The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) is seeking a Data Analyst V to lead the Acute Care Data and Research team and perform complex data collection, reporting, and analysis to monitor, evaluate, and increase efficiencies for Acute Care.
Requirements
- Advanced Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), business objects, TMHP Software, claims processing engines, SQL, R, SAS, Python.
- Data analysis, statistics, data visualization, medical claims data, methods of funding, program rules, Medicare, and Medicaid.
- Experience with Medicaid and/or healthcare finance preferred.
- Experience with SQL-based data querying software preferred.
- Knowledge of data quality and integrity processes.
- Knowledge of process improvement or quality assurance systems
- Ability to work with large datasets efficiently.
Responsibilities
- Compiles, queries, and loads data points using SQL, and other query languages, into databases from a variety of source formats to support complex analyses.
- Cleans and prepares data, as necessary, for access to other analysts in their work products as well as data visualization.
- Provides guidance and mentorship on data use and best practices to analysts throughout the department.
- Establishes and updates data quality metrics, recommending and implementing improvements to data quality associated with processes.
- Ensures data integrity by identifying data gaps, errors, anomalies, inconsistencies, and redundancies in the content, structure, and relationships within data.
- Oversees development of high-quality written projects and reports; guides the selection of data management tools, the development of standards, usage guidelines, and procedures for those tools to be used by the rest of the team.
- Develops software applications or programming to use for financial analysis, statistical modeling, and graphic analysis.
Other
- Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a bachelor’s degree in social science; business, including accounting and statistics; mathematics; physics; economics; health-related field; political science; or other closely related field.
- Ability to interpret data and develop effective operating procedures.
- Ability to organize and present information effectively, both orally and in writing to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to establish goals and objectives.
- Ability to train and provide constructive feedback to staff.
- Ability to lead in an environment of change.
- Ability to plan, assign, and evaluate the work of others and build effective work teams.
- Ability to effectively motivate and provide direction to staff.
- Ability to establish effective working relationships with staff at all levels of an organization, agencies, providers, and stakeholders.
