Senior Healthcare Data Analyst

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Overview:

Overview

The Senior Healthcare Data Analyst provides advanced data analysis and reporting support to drive operational, clinical, and strategic decision-making.

This role is responsible for developing and maintaining dashboards, reports, and analytical solutions that monitor program performance and support business objectives.

The analyst partners closely with stakeholders to define reporting requirements, perform ad-hoc analyses, and promote self-service analytics capabilities.

This position supports key service lines such as Hospital Medicine, Stroke Regulatory Reporting, and Neurosciences, ensuring alignment of provider reporting and performance metrics across the portfolio.

The role also contributes to data quality, data stewardship, and the identification of new metrics to enhance reporting accuracy and insights.

As a subject matter expert, the Healthcare Data Analyst Senior leverages strong analytical and technical skills to provide data-driven recommendations, support regulatory reporting, and enable performance improvement across clinical and operational domains.

This role also mentors junior analysts and collaborates with internal teams and external partners to deliver impactful analytics solutions.

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Data Analytics, Healthcare Administration, or a related field (Required)

Certification/Licensure

• No specific certification or licensure requirements
• Relevant certifications in data analytics, SQL, or BI tools (Preferred)

Experience

• Strong proficiency in SQL for data extraction, transformation, and analysis
• Experience developing dashboards and reports using Power BI or similar visualization tools
• Experience working with Databricks or similar data platforms (Preferred)
• Experience in healthcare analytics, including clinical, operational, or regulatory reporting
• Ability to perform ad-hoc analysis, define business requirements, and deliver actionable insights
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to translate data into meaningful recommendations

Additional Qualifications (Preferred)

• Experience supporting hospital medicine, stroke regulatory reporting, neurosciences, or related service lines
• Knowledge of healthcare data domains such as quality reporting, population health, or regulatory compliance
• Experience mentoring junior analysts and supporting analytics best practices

Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.

In support of our mission “to improve health every day,” this is a tobacco-free environment.

For positions that are available as remote work, Sentara Health employs associates in the following states:

Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.