Data Analyst

• Meet with business and technical teams to discuss functional design concepts and alternatives necessary to meet requirements.
• Help define acceptance test objectives, test cases and assist in system and integration testing.
• Holds self accountable for clear understanding of mission and goals for role and department. Achieves goals and helps to create an environment that fosters team commitment and employee engagement.
• Supports practices, policies and operating procedures and ensures alignment to departmental objectives and strategy.
• Understands effective communication across all levels of the organization (both upward and downward) with the appropriate message, the right tone and the appropriate level of impact.
• Teammate is able to make the complex seem less complex, is a consensus builder and brings people and teams together. Is able to calm tense situations by bringing clarity and organization to the forefront. Ensures each level of the organization has the information needed and the context needed to produce favorable results. Builds strong relationship with IT operational leaders to ensure connectivity to the business.
• Supports a work environment in which people are able to perform to the best of their abilities. Holds self accountable for technical abilities, productive results and leadership attributes.
• Recognizes problems and is able to make recommendations/decisions on the best course of action to remediate. Resourceful at coming up with solutions using existing or available resources based on knowledge of the organization and level of execution effort.
• Translates initiatives into actions through a thoughtful, organized and well-planned approach. Establishes measurement criteria and systems to track daily processes, implementation of new initiatives and value creation.

Secondary Functions:

Job Scope:

• Job involves a high degree of complexity and multitasking.
• Incumbent collaborates with team of professionals and is responsible for ensuring high level of quality work by applying team best practices and standards.
• Duties are performed semi-independently with general management oversight. Decisions are made within established departmental guidelines, Errors in judgment or work performance could result in insufficient operation for the organization.

Specific Job Skills and Experience:

• 3+ years of Data Analyst experience.
• 2+ years working knowledge in a Data Warehouse/BI environment, ETL tool skills a strong plus.
• 2+ years working knowledge of healthcare medical group business areas (clinical, operations, care management).
• Strong SQL skills and full understanding of querying relational databases.
• Experience with data quality and profiling tools.
• Experience documenting detailed requirements, design documents, and workflows in support of BI or sophisticated reporting capabilities.
• Ability to extract and manipulate data from multiple data sources using PLSQL.
• Experience with contemporary Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies such as Agile.
• Ability to work with data warehouse and BI developers in formulating recommendations and tactics based on data analyses.