Principal Healthcare Data Analytics Specialist

Location: This position is a hybrid role based out of our Canonsburg, PA office. The current expectation is that we are in office two days each week (Tuesday-Wed), with extra additional days as required during the month.

Business Unit: Pharmacy

Overview:  As a Principal Healthcare Data Analytics Specialist, primary responsibility is to lead and implement the design of data acquisition, transformation, and analytical modeling of clinical and health data from Inovalon’s technical platforms and databases, with the ability to envision future uses and growth trajectories of the those designs in supporting impactful, dynamic, and insightful healthcare data analytics such as opportunity analyses, risk adjustment and predictive modeling, program evaluation studies, customer reporting, product development, and ad-hoc analytics.  The Principal Healthcare Data Analytics Specialist understands and works on complex projects where analysis of situations or systems requires advanced knowledge and wide-ranging experience and calls for reliable judgments in selecting methods and design options.  This job often serves as an important contributor and trusted advisor on important technical issues.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Contribute and lead data modelling and system architectural designs for high-impact projects, products, and infrastructure.
• Develop, perform, and/or oversee complex and detailed statistical analyses and modeling of clinical and operational data with outputs that are clear and relevant to the users;
• Lead in the design and development of statistical analyses and reports that explore and present large amounts of data to discover underlying patterns and trends related to quality, safety, and clinical performance;
• Lead in working with information from a variety of healthcare data sources, including EHR, financial, publicly reported quality measurement and reimbursement data, and other resources using a variety of highly-specific tool such as, but not limited to R, SQL or Power BI;
• Develop requirements for data mapping and data loading processes. Execute data mapping/loading requirements and reconcilement of such activities;
• Plan and design data integration strategies, develop intuitive designs, and build enterprise interactive dashboards with built in guided healthcare data analytics;
• Lead in identifying and researching anomalies and outliers in data.  Proactively identify problematic areas and conduct research to determine the best course of action to correct the data;
• Lead in strategies to monitor and perform trend analysis for the company and research report on anomalies
• Maintain compliance with Inovalon’s policies, procedures and mission statement;
• Act as subject matter expert and trusted advisor to key stakeholders.
• Maintain compliance with Inovalon’s policies, procedures and mission statement;
• Adhere to all confidentiality and HIPAA requirements as outlined within Inovalon’s Operating Policies and Procedures in all ways and at all times with respect to any aspect of the data handled or services rendered in the undertaking of the position; and
• Fulfill those responsibilities and/or duties that may be reasonably provided by Inovalon for the purpose of achieving operational and financial success of the Employer.

Job Requirements:

• At least 8 years of experience in healthcare data analytics, data science, or related field;
• Expert conducting statistical analyses and data mining using tools;
• Expert with data management and visualization tools, such as SQL and PowerBI;
• Experience with Snowflake or other cloud-based data warehouse platforms;
• Possession of strong analytical / statistical skills used in evaluating and analyzing data;
• Strong organization skills and attention to details, comfortable working with minimum direction;
• Ability to lead technical discussions, independently contribute to high-level design and development, and effectively explain technical concepts to audiences of varying technical knowledge.
• Ability to advise on the selection of the right tools and environments for engineering and analytics teams.
• Adaptable to changing organizational requirements and priorities and supportive of a diverse work force;
• Ability to collaborate with others in diplomatic, tactful manner, while exercising sensitivity and discretion as needed;
• Experience managing and working with data in a heavily regulated industry.
• Advanced PC skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, and other programs); and
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Coaching and mentoring skills.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Statistics, Analytics, or a related field of study, and 8 years of related experience;
• Or Master’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Statistics, Analytics, or a related field of study, plus at least 5 years of experience. 

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

• Sedentary work (i.e., sitting for long periods of time);
• Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force;
• Frequently or constantly to lift, carry push, pull or otherwise move objects and repetitive motions
• Subject to inside environmental conditions; and
• Travel for this position will include less than 5% locally usually for training purposes.

Inovalon is an American technology company that provides cloud-based tools for healthcare.