Senior Medicaid Data Analyst

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching

• Dental insurance

• Health insurance

• Vision insurance

Title: Senior Medicaid Data Analyst

Location: Richmond, VA, (Hybrid)- 1 /day week ON SITE required once the candidate starts. Then the weekly expectation / regular team schedule can be discussed later

Position Type: Contract

Interview Mode: Either Phone or In Person

*MUST be able to pick up equipment IN PERSON. *

Key Responsibilities

• Data Testing & Validation: Design, execute, and document comprehensive test cases and validation scripts to ensure data accuracy, integrity, and consistency across data pipelines, ETL processes, and reports.

• Data Extraction & Reporting: Write, optimize, and execute complex SQL queries against our data warehouse (in Teradata) to pull scheduled and ad-hoc operational and analytical reports.

• Vendor Collaboration: Act as the primary technical point of contact for our data warehouse vendor, escalating performance bottlenecks, troubleshooting data loading issues, and tracking resolutions.

• Reporting & Visualization: Translate business requirements into intuitive, actionable data visualizations and dashboards using tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or Looker

• Data Governance & Documentation: Maintain documentation of data definitions, reporting logic, testing procedures, and data warehouse schemas to ensure organization-wide transparency.

• Preferred Experience: Working knowledge of state and federal Medicaid policy and regulatory reporting requirements preferred.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Domain Knowledge: 5+ years of experience with Medicaid or Medicare. Prior experience working on federal or state legislative policy implementations (e.g., CMS rules, HR1 provisions, Medicaid expansion/unwinding efforts).

• Technical Experience: 3+ years of experience as a Data Analyst, Data Quality Analyst, or similar role with a heavy focus on data testing and SQL development.

• Technical Expertise: Advanced SQL skills specifically within Teradata environments (including performance tuning, BTEQ, and Teradata SQL Assistant).

• Testing & QA: Demonstrated experience writing test plans, performing data validation, and identifying data anomalies or discrepancies.

• Collaboration: Experience working closely with third-party vendors, IT infrastructure teams, or database administrators to manage system updates and resolve issues.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Analytics, Mathematics, or a related field.

Additional skills/experience should include:

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communications skills, with a demonstrated ability to prepare and present reports on complex concepts and findings to all levels of the organization.

• Strong quantitative analysis skills, including working knowledge of SAS, SQL, data mining software, statistical validation techniques, predictive modeling construction and data visualization.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Access, Excel, Power Point and Word.

• Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, implement, and monitor large scale/time sensitive projects; and to work collaboratively across teams.

• Must be well organized, with the ability to prioritize work and possess a great attention to detail and accuracy and an ability to complete multiple complex assignments within short time frames and with minimal direction.

• Experience working with Medicaid eligibility and enrollment data, health plans’ operations and data (encounters, claims, clinical quality, etc.) strongly preferred.

• Working knowledge of state and federal Medicaid policy and regulatory reporting requirements preferred.

Required/Desired Skills

Skill | Required /Desired | Amount | Actual Years of Experience Experience with Medicaid or Medicare or other health systems | Required | 5 |  Exp working with end users/customers to understand and develop requirements for technical solutions to meet business needs | Required | 5 |  Exp w/analyzing project requirements and developing detailed technical specifications | Required | 5 |  Exp with technical developers to strategize solutions to align with business requirements | Required | 5 |  Recent SQL writing experience | Required | 5 |  Exp w/facilitating customer requirements gathering meetings/sessions/JAD Sessions | Required | 5 |  working knowledge of relational databases/database structures | Required | 5 |  Requirements Traceability | Required | 5 |  BI reporting tools | Required | 5 |  developing test data and test scenarios | Required | 5 |  Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience | Required | | 

Flexible work from home options available.