Data Analyst - Health, Principal

Your Role

The Health Data Transformation & Evaluation team drives implementation of the Digital Health Record (DHR). As the business driver, the team leads the integration of various data sources into a longitudinal patient record. The Data Analyst-Health, Principal, will report to Sr. Manager, Health Data Strategy. In this role you will oversee, as a Business Product Owner, the design, development, testing, and deployment of the Digital Health Record, ensuring that it meets Blue Shield’s data-driven objectives. In addition, this role will lead efforts to validate accuracy and integrity of data received from DHR sources and its adoption within the operational workflows by end-users.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Liaise with cross functional teams of data architects, modelers and data quality analysts, who are responsible for building the Digital Health Record within the enterprise data warehouse
• Define and implement the data integration strategy, architecture, standards, and best practices for the Digital Health Record, ensuring alignment with the organization's vision, mission, and goals
• Establish and monitor the data quality and governance processes and perform user acceptance testing for the Digital Health Record, ensuring that the data is accurate, complete, consistent, and trustworthy
• Collaborate with stakeholders and business users across the enterprise to understand their data needs and expectations, and to deliver solutions that enable data-driven decision making and insights
• Lead design, analysis, and interpretation of various data sources to meet health data strategy goals including but not limited to creation of Digital Health Record
• Serve as a partner to the Director, Health Data Strategy and Evaluation team to ensure all Digital Health Record and Program evaluation data needs are met

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires an MPH, MBA, MS, MA in science, social science, public health, MIS, computer science, data science, health services research or business, or BA/BS with demonstrated equivalent work experience
• Requires 10 years of prior relevant experience, with at least 5 years of in Health Care (managed care, academic, or government payer)
• Proficiency and experience in health informatics is preferred
• Familiarity with health information exchanges, interoperability, longitudinal patient records and meaningful use is preferred
• Experience validating the quality and integrity of incoming data is preferred
• Prior experience in data analysis and reporting, such as SQL, BI tools, and data visualization is preferred
• Experience in Agile and DevOps methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, CI/CD, and Git is preferred
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and critical thinking skills, with the ability to deliver solutions that meet business objectives and requirements 

Pay Range:

The pay range for this role is: $136,400.00 to $204,600.00 for California.

Note: 

Please note that this range represents the pay range for this and many other positions at Blue Shield that fall into this pay grade. Blue Shield salaries are based on a variety of factors, including the candidate's experience, location (California, Bay area, or outside California), and current employee salaries for similar roles.

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