Management and Program Analyst (Data Science)

Veterans Health Administration; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 104,000 - 136,000; Full time

Job summary

Veterans Health Administration in Los Angeles seeks a Management and Program Analyst (Data Science) to leverage large, multi-site datasets to create reports, dashboards, and tools supporting NCWI leadership. The role drives data-informed decisions across clinical and administrative domains.

Responsibilities include developing data extraction pipelines, dashboards, and analyses, as well as collaborating with informatics teams to monitor care processes and patient safety.

Qualifications

• Experience with large datasets and data governance
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate complex data insights to leadership

Responsibilities

• Act as authoritative technical expert on data management, data mining, and data representation to inform monitoring and improvement of programs.
• Advise and participate in health informatics system development to monitor clinical care processes, outcomes, and patient safety.
• Design, develop and support infrastructure for data extraction, reporting interfaces, storage, and presentation of clinical and administrative data.
• Design, implement, and maintain database applications, dashboards, data reporting systems, data sets, and databases from multiple sources.
• Identify trends in homeless program data and provide statistical analyses to support metrics and performance measures.
• Demonstrate effective written and oral communication with data visualization and reporting capabilities.
• Work schedule varies; compressed/flexible arrangements may be available.

Skills

Data analysis

Data visualization

SQL

Python

Statistics

Job description

Management and Program Analyst (Data Science)

• Department: Department of Veterans Affairs

This position serves as a Data Analyst in the National Center for Warrior Independence (NCWI) at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. This position will use large databases and complex multi-site, multi-source datasets to create reports, tools, and dashboards to directly support the decision-making and reporting needs of NCWI leadership and staff.

Key Responsibilities

Total Rewards VA Benefits Key job duties include, but are not limited to the following: Incumbent serves as an authoritative technical expert and consultant to NCWI group leaders on data management, data mining, and data representation techniques that inform the monitoring, evaluation, and improvement of programs.

Advise and participate in the development of health informatics systems that can be used to appropriately monitor clinical care processes, outcomes, and patient safety. Design, develop and support the technology infrastructure for the extraction, report interface, creation, storage, and seamless presentation of clinical and administrative data available throughout VHA.

Design, implement, and maintain database applications, dashboards, data reporting systems, data sets, and databases that synthesize clinical and administrative data from multiple sources into meaningful and useful information and knowledge for business analysis purposes. Will work with the NCWI Clinical Informatics team to create a repository of reports and tools.

Data sources for decision support tools will include VistA, CDW, EDIS, MCA, ARC, FMS, PAID, and other data sources. Performs regular analytical reviews of facility data. Identifies operational, clinical, and financial scenarios for analysis and recommends ways to optimize efficiency, cost management, resource utilization, and risk reduction. Develops logic and writes code to extract data from CDW, VistA and other local or national databases.

Identify trends and analyzes homeless program data. Provides statistical analyses in support of current metrics and development of new performance/operational measures. Participates in defining strategic goals, developing, and implementing administrative and clinic programs, and educating staff regarding processes related to data management, research, assisting in measurement of those goals, and contributing to the success of those projects.

Demonstrates skill in effective written and oral communication, to include expertise in data visualization and expert knowledge of a broad range of computer-based programs for communication, report generation, and presentations. Compiles final reports, including comprehensive analyses. Other duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Various tours of duty based on the needs of the service. Compressed/Flexible: May be available based on the needs of the service.

Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized Position Description Title/PD#: Management and Program Analyst (Data Science)/15015A Telework: Not available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Physical Requirements: The work is mostly sedentary.

However, the nature of the work often requires the incumbent to work long hours to meet project completion and to devise solutions to unexpected, serious problems. The incumbent is subject to stress due to extended periods of intense mental concentration and the frequent need for expeditious response to critical situations

Requirements & Education

There is no educational substitution at this grade level. Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/.

If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.

Which agency is hiring for this position?

This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.

What is the salary for this position?

The posted pay range is $104349 – $135657/yr.

What is the application deadline?

Applications close on 2026-09-25.

How many openings are available?

There are 2 openings for this position.

Who is eligible to apply?

This position is open under the 'Fed Transition' hiring path.