Data Analyst 2 - 78132

Duties Description Under the direction of the Medicaid Operations Unit lead, perform data analytics including regular and ad-hoc reporting related to public health insurance programs such as Medicaid, Essential Plan, Child Health Plus, maternal and child health, telehealth, and transportation services.

Coordinating with Medicaid Operations Unit lead to collect program requirements, translate requirements to technical documentation, and compile methodology/code for reporting requirements.

Assessing Medicaid data structures and how they can be used to produce advanced analytics; researching new data sources and analytical tools and recommending solutions.

Produces business intelligence solutions by querying data repositories and generating periodic reports; devises methods for identifying data patterns and trends in data sources; assesses data structures and how they can be used to produce desired reports; conducts or coordinates tests to ensure that solutions are consistent with defined needs; tests, validates, and reformulates models to ensure accurate prediction of outcomes of interest; drafts new functions or applications in programming languages to conduct analyses; creates written reports and effectively communicates/presents results; and may supervise lower level staff.

Qualifications Minimum Qualifications Non-competitive

• seven years of experience* in data visualization, and statistical models and data mining tools.
• Substitution: An associate’s degree may substitute for two years of general experience; or a bachelor’s degree may substitute for four years of general experience.
• A master’s degree in data or computer science, informatics, economics, statistics, mathematics, or a related field, may substitute for one year of general experience; or a Ph.D. in these fields may substitute for two years of general experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Insurance, Medicaid preferred, 1 year of SQL experience working with large datasets preferred, 2 years of supervising experience
• Additional Comments
• We offer a work-life balance and a generous benefits package, worth 65% of salary, including: Holiday & Paid Time Off Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Pension from New York State Employees’ Retirement System Shift & Geographic pay differentials Affordable Health Care options Family dental and vision benefits at no additional cost NYS Deferred Compensation plan Access to NY 529 and NY ABLE College Savings Programs, and U.S. Savings Bonds And many more...The NYS Department of Health is committed to making New York a safer, healthier, and more equitable place to live.
• Understanding health equity, social determinants of health and health disparities is critical to accomplish our goal of eliminating health disparities.
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