Data Analyst SAS EG

Mastech Company Limited - Oakland, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Oakland, CA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Data Analyst SAS EG position at Mastech involves leading high visibility projects within the IT Services domain, focusing on data analysis and statistical modeling. The role requires significant experience in SAS programming and analytical consulting, with responsibilities that include developing reports, maintaining data integrity, and collaborating with senior management to drive strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Leads, makes significant contributions, and/or provides technical leadership to high visibility projects to identify and resolve issues of strategic importance to the organization.
• Interfaces regularly with senior management to produce timely and valuable results.
• Directs the development of outcomes and process measures, including technical specifications, to enable population measurement, guideline implementation, and evaluation.
• Builds and maintains complex statistical routines using macros, vendor software, and software written by self and others.
• Tests and maintains data integrity across multiple databases and applications.
• Builds sophisticated statistical models and forecasting tools using these databases.
• Designs and enhances databases.
• Designs menu systems that are effective and user-friendly.
• Develops reports with accurate, easy to read, useful information that satisfies the client's needs.
• Designs and generates tracking and monitoring tools.
• Designs research plans for data gathering and analysis; participates significantly in interpreting analyses and developing action plans accordingly.
• Defines and frames complex multi-dimensional healthcare issues and develops time tables/processes for decision making.
• Translates needs, issues, and ideas into effective strategies and action plans.
• Formulates specific implementation plans and evaluates the effectiveness of actions/programs implemented.
• Develops creative alternative solutions.
• Sets the strategic direction of projects.
• Determines goals and priorities with team, clients, or project management sponsors (when appropriate).
• May coordinate team/project activities and schedules.
• May establish team membership and project participants, provide leadership to multi-disciplinary project teams, as well as manage work of outside consultants when used.

Requirements

• Exceptional analytic and critical thinking skills, writing skills, communication skills, consulting skills, and ability to work within a team.
• Ability to express complex analytical and technical information to senior management or to audiences with clinical training.
• Master’s degree in economics, finance, health care administration, public health administration, statistics, mathematics, operations research, or related field required, or equivalent Bachelor’s degree and work experience in lieu of a Master’s degree.
• Five or more years programming in SAS, SQL, VBA, .net or equivalent statistical analytical programming language.
• Experience with analytical manipulation and interpretation of large databases required.
• Typically five or more years of related analytical consulting experience.
• Microsoft Office skills required.
• Proven leadership in consulting and, for some areas, project management.
• Must exhibit efficiency, collaboration, and candor, openness, and results orientation.
• Experience with the Epic Clarity database (highly preferred but not required).
• 1 year of experience with SAS EG including the SAS BI applications, development and deployment of web reports and cubes.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with the Epic Clarity database (highly preferred but not required).

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Opportunities for growth
• Exciting challenges