Senior Data & Analytics Business Analyst — Healthcare (Remote)

Cognizant; Annapolis (MD); Remote; USD 64,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Technical Business Analyst – Data & Analytics with Healthcare Experience to bridge business needs and technical delivery across healthcare data solutions.

You will gather requirements, write specs, perform advanced SQL data analysis, and collaborate in Agile teams using BigQuery and MS SQL Server to support reporting and decision-making.

Remote role in the United States; visa sponsorship is not offered for this position.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• Experience in healthcare business processes and healthcare data analysis.
• Advanced SQL skills with MS SQL Server.
• Experience with GCP and BigQuery for data analysis and validation.
• Experience creating user stories, acceptance criteria, and requirements documentation.
• Strong Agile/Scrum experience in delivery teams.
• Experience mapping data, reconciling, and performing impact analysis.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Gather, analyze, and document requirements for healthcare data initiatives.
• Lead requirements workshops and define project scope and solution requirements.
• Create and manage user stories, acceptance criteria, and process flows.
• Perform data analysis using SQL, MS SQL Server, and BigQuery.
• Coordinate UAT activities and support issue resolution.
• Collaborate with data engineering, analytics, QA, and business teams.

Skills

SQL

MS SQL Server

GCP BigQuery

Requirements gathering

Agile Scrum

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

UAT coordination

Healthcare data

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/Information Systems/CS/Healthcare

Tools

GitHub

VS Code

IBM Data Studio

Airflow

Tidal

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Technical Business Analyst – Data & Analytics with Healthcare Experience to bridge business needs and technical delivery across healthcare data solutions.

You will gather requirements, write specs, perform advanced SQL data analysis, and collaborate in Agile teams using BigQuery and MS SQL Server to support reporting and decision-making.

Remote role in the United States; visa sponsorship is not offered for this position.