Kaiser Permanente
Description:
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 as both as a consultant and as a high-level SAS programmer.
Essential
Responsibilities:
Leads, makes significant contributions, and/or provides technical leadership to high visibility projects to identify and resolve issues of strategic importance to the organization.
Interfaces regularly with senior management to produce timely and valuable results.
Directs the development of outcomes and process measures, including technical specifications, to enable population measurement, guideline implementation, and evaluation.
Builds and maintains complex statistical SAS routines using macros, vendor software, and software written by self and others.
Tests and maintains data integrity across multiple databases (internal SAS, DB2, VSAM; external:
Adobe, Excel, SAS parsing routines, COBOL).
Builds sophisticated statistical models and forecasting tools using these databases.
Designs and enhances databases.
Designs menu systems that are effective and user-friendly.
Develops reports with accurate, easy to read, useful information that satisfies the client's needs.
Designs and generates tracking and monitoring tools.
Designs research plans for data gathering and analysis.
Participates significantly in interpreting analyses and developing action plans accordingly.
Defines and frames complex multi-dimensional healthcare issues and develops time tables/processes for decision making.
Translates needs, issues, and ideas into effective strategies and action plans.
Formulates specific implementation plans and evaluates the effectiveness of actions/programs implemented.
Develops creative alternative solutions.
Works closely with IT and outside partners (and physicians for SCPMG departments).
Sets the strategic direction of projects.
Determines goals and priorities with team, clients, or project management sponsors (when appropriate).
May coordinate team/project activities and schedules.
May establish team membership and project participants, provide leadership to multi-disciplinary project teams, as well as manage work of outside consultants when used.
Communicates results/recommendations to project sponsors, clients, and various senior level audiences (including physicians for SCPMG departments).
May participate in the development and management of the department, including coaching and recruiting for consultants/analysts and other departmental activities.
Basic
Qualifications:
ExperienceMinimum five (5) years programming in SAS, R, SQL, Python or equivalent required.
EducationMaster's degree in economics, finance, health care administration, public health administration, statistics, mathematics, operations research, or a directly related field required, OR six (6) years of directly related experience.
High School Diploma or General Education Development (GED) required.
License, Certification, RegistrationN/A.
Additional Requirements:
Experience with analytical manipulation and interpretation of large databases required.
Broad familiarity with medical practices, especially population management and process and outcomes measurement preferred.
Experience with MVS/TSO operating systems preferred.
Microsoft Office skills required.
Exceptional analytic and critical thinking skills, writing skills, communication skills, consulting skills, and ability to work within a team.
Ability to express complex analytical and technical information to senior management or to audiences with clinical training.
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.
Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
Preferred
Qualifications:
Experience with SQL, macros, AF, and SASGRAPH, PROC Report and statistical procedures in SAS preferred.
Minimum five (5) years of related analytical consulting experience, healthcare experience preferred.
Project management experience strongly preferred.
Knowledge of JCL strongly preferred.
Experience with EPIC Clarity, Tapestry Claims system, Tableau, and Oracle SQL preferred.
About the Company:
Kaiser Permanente Can a single organization change the future of health care? At Kaiser Permanente, we think so.
America's leading nonprofit integrated health plan, Kaiser Permanente serves over 9 million men, women, and children from 35 hospitals and 431 medical office buildings in nine states and the District of Columbia.
In partnership with our members and communities, our 180,600 employees and physicians continually elevate the state of health care with progressive care, products, services, and advancements.
From the business people who shape our policies, to the IT professionals enabling life-saving data, to the nurses and physicians on the front line of patient care, we share a commitment.
To inspire, nourish, and protect the total health of all we serve.
When you bring your career to Kaiser Permanente, you'll do more than contribute your professional expertise.
You'll feed your passion for helping others.
And you won't just build a rewarding career, you'll truly make a difference.
For our members, patients, communities, and planet.
It's this mission that will make your career here unlike any other.
Join us.
Company Size:
10,000 employees or moreIndustry:
Other/Not ClassifiedFounded:
1945Website:
http:
//www.
kp.
org/careers.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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 as both as a consultant and as a high-level SAS programmer.
