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- Partner closely with members of the SAS team to uncover analytical business needs within the Medicaid client
- Solid standard business analysis skills including o Requirements gathering and documentation o Meeting facilitation o Understanding business objectives o Communication skills, both written and verbal o Quick to catch on to new concepts, ability to “roll with the punches” o Competent using Visio
- Previous data warehouse experience, specifically focused on ETL o Ability to accurately document ETL-based requirements o Write Technical Design Documentation o Basic understanding of ETL coding, with SAS being a plus • Healthcare experience, preferably in the government space
- Ability to handle multiple projects at one time (minimum 4/5 but up to 10)
- Partner closely with the customers to ensure engagement drives value within the organization 2
- Translate business requirements into analytic methods, reports, and present results.
- Automate analytic processes.
- Translate customer business needs and problems into requirements for analytical approaches and reports.
- Examples of possible reporting needs:
- Traditionalost and utilization reporting
- Federal Reports such as CMS-64
- Quality Measures (HEDIS-like measures)
- Program Monitoring, Reporting, and Evaluation for Medicaid programs
- A minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field is required and equivalent work experience required. Successful candidates will possess: The candidate must have experience with Medicare Claims data and large databases.
- Health care industry domain experience, such as; o Understanding of claim handling processes, concepts, and industry trends
- 7+ years of Business Analyst experience.
- Analytical Programming experience in SAS as well as experience with SAS
- Deep experience doing reporting with healthcare claims and eligibility data
- Knowledge of common acronyms associated with Medicaid and healthcare (FPL, MCO, HMO, managed care, etc)
- Relevant experience in the Healthcare industry preferred (commercial or govt).
- Lead and/or actively participate in SAS knowledge-sharing activities.
- Be proficient in Base SAS programming (DATA step), SQL programming (i.e., use of SQL pass-through or PROC SQL), as well as the SAS Macro language for use in making code more efficient.
- Good written and spoken communications skills in English and thought-leadership skills.
- Project experience with efficiently handling and managing massive volumes of data (large SAS Datasets with upwards of tens of millions of records and/or terabytes of data storage).
- Have good oral and written communication skills.
- Lead and/or actively participate in SAS knowledge-sharing activities.
- Must be able to read, and understand existing coding and processing to troubleshoot and resolved issues as they arise. 3
- Demonstrate the ability to work with little direct supervision; Excellent troubleshooting skills; Imaginative, inquisitive, with a self-motivating personality and a strong work ethic; Customer focused demeanor.
- Gathering data requirements and designing/developing the Data Warehouse/ Data Marts
- Performing analytical and programming activities including analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and documentation of integrating the data management solutions
- Designs and develops reusable software modules that meet customer requirements while upholding high standards of reliability, security, maintainability, and performance.
- Enhances client’s datamarts and the enterprise data warehouse by working closely with internal and external teams. Participates in strategic planning to improve the organization’s ability to produce reports and data requirements for end-users.
- Advises management on how products and processes could be improved. Identify and evaluate industry trends in Analytical systems to serve as a source of information and advice for upper management.
- Must be able to read, and understand existing coding and processing to troubleshoot and resolved issues as they arise.
- Creates ‘Best Practices’ guidelines for creating and maintaining SAS projects/programs; participate in peer reviews for designs, code, and other work products.
- Provides production, development, QA support and performance tuning as needed to meet project deadlines.
- Leveraging this for processing, developing, maintaining and analyzing data and data preparation and validation routines to support the reporting of clinical measures and financial initiatives and cost information for managed care organizations