Senior Health Data & Analytics BA — Remote

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Cheyenne (WY); Remote; USD 64,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Senior Technical Business Analyst – Data & Analytics with Healthcare Experience to bridge business stakeholders and technical teams, delivering healthcare data solutions and enterprise reporting initiatives.

You will leverage SQL, MS SQL Server, and GCP/BigQuery for data validation and analysis, drive requirements discovery, write user stories, and participate in Agile delivery to ensure timely, high-quality outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field.
• Experience gathering and documenting requirements with stakeholders.
• Healthcare domain experience and knowledge of claims, Medicare, Medicaid.
• Advanced SQL skills with MS SQL Server.
• Experience with GCP/BigQuery for analytics and data validation.
• Proven ability to write user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional specs.
• Strong Agile/Scrum understanding and participation in delivery teams.
• Experience data mapping, reconciliation, impact analysis and root cause analysis.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience coordinating UAT and end-to-end delivery.

Responsibilities

• Gather, analyze, and document business, functional, and technical requirements for healthcare data and analytics initiatives.
• Partner with stakeholders to understand healthcare processes, data needs, and reporting requirements.
• Lead workshops to define project scope and solution requirements.
• Create and manage user stories, acceptance criteria, and process flows.
• Perform data analysis with SQL, MS SQL Server, and GCP/BigQuery for validation and solutioning.
• Conduct data mapping, reconciliation, impact analysis, and root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with data engineering, analytics, QA, and business teams for delivery.
• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and backlog refinement.
• Coordinate UAT and assist issue resolution.
• Manage risks, dependencies, and timelines aligned with business objectives.

Skills

Business Analysis

Requirements gathering

Healthcare data analysis

Claims/Medicare/Medicaid domain

Advanced SQL

GCP/BigQuery

User stories & acceptance criteria

Agile/Scrum

Data mapping & reconciliation

UAT coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business/IS/CS/Healthcare

Tools

GitHub

VS Code

IBM Data Studio

Apache Airflow

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Senior Technical Business Analyst – Data & Analytics with Healthcare Experience to bridge business stakeholders and technical teams, delivering healthcare data solutions and enterprise reporting initiatives.

You will leverage SQL, MS SQL Server, and GCP/BigQuery for data validation and analysis, drive requirements discovery, write user stories, and participate in Agile delivery to ensure timely, high-quality outcomes.