The Senior Data Analyst position will work in support of HealthPartners Dental Group (HPDG) data and reporting priorities.  They will: 

Partner with HPDG leadership to identify highest priority/value reports for transition to Power BI Identify opportunities to partner with other DataOps/Care Delivery colleagues in support of HPDG priorities.  Transition historical data from on-prem to the cloud, and migrate reports from Tableau to Power BI Maintain existing reporting through transition from Tableau to Power BI

POSITION PURPOSE:

Our mission is to provide simple and affordable healthcare. HealthPartners teams use data to improve patient and member experience, improve health, and reduce the per capita cost of health care. HealthPartners data analysts are responsible for driving adoption and use of data and analytic services and products. Data analysts work in collaborative scrum teams with developers, data scientists, and data engineers, and may share accountabilities in order to achieve sprint goals. They maintain a working knowledge of a business domain and its associated data, and provide visualization, analysis, validation, and consultation services. Together with their teams, they work on building scalable solutions to extract knowledge from data, and deliver that knowledge as needed and at scale.

 

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

All team members must champion and model our values of partnership, curiosity, compassion, integrity, and excellence, and must contribute to a culture of continuous learning

Partners with domain experts, business groups, and data engineers to frame problems, model, clean and integrate data, and determine the best way to leverage that data in service of a goal

Works with business partners to understand and create their “user stories;” they support opportunities to leverage data analytics in service of customer or business value

Creates, deploys, monitors, and maintains highly interactive data visualizations

Participates in strategic measurement activities, including Return on Investment (ROI) analyses, Key Performance Indicator (KPI) development, risk assessment and indexing, as well as domain-specific measurements (example: readmission rates)

Works with their teams to ensure data accessibility, accuracy, and quality, and may act as data stewards by contributing to management of central data stores and metadata

May provide consultative, data-driven support on product and business strategy development

Sets up and executes test cases to validate that analytic and software solutions meet the business acceptance criteria

Communicates solution tradeoffs to business partners to frame and influence project decisions

Leverages internal and external sources to validate data accuracy and benchmark results

Promotes and champions our security and de-identification standards, while they handle sensitive administrative data (medical and pharmacy claims, clinical data, and other sensitive organizational data assets).

REQUIRED SKILLS/ QUALIFICATIONS:

Candidates must have a degree in economics, mathematics, business, computer science, data or social science, operations research, statistics, or a related quantitative field. Alternate experience and education in equivalent areas is acceptable. Experience in more than one area is strongly preferred.

Four years direct experience using technical and analytical skills to extract, integrate, layout and interpret complex and disparate data sources

Demonstrated experience using data visualization tools such as Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, etc.

Demonstrated ability to tell stories using data

Solid working experience with SQL and relational database design

Programming skills using Python, R, etc. (“or similar”)

Demonstrated experience presenting findings and actionable recommendations

Must be motivated, self-driven, curious, and creative

Ability to communicate and demonstrate an ability to work with development teams, end users and business partners

Demonstrated ability to support and complement the work of a diverse development and / or operations team

 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Knowledge of health care operations

Exposure to agile/scrum (including tools like JIRA)

Experience using Azure Data Lake, DevOps, Power Automate, or other tools in the Azure Suite

Working knowledge of medical terminology, medical coding systems; ICD-10, CPT4, DRG, GPI.

Familiarity with software development, data and integration architecture