Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Government Employees Health Association, Inc. (G.E.H.A) is a nonprofit member association that provides health and dental benefits to federal employees and retirees. The Business Data Analyst will identify problem statements, gather requirements, and document decisions to support business stakeholders, ensuring alignment with the Enterprise Data strategy.
Responsibilities
- Reviews, analyzes, and creates detailed documentation of business rules and data needs
- Coordinates discussions with business/stakeholders and cross functional/technical teams to capture and review use cases, requirements, and another technical document. Ensure all business requirements are accurately reflected and accounted for (including data lineage and transformations)
- Collaborates with developers and architects to define and document the data solution to meet needs outlined in the business rules and needs
- Responsible for ensuring business/stakeholder approval, which passes audit scrutiny, for data solutions delivered in a production state
- Documents data ingestion, transformation, consumption, and sharing including workflows, data models, data classification, and steps required to curate trusted data
- Responsible for ensuring all documentation reflects the current state and outstanding issues so that business requirements reflect proper state of data
- Support the cloud data framework that aligns with the Enterprise Data Strategy, policies, and organizational goals
- Ensures that the delivered data and processes fulfill the documented business rules and data needs
- Ensure that all items follow company change management process
- Participate in scrum, backlog grooming, refinement, planning and review sessions
- Presents documentation of business rules, data needs, technical documentation, and data models
- Champions department standards for documentation and ensures that all assigned projects meet compliance and can withstand audit scrutiny
- Peer Reviews documentation of business rules, data needs, technical documentation, and data models
- Create data models based on the data solution decisions and conceptual models in collaboration with the data architect and developer
- Other duties as assigned
Skills
- Requires 3-5 years of relevant technical or business work experience with demonstrated experience within healthcare industry or data and analytics
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Healthcare Administration, Mathematics, or a related field or comparable experience. Additional years of qualifying work experience may be considered in lieu of formal education
- Demonstrated Data Query Skills
- Competent in Microsoft Azure Data tools or Snowflake Technologies
- Background and experience in Data Analysis, Data Profiling, Data Transformation and Data Reporting
- Experience problem solving and root cause analysis
- Understanding of CI/CD Pipelines
- Competent in Agile and Scrum processes
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
- Experience with compliance, security and regulatory requirements
- Prior knowledge of, or willingness to learn, healthcare and analytics industries
- Preferred fundamentals certification in Azure, Snowflake, Databricks, or comparable cloud platform or technology
Benefits
- Competitive pay/salary ranges
- Incentive plan
- Health/Vision/Dental benefits effective day one
- 401(k) retirement plan: company match – dollar for dollar up to 4% employee contribution (pretax or Roth options) plus a 6% annual company contribution
- Robust employee well-being program
- Paid Time Off
- Personal Community Enrichment Time
- Company-provided Basic Life and AD&D
- Company-provided Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
- Tuition Assistance Program
- Hybrid and work-from-home options for many of our roles
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