Strategic Data Analyst I, Health Data Integration & Analytics

Full-timeExempt

Pay Range: $64,915 - $103,415

Note: Individuals typically begin between the minimum to middle of the pay range

The Strategic Data Analyst is responsible for working with assigned HMSA's business units to facilitate their acquisition of relevant and actionable information to support enterprise and business unit goals, strategies, objectives, and operational needs. See Addendum for specific assigned business areas/units.

This is realized by:

• Understanding and aligning enterprise and business unit goals, strategies, objectives, and operational needs of business unit(s) and facilitating the identification and creation of supportive, high-value, and actionable information and analytics .

• Developing comprehensive and coherent sets of data and analytic (D&A) requirements.

• Preparing and presenting relevant and actionable information in an easy-to-understand manner that is visually appealing.

• Gathering and synthesizing information across multiple sources to derive meaningful insights that support the achievement of strategic and operational objectives.

• Facilitating seamless communication between business units, IT, and D&A teams to ensure shared understanding and high-quality data and analytic work products.

• Collaborating with internal and external departments and teams.

This position is responsible for translating business needs into D&A solutions. It requires the ability to think strategically and cultivate relationships and collaborations across HMSA departments and with business and clinical partners.

• Bachelor's degree and four or more years of work experience; or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

• Demonstrated experience managing D&A initiatives.

• Experience working in a collaborative team environment.

• Experience with writing reports and documenting business and analytics requirements.

• Technical requirements writing experience.

• Health care industry knowledge.

• Statistical analysis knowledge.

• Demonstrated knowledge in identifying issues, collecting data, and analyzing and interpreting information.

• Experience in communicating audience-appropriate information and ideas efficaciously with clarity and precision.

• Effective verbal and written communication skills

• Experience in effectively presenting information in formal and informal presentation settings.

• Basic working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications including but not limited to Word and Outlook/Email.

• Intermediate working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications including but not limited to PowerPoint.

• Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications included but not limited to Excel.

• Experience with SQL

• Strategic Data Analytics and Project Management

• Understands and aligns enterprise and business unit goals, strategies, and objectives. Works with leadership to identify and prioritize D&A solutions which support goals, strategies, and objectives.

• Implements and oversees a Scope Management process that identifies, defines, and controls initiatives' deliverables and benefits.

• Works with business unit, IT, and D&A staff to develop and prioritize D&A business requirements for analytic reports, dashboards, and data cubes and marts.

• Works closely with business units, IT, and D&A teams to ensure that D&A requirements are adjusted as initiatives evolve and the final D&A solution meets defined requirements.

• Develops and maintains project scope, plans, timelines, risks, and issues documents.

• Develops strategies, objectives, and tactics to support enterprise and business unit goals while factoring in resource and other constraints, and HMSA values.

• Monitors and takes appropriate action to ensure that deliverables are accomplished in an accurate, high-quality, and timely manner.

• Cross-Functional Integration and Communication

• Interacts with corporate and business unit leadership to identify and align D&A activities across business units.

• Acts as a conduit to bridge the knowledge and understanding gaps among business units, IT, and D&A teams.

• Facilitates the creation and operationalization of Stakeholder Communication Plans that describe how important information, such as project status, gets communicated to internal and external stakeholders.

• Excellent communication skills using methods such as: extemporaneous verbal discussions; status reports; written analysis, assessments, and recommendations; oral and video presentations; email messages; and program documentation repositories.

• Identifies and appropriately escalates issues, risks, and concerns.

• Represents the Health Data Integration & Analytics department in interactions with both internal and external parties.

• Research and Data analysis

• Provides high quality, objective, and professional analysis of relevant topics.

• Gathers and analyzes information to identify trends, issues, innovations, and potential problems and solutions for priority business needs.

• Develops design analysis frameworks

• Prepares reports

• Presents results with recommendations

• Implements solutions

• Identifies, analyzes, interprets, and summarizes important trends and patterns in complex data sets.

• Supports business unit reporting.

• Runs ad hoc analyses for business unit(s).

• Provides business insight to other internal departments when working on cross-functional initiatives.

• Performs advanced analytics incorporating techniques like advanced statistics, ML, predictive modeling, and cohort matching.

• On a regular, sustained basis, cooperates with other staff members both within and outside the department in accomplishing one's own job duties as well as assisting others in accomplishing theirs.

• Performs all other miscellaneous responsibilities and duties as assigned or directed