Senior Data Consultant Job in San Francisco, California Us

Under general supervision, this position exists to assist the organization in making strategic data-related decisions by analyzing, manipulating, tracking, internally managing, and reporting data. This position takes an active leadership role both as a consultant and as a high-level statistical analytics programmer.
Essential Functions:
- Leads, makes significant contributions, /or provides technical leadership to high visibility projects to identify
- Resolves issues of strategic importance to the organization
- Interfaces regularly w/ senior management to produce timely valuable results
- Directs the development of outcomes process measures, including technical specifications, to enable population measurement, guideline implementation, evaluation
- Builds and maintains complex statistical routines using macros, vendor software, software written by self others
- Tests maintains data integrity across multiple databases (internal SAS, DB2, VSAM; external: Adobe, Excel, SAS parsing routines, COBOL)
- Builds sophisticated statistical models forecasting tools using these databases
- Designs enhances databases
- Designs menu systems that are effective user-friendly
- Develops reports w/ accurate, easy to read, useful information that satisfies the client's needs
- Designs generates tracking and monitoring tools
- Designs research plans for data gathering analysis participates significantly in interpreting analyses developing action plans accordingly
- Defines frames complex multi-dimensional healthcare issues develops time tables/processes for decision making
- Translates needs, issues, ideas into effective strategies and action plans
- Formulates specific implementation plans evaluates the effectiveness of actions/programs implemented
- Develops creative alternative solutions works closely with IT and outside partners (and physicians for TPMG departments).
- Sets the strategic direction of projects determines goals and priorities w/ team, clients, or project management sponsors (when appropriate)
- May coordinate team/project activities schedules
- May establish team membership project participants, provides leadership to multi-disciplinary project teams, as well as manage work of outside consultants when used
- Communicates results/recommendations to project sponsors, clients, various senior level audiences (including physicians for TPMG departments)
- May participate in the development management of the department, including coaching and recruiting for consultants/analysts other departmental activities

Secondary Functions:
- Will also lead a team of data analysts in their day to day work.
- Be a technical mentor as well as distribute assignments to the analysts on a daily or weekly basis.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- 5+ years programming in SAS, SQL, VBA, net or equivalent statistical analytical programming language
- Experience with analytical manipulation and interpretation of large databases required
- Typically, 5+ years of related analytical consulting experience and healthcare experience preferred
- Project management experience strongly preferred
- Experience with MVS/TSO operating systems required
- Master's degree in Economics, Finance, Health Care Administration, Public Health Administration, Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research, or related field, or equivalent bachelor's degree and work experience in lieu of a Masters degree
- Broad familiarity with medical practices, especially population management and process and outcomes measurement
- Knowledge of JCL strongly preferred
- Microsoft Office skills required
- Ability to express complex analytical and technical information to senior management or to audiences with clinical training
- Exceptional analytic and critical thinking skills, writing skills, communication skills, consulting skills, and ability to work within a team
- Must be an independent self-starter
- Proven leadership in consulting and, for some areas, project management
- Must exhibit efficiency, collaboration, candor, openness, and results orientation
- Ability to express complex analytical and technical information to senior management or to audiences with clinical training
- Must be able to work in Labor/Management Partnership environment

Preferred Qualifications:
- Supervisory or managerial experience.
- Able to function as a high level analyst creating dashboards and scorecards efficiently and in an automated manner.