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Own actuarial models and client-facing reporting measuring cost savings, outcomes, and performance of healthcare prior authorization programs. Analyze authorization and claims data, conduct impact evaluations, reconcile projected and realized results, investigate trends, and present executive-level insights to customers and leadership. Partner with clinical, customer success, data, and actuarial teams while maintaining reproducible, auditable methodology and documentation.

Develop and maintain financial and cost-savings models for prior authorization initiatives. Analyze healthcare claims, authorization trends, decision patterns, and cost drivers; quantify projected savings; and deliver executive reports and recommendations. Partner with clinical and customer success teams to address authorization challenges, conduct post-implementation assessments, and refine savings strategies. This remote-first role requires approximately 5% travel for onboarding and occasional meetings.

Leads healthcare analytics projects using clinical, claims, pharmacy, and eligibility data to evaluate cost, utilization, quality, and program performance. Develops statistical analyses, predictive models, dashboards, and reporting solutions; identifies optimization opportunities; partners with clinical, product, engineering, and business teams; presents recommendations to stakeholders; and mentors junior analysts.

Leads and develops a Data Platform engineering team while owning delivery of complex data initiatives. The role establishes delivery discipline, assesses technical and implementation risks, partners cross-functionally, and drives production reliability, data quality, observability, incident management, and on-call readiness. It also guides the evolution of scalable data ingestion, transformation, lakehouse, cloud architecture, governance, and reusable platform capabilities.

Designs and delivers large-scale, governed data pipelines and infrastructure across the full data lifecycle. Responsibilities include coding in Python and SQL, optimizing Airflow, dbt, AWS, Kafka, and Iceberg/Parquet workflows, implementing data quality and observability, contributing to architecture and tool evaluations, mentoring engineers, collaborating with stakeholders, and participating in on-call support.

Analyze administrative and clinical healthcare data to build reporting solutions, identify optimization opportunities, and support clinical program effectiveness. Apply statistical analysis, data mining, and predictive modeling to improve decision-making, patient outcomes, utilization, and cost efficiency. Develop dashboards and KPIs, monitor healthcare trends, collaborate with clinical, data science, engineering, and client teams, and lead complex multidisciplinary projects.

As a Healthcare Analyst II, you will analyze healthcare data to optimize strategies, conduct quantitative analysis, and provide insights for clinical interventions, partnering with cross-functional teams.