Principal Data Analyst – Healthcare Economics

WelbeHealth

Principal Data Analyst focusing on healthcare economics at WelbeHealth. Analyzing healthcare data to improve participant outcomes and drive organizational performance.

Posted 7/9/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $132,181 - $174,479 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

SQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Monitor and identify healthcare utilization trends, partnering with stakeholders to address key levers to improve quality and cost outcomes with a focus on healthcare utilization, such as home care, transportation, specialist, and facilities
Use hands-on visualization and report development skills to create clear, concise, professional-grade reports that are visually pleasing and deliver an unmatched user experience
Partner with business stakeholders to identify their data visualization and delivery needs, design report mockups, and iterate and co-create a final visual solution
Communicate effectively with business users, stakeholders, and leaders on how business and clinical logic is applied to information points to arrive at key KPIs and metrics, and how operational activities interlink to KPIs, OKRs, etc.
Create visual information delivery design reports that streamline how data is presented, delivered, and consumed for clinical and operational staff, stakeholders, and leaders
Build relationships and trust with business partners
Partner closely with the Business Information Management function to design business-facing semantic layers (data marts) and foundational information structures that feed into Power BI, in order to simplify data acquisition

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in analytical discipline or relevant field; master’s degree preferred
Actuarial certification is a strong plus
Minimum of five (5) years specializing in healthcare economics or actuarial-based analytics with hands-on experience with medical claims
Experience in HEDIS or similar quality measurement is a strong plus
Experience leveraging AI is a strong plus
Minimum of five (5) years of experience with business information architecture, business metric governance, metric cataloging, and data dictionaries
Minimum of seven (7) years of experience in analytics leveraging SQL/Databricks, with a focus on converting business information into visualizations, reports, and business-facing information delivery solutions

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical insurance coverage (Medical, Dental, Vision)
Work/life balance - We mean it! 17 days of personal time off (PTO), 12 holidays observed annually, and 6 sick days
401K savings + match
Comprehensive compensation package including base pay and bonus
And additional benefits!

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Hard Skills & Tools

AnalyticsReport DevelopmentData MartsMetric GovernanceHEDISAI LeveragingMedical Claims AnalysisData DictionariesKPI DevelopmentVisual Information Delivery

Soft Skills

Effective CommunicationRelationship BuildingCollaboration

Certifications

Bachelor’s DegreeMaster’s DegreeActuarial Certification