Kaiser Permanente-Washington Permanente Medical Group is seeking a full-time 1.0 FTE Senior Healthcare Data Analyst to join our WPMG HQ analytics team in Renton, Washington.

Job Summary

Senior Business Healthcare Analyst provides expert analytical services to support strategies and initiatives of the medical group in their administration and clinical operations. Responsible for navigating the wealth of internal and external data resources and developing actionable and insightful information for WPMG senior executives, physician leaders, and health plan business partners in the delivery of high quality and value patient care and services. Senior Analysts consult directly with clinical and business leaders in defining and development of data solutions that meet specific strategic imperatives of the organization. Draw on expertise in data analysis, health care processes and statistics, prepares dashboards and reports, applies appropriate statistical tests, provides analytical commentary, and educates analytical concepts in an understandable and actionable manner. This position is part of a high functioning centralized data, analytics and reporting work team that collaborates with other matrix business and project management functions in consultation to executive team, operational leaders, and health plan colleagues. It is critical for position to be highly organized with the ability to self-direct and prioritize assignments and work both independently and in close collaboration with others.

Principle Duties and Responsibilities

Conduct advanced, timely and relevant analytics in support of business partners/leaders to identify opportunities, highlight strengths and opportunities to meet business strategies, objectives, and goals.

Creates and maintain data visualizations that educate, inform, and engage business partners on key metrics and performance measures. This includes establishing best practices with operations and the enterprise data warehouse teams for the creation of dynamic, scalable and effective dashboards using Tableau and similar BI tools.

Operationalize business intelligence solutions which includes consultation, facilitation and/or participation in data product development from conceptual design and definition of variables through to translation of specific business issues and questions into appropriate functional, technical, and analytic designs, and final execution.

Demonstrates excellent presentation and communication skills to share findings in an understandable and actionable manner tailored to audience and customer's needs.

Establishes strong, supportive, effective and value-added relationships with assigned business partners. Communicates work plans, progress, findings and interpretations effectively with a continual focus on educating and developing analytic capability of business customers and the organization overall.

Develop deep domain knowledge on KPWA and WPMGs data systems and platforms related to general medical group business, clinical service line activities and provider/clinician services (content focus area).

Collaborates with enterprise data warehouse, data governance, clinical informatics and business teams on any issues relating to data quality, architecture or structure of data repositories impacting analytics. Develops and maintains appropriate current status and documentation on projects and work products.

Knowledge and Skills