Senior Healthcare Data Analyst & Analytics Platform Lead

Joint Commission; United States; On-site; USD 96,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Joint Commission is seeking a Senior Data Analyst to support a data-driven certification model across healthcare. You will analyze large healthcare datasets, develop quality measures, and translate findings into actionable recommendations for executives and product teams.

You will design scalable data pipelines, work with Databricks, and communicate complex analytics to diverse audiences while contributing to strategic decision-making and product development initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Health Informatics, Epidemiology, Public Health, Mathematics, Healthcare Analytics, Economics or a related field.
• 3–7+ years of experience in healthcare analytics, healthcare data management, healthcare data science, or a related analytical role.
• Experience working with healthcare claims data, including Medicare, Medicaid, commercial, administrative, or value-based care datasets.
• Strong SQL skills and experience optimizing queries for large datasets.
• Experience in performing analytics in a cloud-based computing environment, such as Databricks.
• Proficiency in R (preferred) or Python for data management, analysis, and reproducible workflows.
• Experience building analytical datasets, performing data quality validation, and documenting assumptions and limitations.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex findings effectively to diverse audiences.
• Experience working collaboratively within cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Analyze large healthcare datasets, including claims, administrative, clinical, and other real-world data sources.
• Support development, testing, validation, and implementation of quality measures, certification criteria, and performance indicators.
• Evaluate measure reliability, validity, risk adjustment approaches, benchmarking methods, and performance variation.
• Conduct exploratory analyses to identify opportunities for new healthcare quality, safety, and certification products.
• Support environmental scans and market assessments of healthcare measures, datasets, and benchmarking programs.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable analytical datasets and data pipelines.
• Work with cloud-based data platforms, including Databricks and related modern data architecture tools.
• Perform data ingestion, transformation, validation, and quality assurance across multiple healthcare data sources.
• Contribute to reusable data assets, documented data models, and reproducible analytical workflows.
• Support implementation of healthcare interoperability standards and emerging data exchange frameworks.
• Translate complex analytical findings into clear business and product recommendations.
• Develop executive-ready presentations, dashboards, visualizations, and written summaries.
• Partner with product, clinical, business, and technology teams to define analytical requirements and support strategic decision-making.
• Communicate statistical and technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Support advisory councils, leadership discussions, and product development initiatives with data-driven insights.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Data Science or related field

Tools

Databricks

Power BI

Tableau

Shiny

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Joint Commission is seeking a Senior Data Analyst to support a data-driven certification model across healthcare. You will analyze large healthcare datasets, develop quality measures, and translate findings into actionable recommendations for executives and product teams.

You will design scalable data pipelines, work with Databricks, and communicate complex analytics to diverse audiences while contributing to strategic decision-making and product development initiatives.