Senior Decision Support Analyst

Overview:

TekWissen Group is a workforce management provider throughout the USA and many other countries in the world. Our client is a health and wellness organization located in Pittsburgh and operates health insurance plans in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and West Virginia.

Job Title: Senior Decision Support Analyst

Location: Remote

Duration: 7 Months

Job Type: Contract

Work Type: Remote

Job Description:

• This position works closely with our provider stakeholders and design teams in prioritizing data and information requirements.

• The successful candidate will perform analytics against claims and quality data in order to identify insights that can be shared with our provider stakeholders to improve their performance in value based reimbursement programs.

• This job provides analysis in the development and support of projects and data analysis.

• Determines how decision support systems will provide information required to make effective business decisions; translates requirements into applications that employ appropriate decision support and reporting tools.

• Recommends innovative approaches to analytical investigations. Performs modeling of data sources and flows, works with data management staff to define an operational framework that will define, develop and implement policies and security frameworks to ensure precise and secure delivery of knowledge and information.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and foster internal relationships across the corporation. Provide analytic and consultative support to a broad spectrum of internal customer areas and external business partners.

• Mentor colleagues with less experience on both the technical and business aspects of project and consultative work.

• Determine how decision support systems will provide information required to make effective business decisions, translate requirements into applications that employ appropriate decision support and reporting tools. Use broad experience and technical knowledge to propose solutions to complex business problems. Take the lead in driving the implementation of the recommended solutions.

• Take the lead in defining issues and ideas to be studied as well as the approach (methodological and technical) to be used in addressing studies and projects. Create and/or develop new methods of analysis, database design, and performance measurement or, in some cases, adaptation of existing solutions to new areas.

• Perform modeling of data sources and flows, work with data management staff to define an operational framework that will define, develop, and implement policies and security frameworks to ensure precise and secure deliver of knowledge and information.

• Provide assistance and, depending on skill and experience, lead with interpretation of raw data, statistical results or otherwise compiled information, identify follow-up action items, and prepare or assist in the preparation of written reports and/or oral presentation of findings to internal and external audiences, customer managers, clinical staff, compliance agencies, group accounts, providers, agent plans, and brokers.

• Develop and maintain moderate-to extremely-complex computer programs using 4GL programming languages (such as SAS, R, SQL) and other database technology (DB2, Teradata, and Oracle).

• Other duties as assigned or requested.

• Must have at least 3-5 years of healthcare analytics experience in a hospital or health insurance setting

• 3 years as an Analyst

• Must have healthcare analytics expeirence

• Bachelor's Degree required

• High level of experience with at least one of the following: Teradata, SAS, R, SQL

• Team player

• Excellent communication

• Experience working with claims

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity/affirmative action Employer (m/f/d/v) supporting workforce diversity.