
Senior Data Analyst – Clinical
Alignment Health
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $85,696 - $128,543 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Design, build, and own standardized operational reports, dashboards, and scorecards for clinical, quality, and operational teams
- Define and develop key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to measure clinical outcomes, quality, utilization, productivity, and program effectiveness
- Partner with stakeholders to translate business and clinical requirements into scalable reporting solutions
- Ensure reporting solutions are reliable, repeatable, and aligned to operational workflows and decision-making needs
- Develop intuitive, user-friendly dashboards that enable leaders and frontline teams to track performance and identify issues quickly
- Apply best practices in data visualization to clearly communicate trends, risks, and opportunities
- Analyze clinical, claims, and encounter data to evaluate outcomes, quality performance, and adherence to clinical standards
- Identify variation in care, quality gaps, and utilization trends across populations, providers, and markets
- Support performance monitoring of clinical programs, internal teams, and operational workflows
- Develop and maintain complex SQL queries, datasets, and analytical models using large healthcare data sources
- Ensure data accuracy, validation, and documentation for all operational and analytical reporting
- Support ad hoc and deep-dive analyses to explain performance trends and root causes
- Work closely with Clinical Operations, Quality, Medical Economics, and Compliance teams to align metrics with strategic and operational priorities
- Present dashboards, insights, and recommendations to clinical and executive leadership
- Serve as a subject matter expert for clinical operational reporting and performance measurement
- Mentor junior analysts in reporting best practices and analytical rigor
- Contribute to analytics standards, data governance, and metric definitions
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in healthcare analytics or clinical data analysis
- Advanced proficiency in SQL and Excel; experience with SAS, R, or Python preferred
- Strong experience building dashboards and operational reporting using BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Looker)
- Experience working with healthcare claims, encounter, and/or clinical data
- Ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable insights
- Bachelor’s degree in Analytics, Statistics, Public Health, Health Informatics, or a related field; advanced degree preferred
- Medicare Advantage or managed care experience
- Experience developing operational metrics for clinical, quality, or utilization management teams
- Familiarity with care management, utilization management, or clinical quality workflows
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development
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Hard Skills & Tools
SQLExcelSASRPythondata visualizationdashboard developmentoperational reportinganalytical modelsKPI development
Soft Skills
communicationmentoringanalytical rigorstakeholder collaborationproblem-solvingtranslating complex dataattention to detailuser-friendly designperformance monitoringinsight presentation