Essential
Responsibilities:
Leads, makes significant contributions, and/or provides technical leadership to high visibility projects to identify and resolve issues of strategic importance to the organization.
Interfaces regularly with senior management to produce timely and valuable results.
Directs the development of outcomes and process measures, including technical specifications, to enable population measurement, guideline implementation, and evaluation.
Builds and maintains complex statistical SAS routines using macros, vendor software, and software written by self and others.
Tests and maintains data integrity across multiple databases (internal SAS, DB2, VSAM; external:
Adobe, Excel, SAS parsing routines, COBOL).
Builds sophisticated statistical models and forecasting tools using these databases.
Designs and enhances databases.
Designs menu systems that are effective and user-friendly.
Develops reports with accurate, easy to read, useful information that satisfies the client's needs.
Designs and generates tracking and monitoring tools.
Designs research plans for data gathering and analysis.
Participates significantly in interpreting analyses and developing action plans accordingly.
Defines and frames complex multi-dimensional healthcare issues and develops time tables/processes for decision making.
Translates needs, issues, and ideas into effective strategies and action plans.
Formulates specific implementation plans and evaluates the effectiveness of actions/programs implemented.
Develops creative alternative solutions.
Works closely with IT and outside partners (and physicians for SCPMG departments).
Sets the strategic direction of projects.
Determines goals and priorities with team, clients, or project management sponsors (when appropriate).
May coordinate team/project activities and schedules.
May establish team membership and project participants, provide leadership to multi-disciplinary project teams, as well as manage work of outside consultants when used.
Communicates results/recommendations to project sponsors, clients, and various senior level audiences (including physicians for SCPMG departments).
May participate in the development and management of the department, including coaching and recruiting for consultants/analysts and other departmental activities.
Basic
Qualifications:
ExperienceMinimum five (5) years programming in SAS, R, SQL, Python or equivalent required.
EducationMaster's degree in economics, finance, health care administration, public health administration, statistics, mathematics, operations research, or a directly related field required, OR six (6) years of directly related experience.
High School Diploma or General Education Development (GED) required.
License, Certification, RegistrationN/A.
Additional Requirements:
Experience with analytical manipulation and interpretation of large databases required.
Broad familiarity with medical practices, especially population management and process and outcomes measurement preferred.
Experience with MVS/TSO operating systems preferred.
Microsoft Office skills required.
Exceptional analytic and critical thinking skills, writing skills, communication skills, consulting skills, and ability to work within a team.
Ability to express complex analytical and technical information to senior management or to audiences with clinical training.
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.
Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
Preferred
Qualifications:
Experience with SQL, macros, AF, and SASGRAPH, PROC Report and statistical procedures in SAS preferred.
Minimum five (5) years of related analytical consulting experience, healthcare experience preferred.
Project management experience strongly preferred.
Knowledge of JCL strongly preferred.
Experience with EPIC Clarity, Tapestry Claims system, Tableau, and Oracle SQL preferred.
About the Company:
Kaiser Permanente Can a single organization change the future of health care? At Kaiser Permanente, we think so.
America's leading nonprofit integrated health plan, Kaiser Permanente serves over 9 million men, women, and children from 35 hospitals and 431 medical office buildings in nine states and the District of Columbia.
In partnership with our members and communities, our 180,600 employees and physicians continually elevate the state of health care with progressive care, products, services, and advancements.
From the business people who shape our policies, to the IT professionals enabling life-saving data, to the nurses and physicians on the front line of patient care, we share a commitment.
To inspire, nourish, and protect the total health of all we serve.
When you bring your career to Kaiser Permanente, you'll do more than contribute your professional expertise.
You'll feed your passion for helping others.
And you won't just build a rewarding career, you'll truly make a difference.
For our members, patients, communities, and planet.
It's this mission that will make your career here unlike any other.
Join us.
Company Size:
10,000 employees or moreIndustry:
Other/Not ClassifiedFounded:
1945Website:
http:
//www.
kp.
org/careers.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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