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Kaiser Permanente

Integrated healthcare provider and payer platform

Data Reporting and Analytics Consultant 3 - Biostatistics

Data SciencePosted on Nov 5
Full-timePleasanton, CA, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least one year of statistical modeling experience using SAS, R, or another advanced statistical package.
  • A master's degree in Biostatistics, Statistics, Public Health, Data Science, or a related field, and at least three years of experience in data analytics or a directly related field; additional equivalent work experience in a directly related field may substitute for the degree requirement.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the publication process by drafting methods and results sections under the guidance of more senior employees; gather data, create tables, and interpret data for publication; document processes and decision points; and outline procedures.
  • Create manual components; write macros and distributable programs; create advanced statistical models under the guidance of more senior employees, including identifying when assumptions have been violated; review data for potential errors, mistakes, and data quality issues; and break approved proposals into process steps.
  • Provide coworkers and customers with resources, information, advice, and expertise; influence others through technical explanations and examples; provide occasional mentoring to team members; seek, respond to, and address performance feedback; create plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; anticipate and respond to others' needs; and adapt to change, difficulties, and feedback.
  • Complete work assignments by applying up-to-date subject-area expertise to generate solutions, following procedures and policies, leveraging data and resources to support projects or initiatives, collaborating cross-functionally to solve business problems, monitoring priorities, deadlines, and expectations, communicating progress and information, recommending and implementing improvements, and escalating issues or risks.
  • Support and develop analytical or statistical models for informed business decisions by determining data and analytical requirements, creating models that lead to actionable insights, and testing, refining, and validating models.
  • Gather data and information on targeted variables systematically by validating data sources; querying, merging, and extracting data across sources; completing routine data refreshes and updates; developing or delivering electronic data collection tools; and providing user training, support, and documentation.
  • Interpret data analysis by applying findings to contextual settings under the guidance of more senior employees, and develop reports and presentations for stakeholders to support decision-making.
  • Develop, implement, and automate business and reporting solutions with stakeholders, including design, planning, and implementation; summarize data and results; create summary statistics; organize data reports, visualizations, and interactive Business Intelligence reports; identify additional reporting needs; and prepare documentation.
  • Prepare data for analysis by consolidating data, reviewing quality and accuracy, profiling data inaccuracies, and cleaning and creating final datasets.
  • Support data-informed decisions by consulting with clients to identify business needs; developing outcomes and process measures; translating business requirements; determining data and collection needs and methods; developing analysis plans; measuring the impact of business decisions on clients, customers, or members; identifying efficiency improvements with clients and staff; supporting and training end users; and documenting processes and deliverables.
  • Support creative data analytic approaches leading to actionable outcomes by identifying metrics, calculating algorithms, and conducting analyses under the guidance of more senior employees, including descriptive, correlational, inferential, or predictive statistics.

Desired Qualifications

  • Two years of experience working with data visualization tools.
  • One year of experience publishing as an author in medical or scientific journals.
  • Two years of experience working with SAS.
  • Two years of statistical modeling experience.
  • One year of experience working in a matrixed organization.
  • One year of experience delivering presentations to management.
  • One year of health care experience.
  • Two years of relational database experience.
  • Two years of experience working with open-source tools such as R or Python.
  • Two years of study design experience.
  • Two years of experience working with data extraction and manipulation languages.
  • Two years of experience working with business intelligence tools.
  • Two years of experience working with quality management and data profiling tools.
  • Two years of experience working with SQL.
  • One year of experience in process improvement.
  • Two years of machine learning experience.
  • Two years of programming experience.
  • Two years of experience working with statistical analysis software.
  • One year of statistical consulting experience.
  • One year of project management experience.

About the Company

Kaiser Permanente

Integrated healthcare provider and payer platform

Kaiser Permanente runs an integrated healthcare platform that lets members manage and pay medical, premium, and pharmacy bills online. It serves Medicare Advantage, Individual and Family, and non-employer plans, offering options to pay as a guest or set up payment plans. The platform works by presenting a centralized online portal where users can view bills, choose how to pay, and handle multiple types of charges in one place. Revenue comes from premiums and medical services fees, while the service aims to reduce administrative work for both providers and patients and encourage on-time payments. What sets Kaiser Permanente apart is its combination of healthcare services with a single billing experience across multiple plan types, focusing on a user-friendly, centralized payment process rather than handling billing through separate systems. Its goal is to provide a straightforward, reliable way for members to manage and pay their bills, improving convenience and payment timeliness.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Grant
Total funding
$7.5M
Headquarters
Oakland, CA
Founded
1945

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