Data Wrangler

Company Description

Why Wellmark?

We are a mutual insurance company owned by our policy holders across Iowa and South Dakota, and we’ve built our reputation on over 80 years’ worth of trust. We are not motivated by profits. We are motivated by the well-being of our friends, family, and neighbors–our members. If you’re passionate about joining an organization working hard to put its members first, to provide best-in-class service, and one that is committed to sustainability and innovation, consider applying today!

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Job Description

Responsible for building and maintaining complex data assets that allow analytics professionals to develop advanced business analytics and drive strategic business decisions. This position supports Wellmark's Federal Employee Program (FEP), a highly regulated line of business serving federal members and stakeholders. The role works closely with operational leaders, business partners, and analytics teams to source, transform, validate, and organize data from multiple systems into trusted reporting and analytic solutions.

The Data Wrangler plays a critical role in ensuring data accuracy, integrity, and accessibility while identifying opportunities for automation and process improvement. Through the development of reporting assets, dashboards, and data models, this position helps support FEP performance management, operational oversight, compliance monitoring, and informed decision-making.

Qualifications

Required :

• Bachelor’s degree in quantitative discipline such as statistics, mathematics, finance, accounting, computer science, engineering or economics.
• Less than 1-year hands-on experience or internship in a role pulling reports and analyzing data; experience with data discovery, profiling, cleansing, standardization and data quality management
• Ability to quickly learn new data sources and programming languages (e.g. SQL)
• Basic knowledge or experience with relational databases
• Detail oriented, self-motivated, excellent communicator, strong analytical/technical orientation
• Natural curiosity, and ability to drive business decisions and solutions
• Proactive self-starter with effective time management skills and the ability to organize and prioritize projects or tasks
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel with a strong emphasis in formulas, pivot tables and data visualizations

Preferred :

• Experience working with large data sets and spreadsheets
• Experience gathering and documenting business requirements
• Experience of cross functional activity in complex organizations with strong emphasis on influencing and collaboration
• Hands-on data analysis of databases and files using SQL dialects and programming languages (e.g. Python, Scala, Spark etc.)
• Experience with business intelligence/reporting/analytics platforms such as MS Power BI and Tableau etc.
• Proven ability to mine and query data across structured and unstructured data sets

Additional Information

Job Responsibilities

a. Wrangle data from a wide variety of data sets and assemble into normalized and enriched data assets that enables new insights, solutions, and visualizations.

b. Perform and document data profiling, quality assessment, source consolidation, aggregation and other data manipulation efforts, to understand data formats, source systems, file sizes, etc.

c. Develop simple, dependable automated reports and dashboards to surface key metrics that deliver information that is digestible and visually appealing.

d. Gather data set requirements from business analytics stakeholders in order to support downstream analysis.

e. Acquire, transform, map, and load data into a variety of data models. Responsible for documenting assigned data asset and dashboard architectures.

f. Create, update, and maintain documentation and procedures for sourcing, analyzing, and preparing internal reporting and presentations. Ensure the highest quality and integrity of data sources.

g. Other duties as assigned.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

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Wellmark supports and expects the responsible use of AI for our workforce! We welcome the responsible use of these tools by job seekers as well and are interested in learning from you; you will have an opportunity in the application process to share which tools you used and how you applied them.