Senior Healthcare Data Analyst - Remote

Sentara Health is dedicated to improving the health and well-being of communities through its analytics team. They are seeking a Senior Healthcare Data Analyst to transform complex population, quality, and financial data into actionable insights for various stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Transform population health data into meaningful stories: Create dashboards, scorecards, and reports that communicate trends, performance, and opportunities in a clear and actionable way
• Develop analytics that drive enterprise-wide performance in the following domains:
• Quality Measures: HEDIS reporting, STAR ratings, gap closure
• Medical Expense: cost-of-care trends, utilization, savings opportunities
• Value-Based Care & Network Performance: contracting insights, pay-for-performance metrics, financial performance
• Employer Group Reporting: clinical and financial outcomes reporting for employer clients
• Clinical Integrated Network (CIN) Reporting: quality, financial, and operational analytics for CIN providers
• Provider Performance Analytics: quality, and financial performance analytics
• Benchmarking: quality, utilization, and performance benchmarking
• General Population Health Reporting: trends, cohorts, risk indicators, and care management support
• Support key reporting needs across the organization
• Engage directly with stakeholders: Collaborate with diverse internal teams, and external provider partners to understand analytic needs and translate them into actionable solutions
• Contribute as a senior team member onboarding, mentorship, and subject matter leadership

Requirements:

• Strong experience with SQL
• Proficiency with Power BI (Tableau exposure is helpful)
• Ability to build dashboards, performance scorecards, and data visualizations
• Strong data storytelling and ability to explain insights to diverse audiences
• Understanding of HEDIS, STAR ratings, gap closure workflows and impact to data/analytics
• Knowledge of value-based care, pay-for-performance, CIN operations, and provider analytics
• Experience working with medical expense data, utilization, and financial performance
• Familiarity with employer reporting and provider network analytics
• Excellent oral and written communication
• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking
• Consultative engagement skills
• Ability to work with interdisciplinary teams and external providers
• Bachelor's degree required
• 3+ years of healthcare analytics experience required, preferably in population health, quality, care management, or clinical analytics