QMS Data Analyst - Medicaid Analytics & Data Quality

State-of-Iow; Des Moines (IA); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, and Vision

Paid Time Off

Retirement Plans

Flexible Spending Accounts

Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Employee Discount Programs

Job summary

The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seeks a QMS Data Analyst to enhance statewide data quality and analytics strategy for Medicaid. You will collaborate across programs, compliance, and IT to build scalable data solutions that improve health outcomes for Iowans.

Responsibilities include building analytic models, data acquisition/integration, and ensuring governance, privacy, and data exchange reliability.

Qualifications

• Six years of full-time work experience in business/data/statistical analytics, economic research, or data science.
• Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a degree in business analytics, economics, data science, statistics, mathematics, MIS, or industrial management.
• Current, continuous experience in the state executive branch that includes eighteen months of full-time work as a Data Analyst 1.
• Unofficial transcripts are required to verify education; attach to your application.
• All of the following (a and b): four years of education and/or full-time experience in analytics, plus two years of graduate-level education/experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale analytic models to support quality monitoring.
• Develop data pipelines and reporting tools in collaboration with DOM-DoIT.
• Create SQL-based data extracts from the Medicaid Data Warehouse.
• Assess new reporting needs and recommend improvements.
• Consolidate and maintain data documentation and metadata.

Skills

SQL

Analytical skills

Statistical analysis

Collaboration

Data governance

Data quality

Automation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in analytics/economics/data science

Tools

Microsoft SQL

Job description

The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seeks a QMS Data Analyst to enhance statewide data quality and analytics strategy for Medicaid. You will collaborate across programs, compliance, and IT to build scalable data solutions that improve health outcomes for Iowans.

Responsibilities include building analytic models, data acquisition/integration, and ensuring governance, privacy, and data exchange reliability.