Senior Associate, Data Delivery Population Health

Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

Data Delivery, Senior Associate

Position Summary:

The Population Health Data Delivery Senior Associates operate a proprietary ETL process developed by athenahealth. This role uses ETL tools to transform data from a wide variety of sources into a standardized destination format. Building a strong, consistent data set supports analysis and produces actionable insights for our clients. You are motivated by tackling large data sets and building processes and tools that will help the organization scale. You strive to conquer the complexity of data from payers, EMRs, and labs to truly impact healthcare.

Your drive allows you to achieve meaningful results, with empathy for the users of our products and services. You can influence both horizontally and vertically inside and outside of an organization. You appreciate the software development process and the varying personalities in the cross-functional groups that we work with. You possess the ability to prioritize and multi-task in a fast-paced environment, manage multiple complex projects simultaneously, meet deadlines, and demonstrate sound judgement when determining an issue’s urgency and whether to act independently or escalate.

Responsibilities:

• Assist team in executing client implementation projects, adapting the planned scope, and enacting contingency solutions as needed to ensure seamless flow of data from source to the front-end application

• Support implementations after go-live by adapting them per client request with an in-depth understanding of the ETL process and source data

• Execute on enhancements to current implementation tools and processes - to help team improve scalability and performance; tooling requires experience with SQL and knowledge of Powershell; Python familiarity is preferred for occasional situations

• Support seamless flow of data from source to the front-end application

• Using SQL, PowerBI, Jira and Confluence, monitor and analyze data to explain performance variation and trends as client data is managed on an ongoing basis

• Act as go-to resource for analysis and in-depth understanding of source data for internal stakeholders

• Proactively research and suggest solutions for implementations and any data issues to make an impact on successful processing for client

Typical Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience is required

• 2+ years of professional experience with data integration and relational databases

• Experience with Atlassian suite, Visual Studio Code, and Salesforce

• SQL programming experience required, other data management languages including Powershell and Python preferred

• Familiarity with healthcare data including adjudicated payer claims and clinical data sources preferred

• Experience in analyzing complex business problems and building solutions for those problems

• Aptitude and patience for reengineering processes, tools, and roles to improve scalability, efficiency, and quality

• Ability to influence others through enthusiasm, commitment, and vision rather than direct line authority

About athenahealth

Here’s our vision: To create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.  

What’s unique about our locations? 
From an historic, 19th century arsenal to a converted, landmark power plant, all of athenahealth’s offices were carefully chosen to represent our innovative spirit and promote the most positive and productive work environment for our teams. Our 10 offices across the United States and India — plus numerous remote employees — all work to modernize the healthcare experience, together. 
 
Our company culture might be our best feature. 
We don't take ourselves too seriously. But our work? That’s another story. athenahealth develops and implements products and services that support US healthcare: It’s our chance to create healthier futures for ourselves, for our family and friends, for everyone.  

Our vibrant and talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our goal. We continue to expand our workforce with amazing people who bring diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives at every level, and foster an environment where every athenista feels comfortable bringing their best selves to work. 

Our size makes a difference, too: We are small enough that your individual contributions will stand out — but large enough to grow you