Data Analyst

Data Analyst

Reports To: Director of Data Strategy and Reporting

Department: IT

Hours: 40 Hours

FLSA Status: Exempt

Salary: $90k-125k

Position Summary:

The Data Analyst provides the foundation for analytics, namely the collection, quality assurance and availability of data. This IT role requires a significant set of technical skills, including a deep knowledge of SQL, SQL database design and multiple programming languages as well as communication skills to understand what data and analysis the healthcare analysts want to gain from Healthix data stores. They are responsible for the maintenance, improvement, cleansing and manipulation of data in the organization's operational and analytics databases. The Data Analyst works with team members to define and build data pipelines to orchestrate the movement, transformation, validation, and loading of data from the source to the final destination – data stores defined and implemented based on system requirements and data consumer requirements.

Typical tasks performed include working with the data architect on data warehouse design, ensuring data loads quickly, is easily accessible and rapidly comprehensible for analysts/users; extract, transform, and load (ETL) processing; performing thorough testing and validation in order to support the accuracy of data transformations and data verification to ensure correctness and that data is generally reliable for downstream consumption; data bounds checking and database tuning.

The Data Analyst strives to ensure proper data governance and quality for the Data Strategy team and the entire organization. They analyze complex data elements and systems, data flow, dependencies, and relationships to contribute to conceptual physical and logical data models. They work collaboratively within the Data Strategy team, providing support for their data centric needs. The candidate has strong working and conceptual knowledge of database queries multidimensional query and index tuning, monitoring, disaster recovery, backup, automated testing, automated schema migration, and continuous deployment.