Principal Data Intelligence Analyst (Clinical Operations) - Hybrid

Principal Data Intelligence Analyst (Clinical Operations) - Hybrid

Job ID 21742 Location Los Angeles, California, United States Job Category Information Technology Date posted 11/04/2026

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Job Description

Grow your career at Cedars-Sinai!

Building on a legacy of innovation, Cedars-Sinai is harnessing rapidly evolving breakthroughs in AI technology to enhance patient care, improve efficiency, advance scientific discovery, and cultivate greater physician and staff wellbeing.

The organization's Healthtech excellence was acknowledged again, this time by the esteemed "CHIME Digital Health Most Wired" recognition program. Cedars-Sinai was assigned a Level 10-the most prestigious level of certification-among more than 300 surveyed healthcare organizations. Cedars-Sinai netted high scores across multiple verticals and particularly excelled in areas of infrastructure, interoperability, and population health innovation.

Why work here?

Beyond an outstanding benefit package and competitive salaries, we take pride in hiring the best, most committed employees. Our staff reflects the culturally and ethnically diverse community we serve. They are proof of our dedication to creating a multifaceted, inclusive environment that fuels innovation and the gold standard of patient care we strive for.

What you will be doing:

The Principal Data Intelligence Analyst (Clinical Operations) is independently responsible for engaging in strategic data/analytic projects. Analyzes sophisticated problems and issues using data from internal and external sources. Considered highly skilled and proficient in subject area. Conducts sophisticated work important to Cedars-Sinai. Provide consultation to users and lead cross-functional teams to address data and analytic issues.

• Lead strategic clinical operations analytics projects involving quality, safety, access, throughput, productivity, utilization, staffing, financial performance, and patient experience.
• Partner with clinical and operational stakeholders to define business questions, success measures, analytic requirements, and reporting priorities.
• Facilitate consensus-building sessions with physicians, operational leaders, clinical staff, and end users.
• Develop complex, optimized SQL queries against enterprise healthcare data, including Epic Clarity and Caboodle.
• Extract, transform, validate, and analyze large clinical, operational, and financial datasets.
• Use Python for exploratory data analysis, data quality assessment, statistical analysis, automation, data mining, and predictive modeling.
• Translate Epic clinical workflows and data structures into meaningful operational measures and actionable insights.
• Design data models, reusable analytic datasets, reporting specifications, and scalable data products.
• Develop and support Tableau dashboards and other visualization solutions that communicate complex clinical and operational concepts clearly.
• Perform requirements documentation, source-to-target mapping, data profiling, testing, quality assurance, and reconciliation with report developers and data engineering teams.
• Identify data quality issues, investigate root causes, and establish appropriate validation and governance practices.
• Develop predictive and prescriptive analytics to support operational planning, risk identification, resource allocation, and performance improvement.
• Lead end-user training, adoption, documentation, and post-deployment support.
• Mentor analysts and peers and provide technical and functional leadership on cross-functional initiatives.
• Local candidates or those willing to relocate to Los Angeles are preferred; remote candidates may be considered in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, or Texas*

Qualifications

Experience Requirements:

Ten (10) plus years of experience in data analytics, business intelligence, healthcare analytics, clinical operations, or a related discipline.

Demonstrated experience supporting clinical operations, healthcare performance improvement, or quantitative analysis of quality, efficiency, access, utilization, or productivity measures.

Advanced SQL skills, including complex joins, subqueries, common table expressions, window functions, performance optimization, data validation, and reconciliation.

Strong hands-on Python experience for data analysis, automation, data mining, statistical analysis, and modeling.

Demonstrated experience with Epic Clarity and Epic Caboodle, including the ability to understand Epic data structures and map clinical workflows to analytic requirements.

Experience performing the full analytics delivery lifecycle: requirements gathering, data discovery, exploratory analysis, data modeling, development, testing, deployment, documentation, training, and support.

Experience developing predictive or prescriptive analytics.

Experience with Tableau or a comparable enterprise visualization platform.

Experience with Microsoft Fabric, including one or more of the following: Fabric Data Factory, Lakehouse, Warehouse, notebooks, pipelines, semantic models, Power BI, or governance capabilities, highly preferred.

Educational Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Health Informatics, Business Analytics, or a related field.

Epic Clarity and/or Caboodle Certification highly preferred.

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Req ID 21742 Working Title Principal Data Intelligence Analyst (Clinical Operations) - Hybrid Department EIS MNS Decision Support Business Entity Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Job Category Information Technology Job Specialty Bus Intelligence/Reporting Overtime Status EXEMPT Primary Shift Day Shift Duration 8 hour Base Pay $143,500 - $208,500

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Diversity and Inclusion at Cedars-Sinai

We are caretakers and innovators committed to the pursuit of equitable healthcare. But health equity is not possible without representation. Our commitment to diversity goes beyond demographics or checking boxes. Our people must reflect the diverse identities, experiences and geographies of the communities and patients we serve - because that's what our patients, colleagues and communities deserve Quality Care and Research-For All, By All.

Our compensation philosophy

We offer a competitive compensation package for our employees. The base pay range shown generally applies to the greater Los Angeles area and may vary based on work location. Our range takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including knowledge/skills: relevant experience and training, education/certifications/licensure; and other business and organizational factors. The base pay range does not include any incentive payments that may be applicable to a role. Pay Transparency Non-Discrimination Provision (PDF) .

Cedars-Sinai is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Cedars-Sinai does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of the race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition (cancer-related or genetic characteristics or any genetic information), marital status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age (40 or older), military and/or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal or state law. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at Applicant_Accommodation@cshs.org and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.

Cedars-Sinai will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories, in accordance with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.

At Cedars-Sinai, we are dedicated to the safety, health and wellbeing of our patients and employees. This includes protecting our patients from communicable diseases, such as influenza (flu). For this reason, we require that all new employees receive a flu vaccine based on the seasonal availability of flu vaccine (typically during September through April each year) as a condition of employment, and annually thereafter as a condition of continued employment, subject to medical exemption or religious accommodation. For the same reason, you may also be required to receive other vaccines as a condition of employment. Cedars-Sinai reserves the right to make modifications to its required list of vaccines as required by law and/or policy.

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