Life at Healthy Alliance 

At Healthy Alliance, our purpose is to improve health and empower communities facing barriers. Every community has its own needs, affecting the health of those who live, learn, work, and play within them. Our network brings together organizations, big and small, to coordinate and collaborate so that all communities have reliable access to the resources they need. Why? Because every New Yorker deserves the same opportunity to be healthy.  

Designated as the Social Care Network (SCN) Lead Entity for the Capital Region, Central NY, and North Country under New York’s 1115 Waiver Amendment’s SCN & Health-Related Social Needs (HRSN) Program, we are responsible for ensuring that there is a seamless, consistent end-to-end process for screening, navigation, and the delivery of services – including food, housing, and transportation to thousands of Medicaid Members. Transformative in nature, this novel Program will further sustain our vision of cultivating a world wherein everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. 

As a 2019-2024 Albany Business Review’s Best Places to Work and a 2021-2025 Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work in Health Care award recipient, we strive to maintain a culture wherein high-performing, mission-driven team members collectively work toward better health for all. Dedicated to promoting a culture built upon autonomy, mastery, and purpose, we believe our differences in strengths and perspectives play an integral role in propelling us forward, while our core values ground us, serving as the common thread that unites our team. 

Why You Should Join Healthy Alliance 

We offer amenities, professional development opportunities, events, and programming that support the interests of our teams while expanding and enriching our culture. Some of the benefits you can expect when you join Healthy Alliance include: 

• Competitive compensation package  
• Comprehensive insurance benefits available the 1st of the month after hire, including but not limited to medical, dental and vision, group short-term disability and life insurance with buy-up options, flexible spending and HSA company-contributed accounts, and more 
• 401K with a company match 
• Unlimited paid time off after 90 days of employment 
• Company-sponsored training and certification opportunities 
• Remote employer with flexible work schedules 
• A workplace that values safety, respect, employee engagement, recognition, and diversity 
• Salary range: $95,250-$109,537 per year, commensurate with experience 

Who You Are 

The Senior Data Analyst is responsible for establishing and maintaining data analysis strategy and processes that support the organization's mission, strategic initiatives, and contractual obligations. This position is part of our Transformation Team and collaborates closely with business and technical teams, driving data-driven decisions and insights to improve the health of communities facing barriers. 

What You’ll Do 

• Works with key business partners to understand business priorities and develop effective and timely analytic solutions. Translates business requirements into data and reports technical specifications. 
• Queries, profiles, validates, analyzes, and evaluates data across multiple databases with a keen eye on data integrity and accuracy.  
• Analyzes social care and other health care related data and calculates metrics, including health care outcomes, quality, and cost savings.  
• Mentors’ other data analysts in creating and executing analysis plans.  
• Presents and explains results of analyses, internally and externally, guiding business departments in effective use of data. 
• Investigates and analyzes data to identify trends that could benefit both internal and external clients.  
• Support quality control processes by Identifying data discrepancies and opportunities for improved data capture.  
• Ensures constant compliance with data standards and data sharing regulations and guidelines, with an emphasis on continuous quality control and process improvements. 
• Designs and develops ongoing and ad-hoc reports and dashboards for internal and external customers, ensuring timeliness and accuracy of data.  
• Provides data management documentation, inclusive of reporting and analytics platforms. 
• Stays up to date on data trends, tools, and data analytic methodologies used in the health care industry.  
• Embody Healthy Alliance’s vision, mission, and goals. 
• Contribute to a positive work environment by demonstrating cultural expectations, rewarding performance, and valuing accountability, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, continuous improvement, collaboration, creativity, and fun. 

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of task activities and/or duties that are required of the employee for this job. Responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.  

What You’ll Need 

Education 

• Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science, and engineering.   
• Equivalent work experience in a related field may be considered in lieu of degree requirements. 

Professional Work Experience 

• Minimum of 5+ years data analysis experience utilizing large diverse data sets. 
• Must have experience in health care or social care services industries. 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities 

• Strongly preferred experience or familiarity with Clinical Quality reporting, Medicare, Medicaid or Commercial payer claims data, ICD, Electronic Health Record/Electronic Medical Record (EHR/EMR) Systems, Health Information Exchange (HIE)/Health Data Exchange standards, clinical data sets, health policy issues including public health, health care analysis concepts and tools including master data management, patient attribution, and risk scoring.   
• Experience in performance tuning of reporting queries.  
• Experience developing advanced SQL queries. 
• Experience analyzing and conducting critical analysis to derive business insights (i.e., segmentation).  
• Experience developing reports and dashboards in a Business Intelligence (BI) tool (i.e., Power BI, Tableau). 
• Ability to perform quality control activities and trouble- shooting data quality issues.  
• Experience with programming tools and languages (e.g., SAS, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, etc.) a plus.  
• Experience generating analyses using statistical methods and software tools (e.g., SAS, R, Python) a plus. 
• Experience with Azure a plus. 
• Strong communication skills and ability to transform data into information, information into complex analytics and analytics into actionable plain language to drive business decisions. 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate methods and results to a non-technical audience. 
• Experience and proficiency in Microsoft Office suite of products, including Excel and Power BI.  
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and presentation skills.  
• Performs all work in accordance with Healthy Alliance core competencies and values. 

Your next career opportunity is at Healthy Alliance! 

This position involves sedentary work that primarily involves sitting/standing, use of typical office equipment such as a computer, laptop, and cell phone. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

Equal Opportunity Employer 

Healthy Alliance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We adhere to these principles in all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, benefits, social and recreational programs, and discipline. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to hr@healthyalliance.org.  

Privacy Requirement  

This job function involves potential access / interaction with protected health information. Position will be required to abide by company policies and procedures that support federal, state, and local HIPAA regulations. Any violations will be subject to company policy which includes disciplinary actions up to and including separation of employment.  

Healthy Alliance is an At-Will Employer.