Senior Analytic Data Analyst

Highmark Health - Lincoln, NE

Full-time - Mid Level

Lincoln, NE

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About the position

The Senior Analytic Data Analyst at Highmark Health plays a crucial role in understanding and analyzing healthcare data from end-to-end. This position involves working with both raw and analytic data for the enterprise, ensuring that data is cleansed, validated, audited, and compared across various sources. The incumbent will collaborate with engineering and business teams to gather requirements and ensure that the outcomes align with business processes and industry standards. The role requires delivering data profiling, conducting testing, and validating systems to troubleshoot any data anomalies that may arise. Additionally, the analyst will monitor data management metrics and oversee data loads to ensure quality and accuracy. In this position, the Senior Analytic Data Analyst will work closely with data quality teams to ensure that the business alignment and analytic value of derived data are met. The role also includes providing guidance and education to Associate and Intermediate staff, fostering a collaborative environment. Customer relationship management is a key responsibility, as the analyst will manage relationships with stakeholders and ensure that their needs are met through effective data analysis and reporting. The position requires a strong educational background, with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Systems Analysis, Data Processing, Healthcare Informatics, Management Information Systems, or a closely related discipline. A Master's Degree in Management Information Systems or Healthcare Informatics is preferred. The candidate should have 5 to 7 years of experience in business analysis, data analytics, or the healthcare industry, with a preference for those with data warehousing experience. Skills in SQL, SAS, Microsoft Office, problem-solving, communication, requirements analysis, and testing are essential for success in this role.

Responsibilities

• Verify analytic data for the enterprise by conducting end-to-end analysis of data, including cleansing, validating, auditing, and comparing data from various sources.
• Confirm the accuracy of new data sources used by the analytic entities of the enterprise, including testing of source data and interconnections to internal sources.
• Routinely monitor data sources used for analytics to ensure continued updates meet quality standards.
• Drive functional efforts for programs across specific projects, including guidance and education of Intermediate and Associate individual contributors.
• Manage relationships with customers on the function or domain of analytics.
• Solicit requirements from key stakeholders leveraging expert knowledge.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Systems Analysis, Data Processing, Healthcare Informatics, Management Information Systems or closely related discipline.
• 5 - 7 years of Business Analyst Experience, or 5 - 7 years of Data Analytics Experience, or 5 - 7 years of Healthcare Industry Experience.
• Skills in SQL, SAS, Microsoft Office, problem-solving, communication, requirements analysis, and testing.

Nice-to-haves

• Master's Degree in Management Information Systems or Healthcare Informatics.
• 5 - 7 years of Data Warehousing Experience.