Veteran Firm Seeking a Senior Data Analyst for Remote Assignment in Washington, DC
My name is Stephen Hrutka. I lead a Veteran-owned consulting firm in Washington, DC, focused on strategic sourcing, supply chain management, and IT Staffing.
We seek to fill a Senior Data Analyst role for the DHCF - Department of Health Care Finance in the DC Government.
The ideal candidate has 4+ years of strong experience in Healthcare Data, 16+ years of experience leading projects and ensuring they comply with established standards/procedures, and 3+ years of experience with Curam software—V6 or higher (Database-centric work is highly desired).
If you’re interested, I'll gladly provide more details about the role and further discuss your qualifications.
Thanks,
Stephen M Hrutka
Principal Consultant
www.hruckus.com
Executive Summary: HRUCKUS is looking to hire a Senior Data Analyst with 16+ years of experience. The Senior Data Analyst will coordinate IT project management, engineering, maintenance, QA, and risk management.
Position Description: The Data Steward will play a critical role in supporting the work of the DCAS Program Administration, Executive Steering Committee, and DCAS Stakeholders.
Under the aegis of the DCAS Chief Data Officer, the DCAS Data Steward is responsible for:
Operational Oversight
One of the critical duties of the Data Stewards is overseeing the life cycle of DCAS data. Specifically, the Data Steward is responsible for defining and implementing policies and procedures for the day-to-day operational and administrative management of systems and data —including the intake, storage, processing, and transmission of data to internal and external systems. As a part of overseeing institutional data, the Data Steward must be accountable for defining and documenting data and terminology in the relevant glossary. This includes ensuring that each critical data element is clearly defined and still in use.
- Responsible for developing and implementing strategies to assess and establish rules to maintain the quality, integrity, and reliability of data
- Coordinate cross-agency efforts and decisions that ensure official agency records requirements, privacy, security, and other related requirements are met
- Provide oversight to ensure the data issues, needs, and requirements are documented
Data Quality
The Data Steward is ultimately responsible for establishing data-quality metrics and requirements, including defining each data element's acceptable values, ranges, and parameters. They also work with the DCAS Data Research, Analytics, and Management team to establish procedures for detecting and correcting data quality issues and collaborate to establish policies, procedures, and internal controls affecting data quality. In addition, the Data Steward engages in the ongoing and detailed evaluation of data quality, identifying anomalies and discrepancies, and contributing expertise to understand the root cause and implement corrective measures.
- Coordinate with DCAS program teams and DCAS Stakeholder Agencies to ensure the quality and integrity of the DCAS data elements (both content and metadata) to support the implementation of DCAS
- Facilitate the creation of data standards based on business rules, data access security requirements, and retention of legacy data
Privacy, Security, and Risk Management
One of the most critical aspects for Data Stewards is data protection. The incumbent must establish guidelines and protocols that govern the proliferation of data to ensure that privacy controls are enforced in all processes. To be effective, the Data Steward must compile retention, archival, and disposal requirements and ensure institutional policy and regulations compliance. Accordingly, the Data Steward will establish and implement data curation practices to ensure that the life span of data is commensurate with requirements. However, the Data Steward must protect data while balancing transparency and privacy.
- Review agency and interagency data-related work products
- Coordinate cross-agency efforts and decisions to ensure that data requirements for official agency records, privacy, security, and other related requirements are met
Policies and Procedures
The Data Steward defines policies and procedures for access to DCAS data, including the criteria for authorization based on role and individual. Working closely with DCAS IT, Privacy, and PMO to establish controls, the Data Steward evaluates any suspected or actual breaches or vulnerabilities in confidentiality, integrity, or availability and reports them to management or information security personnel.
- Monitor and analyze the application of federal, state, and local data requirements, standards, and rules (internal and external)
- Coordinate efforts with stakeholder agencies to interpret business needs into applications and derive data requirements that represent the business entities' needs regarding accessibility, completeness, timeliness, desired attributes, and relationship to other data entities when appropriate
- Present findings and recommendations to DCAS leadership, the Executive Steering Committee, and other stakeholders regarding recommended changes to improve operating practices, accountability, and transparency
- Other duties as assigned
Preferred Skills:
- Knowledge of sound data management principles, concepts, and practices
- Knowledge of how to determine business data requirements, create data standards and business rules
- Knowledge of human services and health care programs
- Ability to work with multiple agency stakeholders that may have joint and unique agency or program-specific data requirements
- Familiarity with public policy issues related to human services data requirements
- Ability to analyze complex, abstract issues in a logical, structured way
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office(Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook)
- Knowledge of statistics and research methodology
- Analytical skills: outstanding analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Familiarity with business information generation and analysis methods
- Ability to effectively drive business, culture, and technology change in a dynamic and complex operating environment
- Gravitas will develop a framework for information and data governance and sell and embed it in all levels of the business
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to explain digital concepts and technologies to business leaders and business concepts to technologists; the ability to sell ideas and processes internally at all levels, including the board and investors
- Demonstrated knowledge of data structure desired but not essential; information systems/tools and related software and data management; enterprise content management and record-keeping policies and practices in a complex organizational environment
- Broad experience desired, but not essential, in multiple domain areas, such as data warehousing, business intelligence (BI), data governance, data architecture, data integration, data classification, data strategy, data quality management, data security, and privacy, MDM, data standards, regulatory compliance, and enterprise architecture frameworks
- Preference for candidates with knowledge and experience with government
Position Responsibilities:
- Coordinates IT project management, engineering, maintenance, QA, and risk management
- Plans, coordinates, and monitors project activities
- Develops technical applications to support users
- Develops, implements, maintains, and enforces documented standards and procedures for the design, development, installation, modification, and documentation of assigned systems
- Provides training for system products and procedures
- Performs application upgrades
- Performs, monitors, maintenance, or reports on real-time databases, real-time network and serial data communications, and real-time graphics and logic applications
- Troubleshoots problems
- Ensures project life-cycle follows District standards and procedures
Minimum Education/Certification Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related field or equivalent
experience
The target annual salary is $121,000-$129,000.
Skills Matrix:
Skill/ Required /Desired/ Years of Experience
16+ yrs planning, coordinating, and monitoring project activities/ Required/ 16
16+ yrs leading projects, ensuring they are in compliance with established standards/procedures/ Required/ 16
Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience Required
Experience with ETL tools - Design, Develop, Analyze/ Required/ 8
Exp. with Curam software - V6 or higher (Database centric work highly desired)/ Required /3
Proven work experience working as a senior/lead data analyst for large data sets and multiple interfaces/ Required/ 8
Hands-on experience in different file transfer methodologies and different file types and layouts/ Required/ 8
Experience with Tableau, dashboard design and develop/ Required/ 5
Strong experience in Healthcare Data/ Required/ 4
Proven experience delivering Business Intelligence solutions/ Required/ 8
Working knowledge of writing functional, technical and performance requirements in software development environment/ Required/ 8
Possess hands on Systems/Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience/ Highly desired/ 16
Working knowledge of Microsoft Visio to develop flow diagrams/ process diagrams as well as knowledge of the full MS Office Suite/ Nice to have