Senior Healthcare Data Analyst
About The Position
This position will support Sentara Enterprise Analytics with internal, system-wide retrospective research on medical practice and operations. The Senior Healthcare Data Analyst provides advanced analytics support by developing reports and interactive dashboards to monitor program and operational performance across an integrated health system (payer, ambulatory, acute & post-acute, and support functions). This role promotes self-service analytics , translates business questions into analytic requirements, and delivers data-driven insights and recommendations to leaders and provider partners. Responsibilities include designing programmatic analyses, performing ad-hoc deep dives, and supporting data quality and stewardship to maintain accuracy and introduce meaningful new metrics. As a subject-matter expert, the senior analyst also onboards and mentors junior analysts and partners closely with internal customers and external providers. Typical domain areas may include: medical expense trends; quality (HEDIS, interventions, STAR ratings); clinical gaps and adherence; network/value-based measures; regulatory reporting; employer/client reporting; population health; risk and member/patient stratification; predictive analytics; operations and clinical performance reporting; benchmarking; and research analytics.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in data/analytics, Statistics, Computer Science, Public Health, Healthcare Administration, or related field
- 5+ years of analytics experience, including substantial work in healthcare (payer or provider)
- Proficiency in SQL for data extraction/transformations and Tableau (or comparable BI tool) for dashboard/report development
- Demonstrated ability to translate business needs into analytic requirements , define metrics, and deliver clear insights and recommendations
- Experience with quality and regulatory measures (e.g. HEDIS, STARs) and/or population health, risk stratification, cost/utilization analyses
- Strong data quality/stewardship mindset; builds validation checks and documentation to ensure accuracy and reproducibility
- Excellent consultative, communication, and storytelling skills with the ability to influence non-technical stakeholders
- Experience mentoring or guiding junior analysts and contributing to team standards, best practices, and knowledge sharing
Nice To Haves
- Master’s Degree in a related field
- Tableau/Power BI certification; healthcare analytics/coding quality certifications
- Knowledge of research methods and experience with study design, biostatistics, and synthesizing findings for diverse audiences
- Work experience in areas of population health, public health, epidemiology, and/or statistics; and/or experience analyzing large retrospective relational databases fed by electronic health records is desired.
Responsibilities
- developing reports and interactive dashboards to monitor program and operational performance
- promoting self-service analytics
- translating business questions into analytic requirements
- delivering data-driven insights and recommendations to leaders and provider partners
- designing programmatic analyses
- performing ad-hoc deep dives
- supporting data quality and stewardship to maintain accuracy and introduce meaningful new metrics
- onboarding and mentoring junior analysts
- partnering closely with internal customers and external providers
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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
