Data Analyst at Cognizant in Des Moines, Iowa

Job Description:

Data Analyst (Healthcare)

Location and Travel: Des Moines, Iowa (Remote Available, Flexible After COVID)

*You must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future * 

Job Requirements:

• Review the raw requirements to understand the key outcomes expected by the client. 


• Provide technical guidance to the team to identify the data source and review data profiling to understand the data and its quality. 


• Review logic that needs to be incorporated in the architecture to ensure the data meets the requirements. 


• Identify POC requirement to conduct the feasibility of the requirement, if required. 


• Understand the relationships across different data sources and domains and provide guidance to an Analyst. 


• Post signoff, design complex queries to analyze the existing data and provide critical business insights. 


• Share sample data with the client to give snapshot of the expected outcome. 


• Review a low level design document capturing SQL queries to achieve the target state. 


• Review system integration testing during data migration from the source to the target state to ensure the requirements are met. 


• Provide technical guidance to the team to resolve complex issues.

Job Qualifications:

• 4-6 years in a similar data analytics role or have equivalent technical competence and experience in education. 


• Exposure to working with Healthcare data or working within a Healthcare provider organization.


• Have a demonstrated passion for data and working in data-driven organizations. 


• Can construct effective SQL queries and will keep profiling and optimizing them until they are as efficient as possible. 


• Have experience with data warehouse technologies and best practices. 


• Are comfortable workings with ambiguity and possess the discipline to strive for simplicity, clarity and accuracy.