Healthcare Data Analyst

Position: Healthcare Data Analyst (Strong SQL) Location: Remote Employment: Contract Job Description: Healthcare Data Analyst with strong expertise in advanced SQL, data modeling, value‑based care analytics, AWS (Redshift/Athena/S3) and building stakeholder-ready dashboards and insights. Responsibilities: - • Design and develop advanced SQL queries, data models, and optimized analytics pipelines to support large-scale healthcare analytics workloads. • Build dashboard-ready datasets and create insightful data visualizations and storytelling outputs for business and clinical stakeholders. • Work extensively with healthcare claims and clinical datasets, ensuring accurate interpretation of medical economics, risk adjustment, quality metrics, and population health indicators. • Support value‑based care programs, acting as an SME in internal and client discussions, and translating VBC requirements into measurable analytics deliverables. • Develop and maintain custom tables, views, stored procedures, and performance‑tuned SQL logic, preferably in AWS Redshift. • Build scalable data solutions using AWS services such as Redshift, Athena, S3, and integrate analytics workflows with Amazon Quick Sight dashboards. • Handle ad hoc analytics requests, delivering precise and actionable insights for healthcare customers with tight turnaround times. • Partner with cross‑functional teams and directly engage clients to understand business needs, refine requirements, and present analytics findings clearly to technical and non‑technical stakeholders. • Collaborate on projects using agile tools like Jira and Confluence, ensuring proper documentation, sprint planning, and delivery tracking. Mandatory skills • Advanced SQL & Data Modeling – Proven ability to design robust data models, write complex SQL, and build performant analytics pipelines. • Data Visualization & Storytelling – Ability to translate complex healthcare data into actionable insights using dashboards and stakeholder-ready visualizations. • Healthcare Analytics & Value-Based Care Expertise – Strong hands-on experience with claims and clinical data, value-based care metrics, and healthcare quality measures. Healthcare Data Experience • 5+ years of hands-on experience working with healthcare data • Deep expertise in claims and/or clinical data • Strong understanding of medical economics, risk adjustment, quality measures, and population health analytics Value-Based Care • Minimum 2+ years of experience supporting value-based care use cases • Ability to act as a Value-Based Care SME in internal and client-facing discussions Client & Stakeholder Engagement • Comfortable engaging directly with healthcare customers • Strong ability to translate business and value-based goals into actionable analytics deliverables • Experience presenting insights clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders