Senior Research Analyst

The Senior Research Analyst will support new pilots and scaled innovations with analyses that leverage rich data sources including national Medicare claims, other payer claims, electronic health records, and event notification data.
They will work cross-functionally with partners across our product and engineering organizations to surface insights on program performance and support recommendations for improvement. 
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in healthcare analytics, an understanding of population health strategies, and a passion for having a direct impact on primary care practices and contributing to a data-driven organization.

Primary Duties

• Understand the problem space:
• Work with teams across Aledade and external partners to understand and clarify questions and issues for data analysis and experiments.

Design and execute analyses:
• Design descriptive, predictive, and/or causal inference statistical analyses to answer key business questions.
• Design and program code to integrate, evaluate, and analyze diverse data sources.
• Perform data analysis and statistical modeling to generate actionable insights and solutions. 
• Support junior colleagues in programming and model implementation.

Translate and communicate analysis results:
• Work across teams at Aledade to synthesize results, identify implications of analysis results and translate findings into action.
• Lead development of analytic products that accurately communicate insights from the data and inspire action. 
• Work closely with engineering and other product partners to enable analytic solutions.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 6+ years of relevant experience. 
• Advanced degree may substitute for some experience.

Preferred KSA’s

• Experience with SQL for data manipulation and R or Python for statistical programming
• Experience with healthcare data sources such as medical or pharmacy claims, electronic health record, event notification, clinical, and patient reported data, and working in a complex enterprise data warehouse
• Masters in health services research, mathematics/statistics, epidemiology, biostatistics, econometrics, or related field
• Excellent quantitative analysis abilities, with demonstrated ability to conduct nuanced analyses to produce accurate and unbiased results and tell the story of those results in data visualizations, presentations, and reports.
• Attention to detail, particularly with version control (e.g. Git), quality assurance, documentation, and building repeatable processes
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and manage competing deadlines and priorities.
• Values people with differing backgrounds and perspectives; supports effective interpersonal and intercultural engagement
• Well-versed in Equity and Inclusion language, concepts, and principles (i.e. health disparities, social drivers of health, implicit bias) and able to communicate and explain them to larger audiences
• Committed to serving teammates and patients with empathy and respect
• Ability to manage research projects through the entire life cycle, from design through implementation, documentation, and presentation of findings
• Experience with causal inference methods including designing and/or conducting experimental and quasi-experimental studies (e.g., randomized trials; regression discontinuity, difference-in-differences, instrumental variables, and matched designs).
• Thinks beyond their immediate team and contributes to making Aledade holistically better (active engagement in employee resource groups, DE&I initiatives, book/journal clubs, facilitating training, leading roundtables, etc.)
• Knowledge of standard methods for measuring health care utilization, spending, quality, and related outcomes

Physical Requirements

• Sitting for prolonged periods of time. Extensive use of computers and keyboard.

Who We Are:Aledade, a public benefit corporation, exists to empower the most transformational part of our health care landscape - independent primary care. We were founded in 2014, and since then, we've become the largest network of independent primary care in the country - helping practices, health centers and clinics deliver better care to their patients and thrive in value-based care. Additionally, by creating value-based contracts across a wide variety of health plans, we aim to flip the script on the traditional fee-for-service model. Our work strengthens continuity of care, aligns incentives and ensures primary care physicians are paid for what they do best - keeping patients healthy. If you want to help create a health care system that is good for patients, good for practices and good for society - and if you're eager to join a col