Your Role

The Data & Analytics team is responsible for performing detailed data analysis, source to target designs, data profiling, and metadata management in support of new development/implementation or enhancement of existing data assets. The IT Data Analyst, Consultant will report to the Manager of Data Solutions and Asset Management. In this role, you will participate in design, development, and implementation of large enterprise data warehouse/BI solutions. In addition, you will support operations and assist with production and incident resolution. This position requires strong collaboration with cross-functional team consisting of business system analysts, business partners, third party vendors, solution leads, data modelers, analysts, and development teams. The Data Analyst will be responsible for understanding business requirements, researching/analyzing requirements and understanding datasets that support business functions, conduct data profiling, provide appropriate source to target transformations rules/logic for the implementation. Data Analysts are expected to be an integral part of the full development lifecycle process from concept, design, development through testing, and implementation.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Be responsible for performing data analysis which includes inspecting, profiling, transforming with the goal of discovering useful information, suggesting conclusions, and supporting decision making
• Own and manage portfolios and multiple assets within healthcare portfolio and partner with analytics and business counterparts in providing solutions
• Perform data analysis, gap and impact analysis for medium to large sized assignment (with mid/large number of data elements, one-to-multiple sources, business impact, and visibility)
• Drive data analysis and profiling for complex data issues with options and recommendations
• Develop extensible and flexible data analysis process based on long term strategy and promote reuse of existing structures when possible 
• Work on multiple projects as a project leader or sometimes as a project advisor on projects of varying complexity
• Use documented procedures to create source-to-target mapping, capturing business and technical metadata, and complete data lineage
• Partner with Business Subject Matter Experts, Business System Analysts, Solution Technical Leads, Data/Application architects and development teams to analyze data requirements to ensure data design is aligned with business strategy, project and scope
• Perform ad hoc, live research to demonstrate/present data issues, patterns, relationships, findings and/or recommendations, risks, and assumptions
• Work with cross functional teams: data stewards, architects, data governance, data modeler, data quality, development, solution leads, and QA team to address data and mapping questions
• Work collaboratively with data quality analysts, data stewards, and data governance team to resolve data quality issues
• Influence stakeholders to make product improvements that yield business value by effectively making compelling cases through storytelling, visualizations, and other influencing tools
• Mentor and provide guidance to peers and junior staff