Senior Data Systems Analyst

Senior Data Systems Analyst

United Therapeutics seeks to travel down the corridors of indifference to develop treatments for rare, deadly diseases. The Senior Data Systems Analyst will collaborate with the Distribution Analytics team to ensure proper functionality of current data applications and programs. This position will play a critical role in supporting data automation, data mining, and cleansing. The role entails the enhancement and maintenance of automated programs and systems that aid in statistical analysis and forecasting. Distribution Analytics supports a range of teams, including Executive, Trade, Managed Markets, Global Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Finance, and Government Price Reporting. This role will also provide expertise in reporting systems, including the Microsoft suite and Fabric tools such as Power BI.

Responsibilities include:

• Analyze past results, perform variance analysis, identify trends, and make recommendations for areas of improvement in data automation and data systems
• Serve as the backbone of the data ecosystem, designing and maintaining the connections between SQL databases, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and Dataflow pipelines
• Own end-to-end data integration across systems, ensuring consistent, reliable, and performant data flow across the organization
• Develop new Excel insights and Power BI analytics leveraging existing and new dataflows, notebooks, and lakehouses
• Identify and support process improvements, including creation of standard and ad-hoc reports and tools using Excel and other dashboards
• Support data mining, cleansing, and data quality for Executive, Trade, Finance, IT, Managed Markets, and Government Price Reporting projects
• Perform reconciliation and management of commercial inventory transactions in compliance with related contracted terms, including DOH monitoring and inventory management
• Build and manage Power BI semantic models, ensuring datasets are clean, governed, and ready for self-service analytics
• Support inventory, specialty pharmacy, and sales-related data within Fabric and/or Databricks
• Support development and use of automation tools for monitoring data quality
• Serve as point of contact to IT for the team

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in a related discipline
• 5+ years of relevant data analysis and/or data engineering experience
• 3+ years of experience with managing and interpreting large amounts of data and the ability to explain the outcomes of the information including data systems development, data mining, and data cleansing
• 3+ years of proficient experience with Excel, Power BI, and other analytical/reporting platforms
• 1+ year of project management experience
• Strong proficiency in SQL, including complex joins, window functions, stored procedures, and query optimization
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric, including Lakehouses, Pipelines, and Dataflows Gen2
• Demonstrated ability to build enterprise-grade Power BI reports and semantic models (DirectQuery, composite models)
• General knowledge of statistical modeling and forecasting
• Deep understanding of data warehouse concepts — star schemas, slowly changing dimensions, incremental refresh
• Experience connecting disparate systems and thinking holistically about data flow and dependencies
• Strong written and verbal skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with the Power Query M language for advanced transformation logic
• Experience with medallion architecture (Bronze / Silver / Gold) within Fabric or a similar platform
• Exposure to CI/CD practices for data pipelines and version-controlled development

This position will be located in the RTP, NC office of United Therapeutics. Currently this job is a hybrid role requiring at least three days per week in the office. In office requirements could increase based on business needs.