Business Intelligence Analyst at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts

Job Description:

Job ID:23529

Location:450 Brookline Ave,

Boston,
MA 02215


Category:IT/Informatics

Employment Type:Full time

Overview

The Clinical Operations and Business Analytics (COBA) team at DFCI conducts analyses used to provide actionable information to the different operational and clinical departments across the institute. The team has access to an extraordinary range of healthcare data including medical and pharmacy claims, enrollment, EMR (Epic), scheduling, billing, referral and laboratory results. Using this data, the team supports reporting and analyses in areas such as operations, quality measurement, trend management, utilization, patient management and outcomes.

The Business Intelligence Analyst must develop an in-depth understanding of our data and data structures as well as the ability to translate specifications into programming logic, and create visualizations and reports. In addition, the COBA Analyst must have excellent communication skills and ability to engage and educate the analytic community on how to leverage the variety of data sources.

The Analyst will be expected to support new projects, function independently within a fast-paced environment, work on several different projects/tasks concurrently and serve as a data advisor to COBA team and project teams as new projects or ad hoc reports are developed. Assignments will include complex data analysis projects that can be multi-disciplinary or interdepartmental. The Analyst will also collaborate with the Data Management team to address data requirements for analytic reporting. The Analyst will work with a variety of tools (ex: SAS, SQL, Excel, Tableau, etc.) to access data, write queries, develop programming logic, run reports, manipulate, and analyze large datasets to meet the needs of institute. The Mission, Vision, and Core Values of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute are incorporated into all areas of practice.

Requirements

• Provide quantitative and qualitative reporting support to various departments that range from finance to clinical operations within DFCI


• Utilize business intelligence tools to create reports and dashboards


• Serve as a technical expert for compiling, cleaning, manipulating, and analyzing data related to assigned projects


• Prepare summaries of important insights to communicate to senior leadership


• Build and foster an institute-wide analytic community of practice by training, educating and bringing together analysts, data stewards, business stewards and analytics consumers


• Immediately bring to the attention of the COBA Leads issues, concerns and problems which may hinder achievement of deadlines and or/ accomplishments of responsibilities


• Perform other similar and related duties as required or directed

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree or equivalent in Statistics, Computer Science, Information Technology, Mathematics or related field


• Minimum of one to three years of related work experience in healthcare industry or Master's in Bioinformatics, Epidemiology or Computer Science


• Must be able to function independently in a fast-paced environment while managing multiple priorities


• Must have superior interpersonal and communication skills to effectively work and communicate with all levels of internal and external staff


• Requires superior computer skills, i.e. MS Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Word and data mining techniques.


• Extensive experience with a business intelligence tools, such as Tableau


• Programming abilities and/or statistical software skills are required

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:

Technical Skills:

• Knowledge of data storage and manipulation platforms including Microsoft SQL Server, Excel, Access is required.


• Experience in SQL server, MySQL or Oracle to be able to use relational databases across Dana-Farber and program independently in at least one system.
  • Comfortable with manipulating data, extracting desired information perform data analysis and troubleshoot data integrity issues.
  
  


• Prior experience of business intelligence tools, such as Tableau, Microstrategy, etc.


• Hands-on experience in Tableau Desktop to design, development and document required reporting, analytics, and visualization deliverables


• Communicate with internal clients to develop and translate a business requirement into an effective and insightful interactive analytical dashboard


• Quickly and effectively diagnose and respond to service desk requests regarding data integrity and functional or interactive issues in existing and future dashboard
  • Promote and contribute to the overall strategy and vision of Tableau design and development practices at the institute
  
  


• Comfortable learning new software tools


• Competent with additional Microsoft Office suite software (e.g. , Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Visio...

Qualitative Skills:

• Must be able to remain open-minded about data exploration, vet work independently and ensure accuracy of all reports before delivering end-results


• Proven ability to document business requirements and ability to design and develop reports


• Solid oral and written communication skills


• Must be able to function independently and manage multiple priorities


• Must be very flexible in coordinating complex activities that are often subject to rapid or extensive changes and be able to prioritize urgent requests


• Exceptional service orientation


• Ability to motivate and inspire others in a team-oriented, collaborative environment


• Ability to effectively manage client and partner expectations


• Willingness to invest in understanding diverse stakeholder cultures, motivations and practices to enable consensus-based solutions.


• Strong sense of balance and ethics, ability to consistently represent the interests and mission of the DFCI and act on behalf of its current and future patients

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is an equal opportunity employer and affirms the right of every qualified applicant to receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, age, ancestry, military service, protected veteran status, or other groups as protected by law.

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Job ID:23529

Location:450 Brookline Ave,

Boston,
MA 02215


Category:IT/Informatics

Employment Type:Full time

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