Senior Healthcare Data Analyst

All about us

You likely know us as an insurance company, but that’s just a portion of what we do. Hundreds of thousands of North Dakotans trust us to provide them with personalized service and unmatched access to care. It’s a mission we take seriously.

We also work with entities throughout the state to challenge the cost and complexity of health care in North Dakota. This uncompromising goal requires caring, innovative people who are ready and willing to help create a new level of health and well-being in North Dakota and beyond.

Work environment

This opportunity is eligible for remote, hybrid or in-office work arrangements. We empower our employees to find a work style that is best for them. Learn more at Life at Blue | BCBSND.

Pay information

Pay Level: 025

FLSA Category: Exempt-Salaried

A day in the life

The Senior Data Analyst is responsible for developing analytic solutions to complex problems. This role creates powerful analytics to enable thoughtful and impactful decision making across the organization.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Collaborates with internal team members to create reports, models and/or dashboards.
• Communicates the findings, patterns, and insights to stakeholders and provides data-driven forecasts and solutions.
• Identifies and builds analytics solutions which inform business operations, programs, and/or initiatives and delivers value for them.
• Uses modern tools to create and maintain data models for forecasting and prediction.
• Researches, hypothesizes, and develops analytical approaches for identifying, analyzing, and interpreting trends or patterns in large data sets.
• Ensures data integrity and compliance by performing data audit and/or data validation.
• Aggregates and performs statistical analyses on healthcare data.
• Leverages analytic platforms for statistical/data analysis projects and reporting.
• Performs work under minimal supervision. Handles complex issues and problems and refers only the most complex issues to higher-level staff.
• Collects, processes, and cleans large and complex data sets from various sources.
• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders on reporting questions and concerns.
• Coaches and mentor’s department staff and collaborates with leadership to support strategic goals within the team.
• Draws on tools and methods from statistics and machine learning to perform analysis, leverage predictive models, visualize data, and drive projects through to delivery of the intended outcome.
• Works directly with internal and external stakeholders to understand their questions, processes, programs and/or initiatives.

What you need to succeed

• 5 years of data analytics, statistics, comprehensive knowledge in SQL, R, Python, or other scripting languages, experience building models and applying them to business cases, creating data analytics and visualizations to enable self-service analytics or related experience.
• A bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Informatics, Analytics, Public Health, or related.
• SSRS experience is a plus!
• Experience with healthcare data is strongly preferred and will allow this individual to be successful in the role.
• Advanced ability to think analytically and problem solve unique situations.
• Ability to communicate verbally and in writing in order to take lead and partner well with others.
• Advanced knowledge in data analytics.

Equivalent combination of education, experience or training determined to be acceptable by Human Resources may be substituted, unless regulated by contract or program standards

Benefits and perks

• Employee recognition, community initiative events and yearly company outings.
• Workplace flexibility offering different options for working arrangements and the freedom to make time for important commitments.
• Wellness incentives including well-being lifestyle spending accounts, employee assistance program and employee discounts.
• Our core benefits include health, dental, vision and life insurance, short-term and long-term disability and paid parental leave.
• 16 hours of paid volunteer time with a $200 donation to a charity of your choice upon completion of all volunteer hours.
• Encouraged paid time off including paid holidays and flexible holidays to use as you wish.

Equal opportunity employment

Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans and Individual with Disabilities, as well as Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity.

For questions, please email [email protected].

This job posting will be closed 4/17/2023 at 8:00 a.m. (CT). No further applications will be considered.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)