Senior Healthcare Data Analyst - Hamilton, NJ

At Optum, we create hundreds of custom applications and manage thousands of hardware components. Together, we deliver smarter, faster and simpler solutions for a modern, innovative health system. We are also the career home to Senior IT Data Analysts who bring compassion and passion, energy and focus to their work every day. If you strive to help people live healthier lives by building your career with a leader in health care, this is the career for you!  Come share your expertise and your passion and do your life's best work.(sm)

As part of this group, you will predominantly be involved in architecting and designing data warehouse solutions. You will be a primary contributor in developing, testing and deploying key data warehouses, data marts and will be working with cutting edge technology. This role will prepare you for significant career growth.

We are looking for a hardworking individual with data analysis and quality assurance skills to join our Hamilton, NJ team. As a Senior Healthcare Data Analyst, you will work closely with our client (New Jersey Department of Human Services) on one of the largest Human Service data warehouses in the country. You will perform business and systems analysis, implement system changes and enhancements, perform quality assurance, design and create reports, and design and develop front-end web-based presentation layers to transform data into easily consumed knowledge. A strong preference is given to expertise in the State Medicaid program but also includes other State programs such as TANF, SNAP, General Assistance, Child Care and Addition Services. Take this opportunity to use your talent in an autonomous position with the leader in healthcare analytics!

Primary Responsibilities:

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  Design and implement user-friendly reporting and other front end solutions using web authoring tools


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  Ensure that quality processes are carried out through all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle


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  Actively participate in walk-through, inspection, review and user group meetings for quality assurance


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  Provide help desk support to Shared Data Warehouse users


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  Lead requirements sessions, presentations and training programs


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  Develop and mature processes and quality assurance procedures


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  Gather, analyze and manage business requirements, and work with the development team to design and test new solutions including some light web development


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  Generate and update metadata and data mapping documentation

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or HS diploma/GED with 7+ years of comparable experience


• 3+ years experience working with Medicaid claim data or Clinical Healthcare data


• 5+ years of business data analysis experience


• 5+ years experience writing business requirements


• Experience using a business intelligence/OLAP tool to design and build new reporting


• 5+ years experience with SQL


• 5+ years experience with relational databases

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with formal testing and quality assurance procedures


• Experience working with the public sector, preferably with New Jersey state health & human services programs


• Experience with testing or process quality methodology


• Exposure to the project lifecycle


• Experience with data warehouses


• Hands-on experience in Business Objects Designer, Web-Intelligence, SPSS, Cognos and/or ArcView

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world?s large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work(sm)

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

Job keywords: IT, Information Technology, Claims, Medicaid, data analytics, data analysis, data warehouse, OLAP, SQL, relational database, Clinical Healthcare Data, BI, OLAPN, quality assurance, Business Objects Designer, Web Intelligence, SPSS, Cognos, ArcView, Hamilton, NJ