The Business Intelligence Analyst supports Northwest Permanente Analytics team vision, mission, and strategic goals by developing and delivering innovative analytic solutions that drive decision-making, action, and positive outcomes. The Analyst provides support for day-to-day operations including analysis, routine report maintenance and development, and production support. Major Responsibilities / Essential Functions

• Develops a deep understanding of operational, clinical and/or administrative functions and processes within areas of focus.
• Maintains expertise in the data landscape and cutting-edge technology, ready with the knowledge and skills to rapidly recommend and execute analytic solutions to business problems.
• Completes analyses and educates customers and leaders on trends, challenges, and opportunities that influence decision-making and action.
• Works through the full life cycle of analytic and/or technical projects from conception to execution: requirement gathering, data exploration, extraction, cleansing, enrichment, visualization, validation, synthesis, and interpretation.
• Ensures quality, clarity, and applicability of deliverables and that they meet customer expectations, regulatory requirements, and/or department standards and assists in communicating deliverables to customers, providing clear and concise explanation of data delivered, and ensures progress reporting throughout life cycle of project.
• Adopts and implements standard methodologies in data infrastructure, reporting and analysis.
• Partners with data engineers to build, enhance and maintain robust data assets including documenting business requirements and conducting UAT.
• Provides project coordination and/or administrative support for various business critical analysis and reporting needs. Supports the development and maintenance of project plans, including project schedules and plans for resources, communications and risks.

Minimum Qualifications -

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Healthcare Administration, Economics, Analytics, Public Health, or another applicable quantitative field or equivalent education and experience.
• Minimum two (2) years of experience in data analytics.
• Strong passion for data analytics and contributing to an organization focused on continuous improvement.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills a demonstrated ability to mine data for relevant and actionable insights.
• Proven ability to work on multiple projects, deadlines, and priorities in a fast-paced, ever-changing, and evolving work environment.
• Possesses excellent interpersonal, collaboration and relationship-building skills and can work effectively within a diverse culture.
• Familiarity with legal, security and regulatory issues associated with managing and exposing sensitive institutional data.
• Experience visualizing analytics in simple, logical, and compelling ways.
• Experience with analytics and visualization software such as SQL, SAS, R, Python, Power BI, or Tableau.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Healthcare Administration, Economics, Analytics, Public Health, or another applicable quantitative field.
• Two (2) years of data analytics experience within an integrated healthcare organization that includes hospitals, clinics, medical group practices, and a health plan.
• Experience with EPIC.

Join Our Medical Group Northwest Permanente is a self-governed, physician-led, multi-specialty group of 1,500 physicians, surgeons, and clinicians, caring for 630,000 members in Oregon and Southwest Washington. Kaiser Permanente is one of the nation's preeminent health care systems, a benchmark for comprehensive, integrated, value-based, and high-quality care. Equal Opportunity Employer At Northwest Permanente, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Northwest Permanente believes that equity, inclusion, and diversity among our employees are critical to our success, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.