Analyst, Data

HealthPartners is hiring a Data Analyst. 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 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

Partners with other analysts to create, deploy, monitor, and maintain 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

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

Executes test cases to validate that analytic and software solutions meet the business acceptance criteria

Data analysts leverage 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:

Bachelor's 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.

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

Must have the ability to tell stories using data

Basic knowledge of SQL and relational database design

Familiarity with Python, R, etc. ("or similar")

Some working knowledge or training using technical and analytical skills to extract, integrate, layout and interpret complex and disparate data sources

Demonstrated ability to present findings and actionable recommendations

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

Ability to communicate and 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)

Some knowledge of programming skills using Python, R, etc. ("or similar")

Willingness to learn medical terminology, medical coding systems; ICD-10, CPT4, DRG, GPI.

Familiarity with software development, data and integration architecture