Data Analyst

Apex Systems is hiring a Data Analyst for a large healthcare client.

Location: Fully remote anywhere in the Unted States.

Employment Type: 6-month contract with possibility to extend or convert.

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly analytical Data Analyst to support a large enterprise healthcare organization with analytics initiatives spanning Commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid populations. This role will focus on generating actionable datasets, supporting ad hoc business requests, and enabling predictive modeling initiatives such as member-level risk scoring. This is a hands-on data role requiring advanced SQL expertise, strong analytical curiosity, and the ability to explore and validate complex healthcare datasets.

Key Responsibilities

• Write highly complex SQL queries across Databricks and legacy Oracle systems, utilizing advanced constructs like multi-table JOINs, nested subqueries, CTEs, and window functions.
• Build member-level analytic datasets by synthesizing claims, eligibility, utilization, and risk data.
• Troubleshoot and refine queries for performance and accuracy in large-scale environments.
• Construct clean, structured datasets to support predictive modeling use cases, including feature engineering from raw data.
• Validate dataset integrity prior to model training through null analysis, duplication checks, and distribution validation.
• Partner with Data Scientists to ensure features align with modeling objectives.
• Perform deep exploratory analysis to uncover trends, patterns, anomalies, and data quality issues in healthcare datasets.
• Translate ambiguous stakeholder requests into structured queries and datasets.
• Develop recurring extracts and analytic views for operational and executive reporting.
• Collaborate with BI Developers to ensure reporting accuracy and consistency.

Required Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Information Systems, or a related field.

Technical Skills: Strong SQL skills are required, with the ability to write large, complex queries quickly and accurately. Experience with Python for analysis and visualization (e.g., pandas, matplotlib) is also necessary.

Experience: Experience working with relational databases and understanding table relationships is required. Candidates must demonstrate strong analytical thinking, curiosity, and the ability to interpret healthcare datasets and explain findings clearly.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Data Analytics, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Public Health, or a related field.
• PySpark experience.
• Basic data modeling knowledge.
• Experience with Databricks.
• Exposure to healthcare claims or population health data.
• Familiarity with basic data pipeline scheduling and transformations.

Work Environment

This is a fully remote position open to candidates located anywhere in the United States. The expected work schedule is Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Pacific Standard Time.

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

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Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

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