Associate Data Solutions Analyst – Medicaid Operations

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JOB SUMMARY

For candidates located within a 50-mile radius of our Pittsburgh office, this position operates on a hybrid schedule, with mandatory in-office work on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Candidates residing outside this 50-mile radius are eligible for fully remote work.

This job supports one or more analytical aspects of the business products and services life cycle, within a sub-product scope (one or more data components). Uses minimal judgement and discretion to assist in collaboration with customers to understand data, reporting, and analytical capability needs, gather project and data specifications, create data sets, operational reports, and analytical deliverables, translate high-level business data needs into detailed requirements for new capabilities (and change request/enhancements on existing capabilities), analyze data to determine business problems, trends, or opportunities for process improvements, create/execute test cases, provide root cause analysis and corrective action plan, verify delivery of customer data needs, and ensure quality delivery. Also supports identification, documentation, and resolution of risks, defects and issues. May analyze market trends for competitive insight to correlate into business value statements. Begins to build organizational and platform knowledge in one or more disciplines to advance professional track career. Requires basic understanding of data stores impact of changes across multiple data stores. 

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work with more senior team members, customers, Data Engineers, Data Architects, and Capability Managers to capture capability needs and drive quality data and reporting solutions. Create and maintain deliverables such as data set creation, opertaional reports, and analytical dashboards.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on data-driven projects, contributing to various stages of the data delivery lifecycle, leveraging diverse data skills and perspectives to drive project success.

• Support various aspects of data and report delivery requirements testing (e.g. testing plan, scenarios, documentation, defect management) to ensure minimal production defects are realized and completing analysis of the results tying back to customer impacts. 

• Assure compliance for required standards and all necessary approvals have been obtained throughout the data delivery lifecycle.

• Effectively communicate with team members, customers, partners and management, including assisting with or conducting requirement walkthroughs and sprint reviews, reporting project status, enabling vendor solutions and providing accurate and concise documentation.

• Other duties as assigned or requested.

EXPERIENCE

Required

• Information Systems and Technology

Preferred

• 1-2 years supporting reporting, analytics, or operational decision-making
• Health Insurance or Healthcare Industry

SKILLS

• Basic Analytical Skills

• Basic Problem-Solving

• Basic Communication Skills

• Report Writing

• SQL

EDUCATION

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Business Management, Information Systems or related field or relevant experience and/or education as determined by the company in lieu of bachelor's degree.   

Substitutions

• None

Preferred

• Master's degree in Business Administration, Business Management, Information Systems or related field

LICENSES or CERTIFICATIONS

Required

• None

Preferred

• None

Language (Other than English):

None

Travel Requirement:

0% - 25%

PHYSICAL, MENTAL DEMANDS and WORKING CONDITIONS

Position Type

Office- or Remote-based

Teaches / trains others

Occasionally

Travel from the office to various work sites or from site-to-site

Rarely

Works primarily out-of-the office selling products/services (sales employees)

Never

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