Summary
About the Role
Key Responsibilities:
- Support Payer MDM strategy and ensure alignment with business priorities and stakeholder expectations.
- Assist in establishing governance, standards, and best practices across payer, plan, PBM, HUB, SP, and claims data domains.
- Participate in reviewing deliverables, supporting team processes, and contributing to a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
- Work with stewardship teams to manage curation workflows, exception handling, and data quality processes.
- Translate payer business rules into standardized operational logic and ensure consistency across stakeholders.
- Collaborate with SMEs and external vendors to resolve data discrepancies and maintain adherence to quality expectations.
- Assist in strengthening data quality frameworks, monitoring, validation, and alerting mechanisms.
- Contribute to process optimization, operational efficiency, and proactive issue identification.
- Perform data profiling, completeness checks, and root‑cause analysis to support remediation efforts.
- Analyze payer/plan/PBM attributes to support matching logic, hierarchy validation, and transformation requirements.
- Ensure reliable support for downstream data consumers by maintaining consistency in mastered data delivery and stewardship practices.
Essential Requirements:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
- 4-6 years of experience in data management with strong expertise in ELT/ETL development.
- Hands‑on experience with Snowflake, SQL, Python, and orchestration tools (Airflow, ADF, etc.).
- Strong experience designing ingestion and transformation pipelines for large healthcare datasets.
- Experience implementing data quality, profiling, validation, logging, and alerting frameworks.
- Good understanding of payer/plan/PBM concepts
- Ability to lead & supervise data initiatives, provide mentorship, and collaborate cross‑functionally.
- Strong problem‑solving skills, performance tuning experience, and an automation‑first mindset.
Desired Skills
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Pro-active in handling complex situations & problems
- Ability to work under tight deadlines and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
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