What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Business Analyst position at vizient?
When you’re the best, we’re the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future. Develop and maintain State Data Warehouse by creating software for loading and performing quality assurance of third-party vendor data for use in proprietary forecasting, performance tools, product deliverables, and consulting projects. Manage implementation and maintenance of new and existing data workflows and identify opportunities to enhance data acquisition, processing, and delivery processes. Contribute to development of next generation systems for improving timeliness and efficiency of proprietary analytics. Develop user stories and product backlogs for one or two primary products. Apply analytical thinking and problem solving skills to provide product solutions. Own the lifecycle of one or two primary products and act as an expert in more than one inter-related product areas. Lead analysis of requirements and impact to applications and/or business processes and across other applications. Gather, analyze, and document user requirements and translate them into user stories. Plan and conduct stakeholder interviews to gather requirements and/or understand current business processes. Develop and maintain product backlogs and coordinate with others on dependent stories. Implement requirements traceability from user stories to product features. Actively participate in discovery workshops to aid. Participate in discussions during Agile ceremonies for iteration planning. Clarify requirements during testing. Field questions from stakeholders/end users during user acceptance testing and perform triage; identify potential options to aid in the resolution process. Lead the user story refinement ceremony by driving the discussion and providing clarification. Promote and recommend solutions for continuous improvements to Agile processes. Conduct gap analysis to identify solutions that meet business requirements. Collaborate with the development team to ensure designs meet requirements and standards. Write SQL queries to review application data. Review application data to identify and triage discrepancies. Partner with business owners and technical architects to set a strategic product direction and scope out project efforts. Identify and suggest opportunities to improve user experience for one or two primary products. Mentors others on best practices and drives accountability. Meets training requirements and follows established procedures and proposes new procedures. Ensures the use of metrics to measure progress of group or departmental issues. Provides reasonable estimates for work products. Utilizes and evaluates metrics to identify and implement improvements to standards and procedures. MINIMUM EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS: Requires a Master's degree in Statistics, Health Informatics and Analytics, or a directly related field of study, plus the following experience: 3 years experience in EACH of the following: healthcare system; CPT/HCPCS code; diagnosis & procedure code; claims and insurance process; Clinical Data Management concepts; Application testing concept; Study Data Tabulation Model (SDTM); Life Science Hub (LSH); Data Management Workbench (DMW); Python; SQL; Data analysis & visualization; Machine Learning; Superset Apache; Jupyter Notebook; PostgreSQL; data blending; data extraction; Predictive Model Machine Learning project; Cloud; Logistic Regression; Decision Tree; Tableau; R Programming Language; cloud computing; and Alteryx. Experience may be gained concurrently. Telecommute position. Must reside within the United States. Various unanticipated locations throughout the United States. Position is part of employee referral program. Salary: $117,975.78 - $155,500.00/year This position is also incentive eligible. Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here: http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers Equal Opportunity Employer: Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law. Working at Vizient means making a difference in today’s dynamic health care industry, every day. Our mission is to connect health care organizations and providers with the knowledge, solutions and expertise that enable them to accelerate their clinical and operational performance. Vizient is based in Dallas and has offices in 20 metropolitan areas across the United States. We have 4,000 employees with a breadth of expertise, experience and compassion, who are eager to develop and implement solutions that advance health care for the greater good. Across our enterprise of companies, we have the scale and depth to deliver exponential impact across the continuum of care: Provista – Proven supply chain partner specializing in extended, diagnostic and preventive care facilities, including surgery centers, home health and senior living Apexus – The exclusive contractor for 340B Drug Pricing Program, managed by the Health Resources and Services Administration aptitude – The industry’s first online direct contracting market, supporting self-contracting activity between hospitals and suppliers. Sg2 - Providing a unique blend of analytics, intelligence, consulting and education to enable health system leaders to integrate strategic growth and performance across the continuum of care. Click here for Vizient Careers Home Page.
Salary : $117,976 - $155,500