Senior Population Health Management Analyst

Gainwell Technologies; Sacramento (CA); Remote; USD 74,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible vacation policy

401(k) employer match

Comprehensive health benefits

Educational assistance

Job summary

Gainwell Technologies in Sacramento is seeking a Senior Population Health Management Analyst to lead complex data analysis and translate client intent into actionable, testable solutions across stakeholders. You will coordinate analysis, drive milestones with Jira, and shape requirements while partnering with clinical, operational, and technical teams to improve health outcomes.

This role offers fully remote work options for most US locations, competitive benefits, and opportunities for learning

Qualifications

• Must have 6+ years in business analysis/healthcare analytics or related field.
• Experience leading cross-functional requirements with clinical, data, and tech stakeholders.
• Proficient Jira usage and requirement traceability.
• Strong ability to communicate complex decisions to clients and leadership.
• Knowledge of population health concepts and quality measures.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and analysis for complex population health capabilities.
• Plan and design business processes and service improvements.
• Facilitate client and internal workshops; resolve conflicts.
• Translate objectives into scope, milestones, and work packages.
• Mentor analysts and promote reusable standards.
• Ensure requirements traceability and testability.

Skills

Population health analytics

Jira discipline

Data analysis

Stakeholder communication

Mentoring analysts

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business/health administration/information systems/analytics

Advanced degree or certification valued

Tools

Jira

Excel

SQL

Job description

Location: Sacramento, CA, US, 95814-5511

Work Mode: Virtual (Exception only)

Great companies need great teams to propel their operations. Join the group that solves business challenges and enhances the way we work and grow. Working at Gainwell carries its rewards. You’ll have an incredible opportunity to grow your career in a company that values your contributions and puts a premium on work flexibility, learning, and career development.

Summary

As aSenior Population Health Management Analyst at Gainwell, you can contribute your skills as we harness the power of technology to help our clients improve the health and well-being of the members they serve — a community’s most vulnerable. Connect your passion with purpose, teaming with people who thrive on finding innovative solutions to some of healthcare’s biggest challenges. Here are the details on this position.

Leads complex business and data analysis for a technical population health management service and ensures that client intent is translated into implementable, testable, and operationally sustainable solutions. The senior analyst coordinates analysis across stakeholders and workstreams, shapes scope and milestones, governs requirements and traceability, and drives schedule-based execution through disciplined Jira management, risk identification, validation, and executive-ready communication.

Your role in our mission

• Lead discovery and analysis for complex or cross-functional population health capabilities, defining the problem, scope, stakeholders, outcomes, assumptions, dependencies, milestones, and analysis approach.
• Plan, design, and recommend business processes and service improvements; synthesize clinical, operational, technical, contractual, and data perspectives into clear options and recommendations.
• Facilitate complex client and internal workshops, resolve requirement conflicts, drive decisions, and communicate tradeoffs among value, feasibility, quality, risk, schedule, and operational impact.
• Translate broader program objectives into achievable analysis scope, work packages, milestones, estimates, owners, and completion criteria; coordinate priorities and dependencies across contributors who may not report directly to the role.
• Lead analysis of cohort identification, eligibility and attribution, risk stratification, care and quality gaps, outreach workflows, intervention tracking, outcomes, utilization, cost, and equity-oriented segmentation as applicable to the service.
• Ensure population and measure logic is unambiguous and reproducible, including denominators, numerators, exclusions, attribution, code sets, time windows, data sources, refresh cycles, versioning, and reconciliation controls.
• Evaluate multi-source healthcare data and analytics for lineage, semantic consistency, completeness, timeliness, bias or representativeness concerns, privacy, and fitness for intended clinical and operational use; make limitations visible in requirements and decisions.
• Create client and leadership communications that clearly explain decisions, progress, risks, dependencies, expected impacts, and recommended actions.

