Senior Analyst

Key Skills: Data Analyst, Data Analysis, DB2, SQL, Requirement gathering, Data Management, Mainframe, Data Warehouse

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with business users, developers, and data architects to gather requirements and translate them into functional/non-functional specifications.
• Analyze and translate healthcare business requirements related to financial transactions, eligibility, membership, providers, networks, etc., into functional specifications.
• Gather and assess requirements and assist with translation into optimal solutions.
• Create data mapping documents for mapping and validating data elements from multiple source systems to the warehouse.
• Collaborate with QA teams to define test strategies, cases, and expected results for data flows within the system.
• Walkthrough the functional design documents and related deliverables with the technical team and business team to seek signoff.
• Review and provide feedback on the technical design documents from the technical team to ensure it aligns with the functional design document and leverages best practices from a Data Warehouse perspective.
• Lead efforts to improve data quality and system reliability. Troubleshoot production issues, perform data profiling, impact analysis, and root cause analysis to implement long-term solutions.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure data integrity and smooth system integrations.
• Participate in the full system development life cycle (SDLC), including analysis, design, testing, implementation, and documentation.
• Provide functional support in the form of research, documentation updates, and enhancement requests during the testing phase to ensure the defects identified are valid defects that the technical team needs to work on.
• Mentor junior analysts and contribute to best practices in mainframe-based data processing and architecture.

Skills Required:

• Strong experience in data analysis and data management
• Hands-on knowledge of SQL and DB2
• Experience working on mainframe systems
• Good at requirement gathering and documentation
• Understanding of healthcare data and financial systems
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams
• Basic knowledge of data warehouse concepts (added advantage)

Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science/information systems/Software Engineering (or Business Administration with IT experience)