Lead Analyst, Healthcare Analytics (Data Stewardship & Enterprise Reporting) – Remote

Molina Healthcare is a company focused on healthcare solutions, and they are seeking a Lead Analyst for Healthcare Analytics. This role involves serving as a data steward, designing and prototyping medical economics data assets, and ensuring the data reflects real-world business processes.

Responsibilities:

• Performs research and analysis of complex healthcare data (eligibility, claims, auths etc.)
• Acts as the designated data steward for assigned domains
• Maintain and evolve business definitions, data logic and rules
• Apply deep subject matter expertise to ensure data reflects real-world business processes
• Translates business needs into clear, structured data requirements and logic
• Identify and resolve ambiguities, inconsistencies, and gaps in definitions
• Partner with stakeholders to align on intended meaning vs actual implementation
• Contributes to data model design and evolution
• Builds design prototypes
• Provides detailed requirements to engineering for implementation
• Defines and execute data validation and quality checks
• Investigates anomalies and discrepancies across systems
• Drives resolution with appropriate teams (engineering, source system owners, etc.)
• Maintain clear, structured documentation to ensure traceability between business intent and data implementation
• Support downstream users (reporting, actuarial, finance) in understanding and using data correctly
• Has experience working with large-scale healthcare datasets
• Understands healthcare economics and operations
• Pays strong attention to details with ability to see the big picture
• Communicates clearly and concisely
• Escalates cross-domain conflicts, prioritization trade-offs, and strategic decisions to Manager/Director
• Operates effectively within defined ownership structures
• Proactively identifies and resolves issues, not wait for direction

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science
• 6+ years of progressive responsibilities in Data, Finance or Systems Analysis
• Expert knowledge with SQL
• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Economics, Math, or Computer Science
• Experience in Medical Economics
• Business stakeholder management
• Familiarity with Python, R or BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI)
• Experience with service categorization
• Deep auth data knowledge