Sr. Data Analyst (Medicare/Medicaid)

GDIT is searching for Senior Data Analyst to join our growing team. You will support an exciting new program focused on identifying vulnerabilities in Medicaid, Medicare and the Marketplace.    The position will focus on reviewing and analyzing publicly available data related to Medicaid, Medicare, and/or Marketplace exchanges. Our work depends on a Senior Data Analyst joining our team to support our customer, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) activities. At GDIT, our people are at the center of everything we do. As a Senior Data Analyst supporting CMS Vulnerability Management Contract. You will be trusted to work on specific technology and data science tools to identify vulnerabilities within CMS' programs in Medicare, Medicaid, and Marketplace. In this role, a typical day will include:

• Collaborating with CMS Center for Program Integrity (CPI) to effectively identify and target specific healthcare vulnerabilities to detect and prevent FWA

• Extract qualitative and quantitative relationships (i.e., patterns, trends) from large amounts of publicly available data using SAS, SQL, R, Python, or other statistical tools

• Gather and organize information for use in supporting decision-making process

• Collect, manipulate, analyze, evaluate, and display data using visualization tools

• Perform data analysis and create data summaries using descriptive statistics

• Implement open-ended data merges, data analysis plans, and perform complex data manipulation and reporting tasks

• Develop, write, and present detailed technical solutions to solve open-ended business problems to technical and non-technical audiences

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years related experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience such as a Masters and 6+ or no degree and 12 years)

• Medicare, Medicaid and/or Healthcare Marketplace experience

• Superior skills conducting statistical and mathematical modeling and analysis using SAS software

• Superior skills using SQL for data manipulation purposes

• Experience developing and presenting solutions to complex, open-ended problems

• Experience proactively identifying and working collaboratively with stakeholders to resolve data anomalies, data quality, and compliance issues in administrative data

• Experience matching and merging disparate data sets

• Experience using MS Excel and PowerPoint for analysis and presentation of results

Desired Skills:

• Experience with fraud detection

• Experience using data visualization tools such as Tableau

• Experience conducting health care related research and analytics

• Superior customer service skills working proactively and collaboratively with federal or state research, compliance, and policy staff and stakeholders to implement and enhance internal and external management reports and public-facing data analysis tools and data sets

• Superior multi-tasking and organization skills. Must manage multiple simultaneous projects and prioritize assignments and tasks, accordingly, remaining flexible to changing priorities and new initiatives

• Superior written and verbal skills.  Must write succinctly and clearly and explain complex situations in plain English to technical and non-technical audiences

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