Senior Healthcare Data Analyst: Lead Health Analytics

Joint Commission International; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Joint Commission seeks a Senior Healthcare Data Analyst to support research and analytics initiatives informing quality improvement, accreditation strategy, and learning systems. You will work directly with senior leadership to prepare and analyze complex health care data, contribute to manuscripts for journals, memos, and stakeholder briefs.

The role demands hands-on data manipulation, rigorous statistical analyses, reproducible workflows, and effective communication across technical and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field with healthcare research experience OR Master's with 2+ years of healthcare research experience.
• Advanced proficiency in R, Stata, or Python and experience with modern analytics environments (RStudio, VS Code).
• Advanced database management using SQL (SQL Server Management Studio).
• Experience building/maintaining analytical data pipelines and large healthcare datasets.
• Experience with version control (Git/GitHub) and reproducible research practices.
• Experience with health outcomes data, claims data, or quality metrics.
• Strong communication and collaboration across projects.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, clean, merge, and manage healthcare datasets from multiple sources.
• Conduct complex statistical analyses and contribute to reproducible analytic workflows.
• Own analytical deliverables for defined research objectives within larger studies.
• Develop and document GitHub-based workflows and QA processes.
• Coordinate with researchers to align deliverables with study timelines.
• Present data acquisition, quality, and findings to technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

R

Python

Stata

SQL

Git/GitHub

Data cleaning

Data visualization

Statistics

Research methods

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

Master's degree in a related discipline

Tools

RStudio

Visual Studio Code

SQL Server Management Studio

GitHub

Job description

Joint Commission seeks a Senior Healthcare Data Analyst to support research and analytics initiatives informing quality improvement, accreditation strategy, and learning systems. You will work directly with senior leadership to prepare and analyze complex health care data, contribute to manuscripts for journals, memos, and stakeholder briefs.

The role demands hands-on data manipulation, rigorous statistical analyses, reproducible workflows, and effective communication across technical and