Senior Healthcare Data & Analytics Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Carson City (NV); 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 seeks a Senior Technical Business Analyst – Data & Analytics with Healthcare Experience to bridge business and technical teams driving healthcare data solutions. You will gather requirements, translate them into specs, and lead data analysis across claims, Medicare, and Medicaid domains using SQL and BigQuery.

You will collaborate with product owners, data engineers, and analytics teams in an Agile environment, creating user stories and acceptance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, information systems, CS, healthcare administration, or related field.
• Experience gathering and documenting requirements, and stakeholder management in healthcare data projects.
• Experience with claims, Medicare, Medicaid data domains and data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Gather, analyze, and document business, functional, and technical requirements for healthcare data initiatives.
• Partner with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to define data requirements and reporting needs.
• Conduct requirements workshops and define project scope and solution requirements.
• Create and manage user stories, acceptance criteria, processes, and documentation.
• Perform data analysis using SQL, MS SQL Server, and GCP/BigQuery for solutioning.
• Map, reconcile, and analyze data across systems and sources.
• Collaborate with data engineering, analytics, QA, and business teams to ensure delivery.
• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and backlog refinement.
• Coordinate UAT activities and support issue resolution.
• Manage risks, dependencies, and timelines aligning with business goals.
• Communicate status and recommendations to stakeholders and executives.
• Support end-to-end delivery ownership for data initiatives in healthcare.

Skills

Advanced SQL

MS SQL Server

GCP/BigQuery

User stories

Acceptance criteria

Agile/Scrum

Data analysis

Data mapping

Reconciliation

Stakeholder management

Communication

UAT coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Healthcare Administration, or related field

Tools

GitHub

VS Code

IBM Data Studio

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation seeks a Senior Technical Business Analyst – Data & Analytics with Healthcare Experience to bridge business and technical teams driving healthcare data solutions. You will gather requirements, translate them into specs, and lead data analysis across claims, Medicare, and Medicaid domains using SQL and BigQuery.

You will collaborate with product owners, data engineers, and analytics teams in an Agile environment, creating user stories and acceptance