Data Analyst

JOB TITLE: Data Analyst

REPORTS TO: Director of Data Strategy & Reporting

DEPARTMENT: Data Strategy & Reporting

HOURS: 40 Hours Monday – Friday 9:00a – 5:00p

FLSA STATUS: Exempt

JOB TYPE: Full-Time

RATE: $90k – 125k

About Healthix

Healthix is the largest public health information exchange (HIE) in New York State, securely connecting thousands of healthcare providers, hospitals, health plans, and community organizations to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of care. Through the secure exchange of health information, Healthix helps ensure that clinicians, care teams, and public health partners have access to the data they need to make informed decisions and deliver better outcomes for the communities they serve.

As part of our ongoing organizational transformation, Healthix is expanding its focus beyond data exchange to making health information more actionable and impactful for healthcare providers, community partners, and public health initiatives. This transformation reflects our commitment to strengthening community partnerships, improving health equity, and supporting innovative approaches that connect healthcare with community-based services.

Through initiatives such as Healthix Connects, our internal volunteer and community engagement program, we are deepening our relationships with local organizations and creating opportunities for our team to actively support healthier, safer communities.

Joining Healthix means becoming part of a mission-driven organization that is shaping the future of health information sharing while building stronger connections between healthcare systems and the communities they serve.

The Role

The Data Analyst supports Healthix’s data strategy by ensuring the collection, quality, accuracy, accessibility, and effective use of healthcare data. This role requires strong technical and analytical skills, including advanced SQL, database design, data integration, and reporting, along with the ability to collaborate with healthcare professionals and business stakeholders to support data-driven decision-making.

The Data Analyst is responsible for maintaining, improving, cleansing, and analyzing data within the organization’s operational and analytics databases. Working closely with the Data Strategy team, the individual supports the development of data pipelines, data warehouse solutions, and reporting tools to ensure healthcare information is accurate, reliable, and accessible.

As Healthix expands its initiatives, the role will increasingly support projects that require clinical insight and interpretation of healthcare data. Candidates with a clinical background, such as nursing, medicine, or other direct patient care experience, combined with strong analytical capabilities, are particularly encouraged to apply.

The ideal candidate will be able to bridge technical data analysis and clinical understanding, helping translate complex healthcare information into meaningful insights that support healthcare providers, organizational initiatives, population health, and improved patient outcomes.

The Data Analyst also contributes to data governance, quality assurance, database optimization, ETL processes, and the development of scalable data solutions across Healthix’s technology environment.

Key Responsibilities

·       Enhance and streamline data and pipeline architecture to improve data flow and collection.

·       Partner with software developers, database architects, and data analysts to support data initiatives and ensure reliable data delivery.

·       Independently address the data requirements of multiple teams, systems, and products.

·       Refine or redesign Healthix’s data architecture to enable next-generation products and data capabilities.

·       Build and maintain scalable data pipelines and reporting solutions to support growing data volumes, performance, and complex queries across Databricks, MS SQL Server, and InterSystems HealthShare.

·       Work with Data Strategy and Business teams to improve data models and increase data accessibility for business intelligence.

·       Implement monitoring processes to safeguard data quality, accuracy, and availability for key stakeholders.

·       Develop queries, support reporting needs, and tailor reporting solutions to enable data-driven decision-making.

·       Develop and execute unit and data validation tests while maintaining accurate documentation; perform data analysis to troubleshoot issues, support feasibility assessments, evaluate health outcomes, and resolve data-related problems.

·       Provide general reporting and project support across the organization.

·       Ensure reporting meets standards for reliability, accuracy, completeness, and compliance.

·       Support the development, ETL processes, and maintenance of company data assets and data models; design data integrations and data quality frameworks.

·       Evaluate open-source and vendor data-lineage tools and contribute to long-term data platform architecture planning across IT and Business teams.

·       Assist in developing an integrated data warehouse to provide a comprehensive healthcare dataset.

·       Analyze and interpret clinical and healthcare data to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities that support patient care, population health, and organizational initiatives.

·       Collaborate with clinical professionals, healthcare partners, and internal stakeholders to ensure data analysis and reporting accurately reflect clinical workflows, terminology, and healthcare outcomes.

·       Apply clinical knowledge, where applicable, to support the interpretation of patient-level data, healthcare utilization patterns, and quality-of-care measures.

·       Translate complex clinical and analytical findings into actionable insights and recommendations for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

Qualifications, Skills and Competencies

·       5+ years of experience in a Data Analyst role, with a graduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Healthcare Informatics, Informatics, Information Systems, or a related field. IBM Certified Data Engineer or Google Certified Professional is preferred.

·       Experience with healthcare data, including HL7, CCDAs, MS SQL Server, Databricks, Tableau, InterSystems HealthShare, and Cache databases.

·       Advanced SQL knowledge and experience with relational databases, query authoring, and familiarity with various databases.

·       Proficient in database design principles, including relationships, normalization, structures, indexes, views, and analyzing database requirements.

·       Experience in building and optimizing big data pipelines, architectures, and data sets.

·       Strong analytical skills and experience in performing root cause analysis on data and processes to answer business questions and identify improvement opportunities.

·       Experience in developing processes for data transformation, structures, metadata, dependency, and workload management.

·       Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and scalable big data stores.

·       Proficient in big data tools such as Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka.

·       Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases.

·       Strong programming skills with languages like Python, Java, C++, and Scala.

·       Ability to architect end-to-end ETL pipelines.

·       Experience with AWS services and BI tools like Tableau.

·       Strong quantitative, analytical, process development, facilitation, and organizational skills.

·       Excellent documentation and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Clinical Qualifications

·       Clinical background in nursing, medicine, or a related healthcare discipline, combined with professional experience in data analytics, clinical informatics, healthcare reporting, or population health.

·       Registered Nurse (RN), Physician (MD/DO), or other relevant clinical credentials are preferred but not required.

·       Experience analyzing and interpreting clinical data, electronic health records (EHRs), patient outcomes, healthcare utilization, and clinical quality measures.

·       Understanding of clinical workflows, healthcare terminology, and the relationship between healthcare data and patient care delivery.

·       Experience collaborating with clinicians, healthcare administrators, and technical teams to translate clinical needs into analytical solutions.

·       Familiarity with population health, quality improvement, care coordination, or healthcare outcomes analysis is a plus.