Data Reporting & UAT Analyst – Contract Position

BranCore Technologies, LLC; Richmond, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

BranCore Technologies, LLC is seeking a Data Analyst with Medicaid/Medicare experience to review design documents, map data between interfaces, and support testing and reporting for data pipelines. The role involves collaborating with business, QA, and development teams to ensure accurate data and timely issue resolutions.

The candidate will work on on-site activities in Richmond, VA, with data governance and dashboard development using BI tools. Strong SQL and vendor coordination are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Medicaid or Medicare or related health system data roles.
• Experience writing and validating data tests and reports.
• Strong SQL development skills in Teradata environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, execute, and document test cases and validation scripts for data pipelines.
• Write complex SQL queries to pull operational and analytical reports from data warehouse.
• Act as technical liaison with data warehouse vendor and coordinate issue resolutions.
• Create dashboards and visuals using Tableau/Power BI or Looker from business requirements.
• Maintain data definitions and documentation for governance and transparency.
• Collaborate with business, QA, and development teams on go-live issues.

Tools

Teradata

BTEQ

SQL

Tableau

Power BI

Looker

Job description

Contract Length: 8 months with the possibility of extending based on performance.
Richmond, VA candidates are required.

On site work is required. Right now, they anticipate 1 /day week ON SITE required once the candidate starts. Then the weekly expectation/regular team schedule can be discussed later.

ABOUT THE ROLE

This role will review the Design documents, proactively identify requirement gaps and issues, map data between interface systems, assist lead analyst in project collaboration, documentation and coordination, review and contribute to the test plans, work with stakeholders to Build Test Scenarios, provide demonstrations to Internal teams and Project Stakeholders, work closely with Business, QAs, Dev team on project related pre and post go live issues, develop workflows, provide solutions, track issues end to end, ensure timely resolutions and accurate delegation of ownership.

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

Experience with Medicaid or Medicare or other health systems. Required, 5 Years

Exp working with end users/customers to understand and develop requirements for technical solutions to meet business needs. Required, 5 Years

Exp w/analyzing project requirements and developing detailed technical specifications. Required, 5 Years

Exp with technical developers to strategize solutions to align with business requirements. Required, 5 Years

Recent SQL writing experience. Required, 5 Years

Exp w/facilitating customer requirements gathering meetings/sessions/JAD Sessions. Required, 5 Years

Working knowledge of relational databases/database structures. Required, 5 Years

Requirements Traceability. Required, 5 Years

BI reporting tools. Required, 5 Years

Developing test data and test scenarios. Required, 5 Years

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience. Required