Healthcare Data Analyst-Data Researcher

Pulselight is transforming how State and Federal Health & Human Services agencies use data to improve program integrity, strengthen oversight, and improve health outcomes. The Healthcare Data Analyst-Data Researcher will define and validate healthcare analytics concepts, build and test data logic, produce validation analyses, and create clear requirements for product, engineering, BI, and AI teams.

Responsibilities:

• Translate clinical and operational concepts into data definitions
• Validate those definitions using real-world data and ensure they’re generalizable, defensible and repeatable
• Build and test logic for identifying cohorts, treatment settings, services, provider types and more in data
• Deliver validation artifacts and analysis that help justify business logic to internal and external customers
• Write clear, structured requirements for BI engineers to implement the logic in new product features, delivering well-reasoned definitions for key domains (e.g., “residential treatment”, “psychotropic drugs”, “episode of care”)
• Build logic to support R&D or prototype functions
• Be the go-to expert on how our healthcare data maps to real-world use
• Support product / user analytics needs

Requirements:

• Must be legally authorized to work in the US without employer sponsorship
• 5+ years of experience as a data analyst, healthcare researcher, or informaticist
• Deep familiarity with Medicaid or Medicare data including enrollment, eligibility, claims/encounter structures and code sets
• Strong grasp of healthcare delivery models who can speak the language of both policy and data
• Can read program manuals, state guidance, or clinical documents and translate them into data logic
• Comfortable with SQL and Excel for data validation and exploration
• Self-starter with strong judgment; comfortable filling in gaps and proposing next steps
• Can quickly get oriented in new data and drive toward a clear output
• Love untangling ambiguity and making things clear for technical teams
• Have excellent documentation and communication skills
• Enjoy collaborating with product, engineering, and client-facing teams
• Experience with Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) or Program Integrity use cases
• Familiarity with data quality challenges in healthcare or state Medicaid systems
• Comfort working on fast-paced teams where processes are evolving
• Exposure to BI tools like Tableau, Power BI, or Looker