Title: SAS Programmer/Analyst
Location: Modesto, CA
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.
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.
