Sr. Healthcare Data Analyst

General Dynamics Information Technology

13h • $106,250 - $143,750 • Remote

About The Position

The work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). You will be trusted to lead project teams through analyses and tool development to detect and prevent fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) in the Medicare programs. In this role you will: Manage analytics and machine learning projects from kick-off to completion, ensuring their analytic rigor and include actionable results to detect and deter FWA Guide junior team members in the completion of technical tasks while remaining hands on to analyze claims data and conduct advanced statistical analyses when needed Use predictive modeling to increase and optimize efficiencies, process improvements, and other business outcomes Partner with subject matter experts to deliver quality, actionable findings Present complex analytics and insights in a comprehensible manner to a range of audiences (technical/non-technical) and to various levels of leadership Identify opportunities for leveraging Medicare and Medicaid data to drive insightful FWA solutions Advocate for and help implement best practices in data management and analytics to drive continuous improvement Effectively communicate with team members while working remotely Perform additional duties as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science degree with an analytical or technical focus (i.e., Statistics, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics) or related area
• Minimum of 5+ years of experience conducting advanced analyses utilizing healthcare claims data for the use of fraud detection, including at least 2 years managing team-based analytics projects
• Ability to understand, simplify and explain data in business terms to technical and non-technical audiences
• Proficiency in SQL and Python, with familiarity with R or Python for data science (including machine learning)
• Familiarity with Databricks and/or Snowflake

Nice To Haves

• Strong relationship building skills with both internal and external stakeholders
• Customer service oriented and solutions focused attitude
• Sound analytical, problem solving, and qualitative skills

Responsibilities

• Manage analytics and machine learning projects from kick-off to completion, ensuring their analytic rigor and include actionable results to detect and deter FWA
• Guide junior team members in the completion of technical tasks while remaining hands on to analyze claims data and conduct advanced statistical analyses when needed
• Use predictive modeling to increase and optimize efficiencies, process improvements, and other business outcomes
• Partner with subject matter experts to deliver quality, actionable findings
• Present complex analytics and insights in a comprehensible manner to a range of audiences (technical/non-technical) and to various levels of leadership
• Identify opportunities for leveraging Medicare and Medicaid data to drive insightful FWA solutions
• Advocate for and help implement best practices in data management and analytics to drive continuous improvement
• Effectively communicate with team members while working remotely
• Perform additional duties as assigned

Benefits

• Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
• To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
• GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire.
• The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
• To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.
• We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

What This Job Offers

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