Sr Data Analyst

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Complete and maintain functional requirement forms and/or documents to define project parameters, build report requirements, and/or identify potential solutions. Identify appropriate data sources, report metrics, and tools for providing required information according to clients' requests. Determine scope of requested work in order to assess resource requirements and create work plans (e.g., time; personnel). Demonstrate understanding of reporting requirements for various benefits plans (e.g., health plans; prescription programs; care management programs). Demonstrate understanding of business terminology and acronyms in order to accurately interpret customers' requests. Provide information and/or assistance (e.g., answer questions; provide time estimates) to internal team members to support requirements gathering and planning efforts. Define and/or ensure that report parameters are established consistent with data governance requirements (e.g., share minimally necessary data). Identify and/or create relevant databases (e.g., fields; libraries) needed to source appropriate data. Present work products and research findings to team members and stakeholders. Develop data sets from multiple sources for use in functional tools (e.g. dashboards, reports, self-service tools) for end users.

Positions in this function are responsible for the management and manipulation of mostly structured data, with a focus on building business intelligence tools, conducting analysis to distinguish patterns and recognize trends, performing normalization operations and assuring data quality. Depending on the specific role and business line, example responsibilities in this function could include creating specifications to bring data into a common structure, creating product specifications and models, developing data solutions to support analyses, performing analysis, interpreting results, developing actionable insights and presenting recommendations for use across the company. Roles in this function could partner with stakeholders to understand data requirements and develop tools and models such as segmentation, dashboards, data visualizations, decision aids and business case analysis to support the organization. Other roles involved could include producing and managing the delivery of activity and value analytics to external stakeholders and clients. Team members will typically use business intelligence, data visualization, query, analytic and statistical software to build solutions, perform analysis and interpret data. Positions in this function work on predominately descriptive and regression-based analytics and tend to leverage subject matter expert views in the design of their analytics and algorithms. This function is not intended for employees performing the following work: production of standard or self-service operational reporting, casual inference led (healthcare analytics) or data pattern recognition (data science) analysis; and/or image or unstructured data analysis using sophisticated theoretical frameworks. Reviews the work of others. Develops innovative approaches. Sought out as SME.

Qualifications - Internal: Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience.