insights
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to translate data into meaningful recommendations

Nice To Haves

• Relevant certifications in data analytics, SQL, or BI tools (Preferred)
• Experience working with Databricks or similar data platforms (Preferred)
• Experience supporting hospital medicine, stroke regulatory reporting, neurosciences, or related service lines
• Knowledge of healthcare data domains such as quality reporting, population health, or regulatory compliance
• Experience mentoring junior analysts and supporting analytics best practices

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining dashboards, reports, and analytical solutions
• Partnering with stakeholders to define reporting requirements
• Performing ad-hoc analyses
• Promoting self-service analytics capabilities
• Supporting key service lines such as Hospital Medicine, Stroke Regulatory Reporting, and Neurosciences
• Contributing to data quality and data stewardship
• Identifying new metrics to enhance reporting accuracy and insights
• Providing data-driven recommendations
• Supporting regulatory reporting
• Enabling performance improvement across clinical and operational domains
• Mentoring junior analysts
• Collaborating with internal teams and external partners to deliver impactful analytics solutions

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000
• Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
• Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
• Emergency Backup Care
• Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans
• Life Insurance
• 401k/403B with Employer Match
• Tuition Assistance – $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
• Student Debt Pay Down – $10,000
• Reimbursement for certifications and free access to complete CEUs and professional development
• Pet Insurance
• Legal Resources Plan
• Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees