Senior Healthcare Data Analyst - Remote

City/State

Virginia Beach, VA

Work Shift

First (Days)

Overview:

Senior Healthcare Data Analyst - Population Health

Remote / Hybrid Opportunities | Sentara Health

Overview

At Sentara Health, population health is central to our mission of improving the health and well-being of the communities we serve. Our analytics team transforms clinical, financial, and operational data into meaningful insights that help reduce care gaps, improve quality outcomes, support value-based care, and strengthen provider performance across our integrated delivery network.

We are seeking a Senior Healthcare Data Analyst with strong data storytelling, advanced visualization skills, and deep healthcare analytics experience. This role translates complex population, quality, and financial data into clear, actionable insights for clinical teams, operational leaders, employer groups, and external provider partners.

What You Will Do

Transform population health data into meaningful stories: Create dashboards, scorecards, and reports that communicate trends, performance, and opportunities in a clear and actionable way.

Develop analytics that drive enterprise-wide performance in the following domains:

• Quality Measures: HEDIS reporting, STAR ratings, gap closure

• Medical Expense: cost-of-care trends, utilization, savings opportunities

• Value-Based Care & Network Performance: contracting insights, pay-for-performance metrics, financial performance

• Employer Group Reporting: clinical and financial outcomes reporting for employer clients

• Clinical Integrated Network (CIN) Reporting: quality, financial, and operational analytics for CIN providers

• Provider Performance Analytics: quality, and financial performance analytics

• Benchmarking: quality, utilization, and performance benchmarking

• General Population Health Reporting: trends, cohorts, risk indicators, and care management support

• Support key reporting needs across the organization

• Engage directly with stakeholders: Collaborate with diverse internal teams, and external provider partners to understand analytic needs and translate them into actionable solutions.

• Contribute as a senior team member onboarding, mentorship, and subject matter leadership.

What You Bring

Technical Skills

• Strong experience with SQL

• Proficiency with Power BI (Tableau exposure is helpful)

• Ability to build dashboards, performance scorecards, and data visualizations

• Strong data storytelling and ability to explain insights to diverse audiences

Healthcare & Population Health Expertise

• Understanding of HEDIS, STAR ratings, gap closure workflows and impact to data/analytics

• Knowledge of value-based care, pay-for-performance, CIN operations, and provider analytics

• Experience working with medical expense data, utilization, and financial performance

• Familiarity with employer reporting and provider network analytics

Professional Skills

• Excellent oral and written communication

• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking

• Consultative engagement skills

• Ability to work with interdisciplinary teams and external providers

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree required

• 3+ years of healthcare analytics experience required, preferably in population health, quality, care management, or clinical analytics

Benefits: Caring For Your Family and Your Career

• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000
• Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
• Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
• Emergency Backup Care
• Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans
• Life Insurance
• 401k/403B with Employer Match
• Tuition Assistance - $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
• Student Debt Pay Down - $10,000
• Reimbursement for certifications and free access to complete CEUs and professional development
• Pet Insurance
• Legal Resources Plan
• Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met.

Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.

In support of our mission "to improve health every day," this is a tobacco-free environment.

For positions that are available as remote work, Sentara Health employs associates in the following states:

Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.