How you'll make an impact

• Create and govern high-quality requirements and analysis artifacts, including process models, conceptual and logical data requirements, data dictionaries, measure specifications, report definitions, user stories, acceptance criteria, and end-to-end traceability.
• Use Jira as the system of record for analysis delivery by structuring epics and stories, maintaining workflow hygiene, monitoring aging work and blockers, linking dependencies and evidence, and ensuring status and forecast information remain decision-ready.
• Monitor analysis progress against schedule and quality expectations; communicate metrics and status; identify scope, schedule, resource, data, and delivery risks; recommend mitigations; and elevate promptly when commitments are threatened.
• Own test strategy inputs and business validation for assigned capabilities; lead requirement coverage reviews, test planning, defect triage, user acceptance readiness, release decision support, and post-implementation validation.
• Coordinate technical reviews to ensure the intent of change persists through design, build, integration, testing, release, adoption, and operations; verify that non-functional, auditability, security, and support needs are addressed.
• Mentor analysts on analysis methods, population health concepts, Jira discipline, estimation, facilitation, testing, and stakeholder communication; review work products and promote reusable standards.

What we're looking for

• Six or more years of business analysis, healthcare analytics, health information technology, product or solution delivery, or related experience; equivalent education and experience considered.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex requirements and process-analysis efforts across business, clinical, data, and technical stakeholders.
• Strong command of project delivery fundamentals, including scope, work planning, milestones, dependencies, estimation, status, risk and issue management, change control, quality, and stakeholder communication.
• Advanced practical experience with Jira or a comparable work-management platform, Excel, process modeling, and requirements traceability; proficiency using SQL or equivalent methods to interrogate and validate data is strongly valued.
• Ability to influence without direct authority, resolve ambiguity, mentor colleagues, and present complex recommendations clearly to clients and leadership.

Preferred qualifications and domain experience

• Bachelor’s degree in business, health administration, public health, information systems, analytics, or a related field; relevant advanced degree or certification is valued.
• Experience with Medicaid, Medicare, health plans, accountable care, public-sector healthcare, provider organizations, or enterprise population health platforms.
• Deep familiarity with quality measurement, value-based care, care management, health equity, social drivers of health, risk adjustment or stratification, healthcare data models, interoperability, and privacy-sensitive analytics.
• Experience coordinating multi-workstream technology delivery, leading user acceptance testing, supporting implementation readiness, and developing executive or client-facing recommendations.
• Business analysis, agile, healthcare quality, analytics, or project management certification is valued.

Level-specific accountability

• Independently owns complex, ambiguous, or cross-workstream analysis and the associated delivery plan.
• Sets analysis standards, challenges incomplete assumptions, and ensures decisions are traceable, testable, and operationally viable.
• Provides forward-looking schedule, dependency, and risk insight rather than reporting status only after impact occurs.
• Coordinates and mentors other analysts, reviews deliverable quality, and acts as a trusted bridge among client, clinical, product, project, and technical leadership.
• Recommends changes to scope, sequencing, process, or solution direction when evidence indicates a better path to client and population outcomes.

What you should expect in this role

Required availability: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Pacific Time to align with client and team operating hours.

• Fully remote options from most US locations and territories
• Video cameras must be used during all interviews, as well as during the initial week of orientation
• Photo will be taken during screening for verification in all steps of the recruitment process.
• The deadline to submit applications for this posting is November 5, 2026

The pay range for this position is$74,300.00 - $99,200 per year, however, the base pay offered may vary depending on geographic region, internal equity, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. Put your passion to work at Gainwell. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your career in a company that values work flexibility, learning, and career development. All salaried, full-time candidates are eligible for our generous, flexible vacation policy, a 401(k) employer match, comprehensive health benefits , and educational assistance. We also have a variety of leadership and technical development academies to help build your skills and capabilities.

We believe nothing is impossible when you bring together people who care deeply about making healthcare work better for everyone. Build your career with Gainwell, an industry leader. You’ll be joining a company where collaboration, innovation, and inclusion fuel our growth. Learn more about Gainwell at our company website and visit our Careers site for all available job role openings.

Gainwell Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer, where all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), age, sexual orientation, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Gainwell Technologies defines “wages” and “wage rates” to include “all forms of pay, including, but not limited to, salary, overtime pay, bonuses, stock, stock options, profit sharing and bonus plans, life insurance, vacation and holiday pay, cleaning or gasoline allowances, hotel accommodations, reimbursement for travel expenses, and benefits.