Sr Analyst - Data Analytics - Maximus Services, LLC

Maximus is seeking a Sr Data Analyst to join our team. In this key role, you will not only support segmenting customers and outputting files to generate outbound customer communication campaigns, but also manage your projects to ensure their success. The primary responsibility of this role involves coding to defined requirements, assisting in the definition of new requirements, individual project management, data analysis, ensuring data accuracy, and automating processes.

Senior Data Analytics Analysts are highly skilled individual contributors with excellent proficiency in BI platforms and data analytics. They produce valuable insights, building reports and dashboards and conducting analyses in support of ongoing project operations and strategic initiatives. They develop operational workforce tools and analyses, conduct analyses on large volumes of data, and address urgent and high-impact business problems. They have advanced skills with enterprise business intelligence tools and are comfortable interacting with end-users, stakeholders, and development teams. They are comfortable owning and leading project activities, as required, and are able to independently build high quality products and relationships.

Job Summary

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Develop and deploy advanced methods to analyze operational data and derive meaningful, actionable insights for stakeholders and business development partners.

- Function as point of contact for data and analytical usage accross multiple projects, and guide operational partners on product performance and solution improvement/maturity options.

- Analyze extracted data, identify trends and provide insights and analyses around operations and project data.

- Develop and implement new metrics, functions, and scripts as KPIs and in existing BI/Dashboards as needed.

- Ad hoc tool development to support operational and underserved analytical areas.

- Learning emerging technologies and systems of need for MAXIMUS initiatives.

- Activities to support team communication and strategy implementation (meetings, etc.).

-Project management activities.

Minimum Requirements:

- BS in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Economics, Computer Science, Machine Learning (or similar).
- 5+ years of experience performing quantitative data analysis.
- Advanced Business Intelligence platform development skills with the ability to lead and train on best practice BI use.
- Implementation of machine learning results and algorithms into BI and operational processes.
- Expert in data acquisition/wrangling sourcing beyond SQL/relational to use cloud and API data in BI and operational analysis products.
- Leadership in prioritizing projects and evaluating data analysis solutions.
- Experience working directly with business users and requirements documentation.
- Experience with solution/vendor evaluation and evaluating product ROI.
- Experience with government sponsored health care programs and operations desirable.

Education and Experience Requirements

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Perform campaign development, validation, reconciliation, automation, and establish data feeds using tools such as SQL, SSRS, SSIS, Hadoop Impala, and other platforms as needed.
• Create and maintain history and waterfall tables, ensuring all necessary data elements are retained to respond to audits and measure success.
• Work closely with multiple teams to coordinate items needed for campaign implementation. This includes, but is not limited to, providing file layouts, schemas, triggering and reviewing test results, coordinating drop volume and schedules, and all other required tasks.
• Create and maintain all documentation including obtaining and collecting artifacts needed for campaigns and ensure documentation and task trackers are kept up to date.
• Assist with production monitoring to ensure all scheduled jobs and processes are produced as expected. This will include reviewing logs, reconciliation reports, and identifying and resolving production failures or load errors.
• The senior analyst is expected to take ownership of assigned projects from start to finish to ensure milestones are hit, and keep management updated if deadlines are in jeopardy. They must have the ability to manage multiple projects in parallel, maintain a flexible and positive mindset when there are quick changes in direction, and provide insights and suggestions for such things as campaign strategies, delivery channels, and technical/process efficiencies.
• Ability to present findings to management and senior leaders as well communicate insights in both technical and business terms.
• Keep leaders in operations, business lines, and business support groups informed of ongoing developments and early indications of strategy or campaign performance and operational metrics.
• Fulfill ad-hoc requests from varying business units.
• Perform other assigned duties.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Economics, Machine Learning (or similar) or equivalent experience.
• 5 years of experience in reporting, analysis and strategy development
• 2 years of SQL, or equivalent querying language experience
• 2 years of experience working as a project lead or key participant in multiple projects
• Ability to interpret, develop, and implement business strategies
• Ability to analyze large amounts of raw data to identify trends within the data that could be used to define and drive strategies and segmentations
• Ability to proactively identify opportunities based off analytical insight
• Ability to meet or exceed deadlines with fluctuating workload in a time-sensitive environment
• Demonstrated leadership/mentoring ability for less senior team members
• Ability to adjust to fluctuating workload with the pressure of aggressive deadlines
• Strong oral and written communication skills required to effectively and concisely present key findings to senior management
• Strong working knowledge in presenting quantitative data via PowerPoint, Excel, Word,

Additional Requirements as per contract/client:

• Must reside in the U.S.
• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Must be able to pass a criminal background check.
• Must not be delinquent or in default on any federal student loans.
• Employment and continued employment are contingent upon obtaining and maintaining a favorable clearance. Final suitability determination is the sole discretion of the Department of Education.

• Hardwired internet (ethernet) connection
• Internet download speed of 20mbps or higher required (you can test this by going to www.speedtest.net )
• Private work area and adequate power source

MAXIMUS Introduction

Since 1975, Maximus has operated under its founding mission of Helping Government Serve the People, enabling citizens around the globe to successfully engage with their governments at all levels and across a variety of health and human services programs. Maximus delivers innovative business process management and technology solutions that contribute to improved outcomes for citizens and higher levels of productivity, accuracy, accountability and efficiency of government-sponsored programs. With more than 30,000 employees worldwide, Maximus is a proud partner to government agencies in the United States, Australia, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit https://www.maximus.com.

EEO Statement

EEO Statement: Active military service members, their spouses, and veteran candidates often embody the core competencies MAXIMUS deems essential, and bring a resiliency and dependability that greatly enhances our workforce. We recognize your unique skills and experiences, and want to provide you with a career path that allows you to continue making a difference for our country. We're proud of our connections to organizations dedicated to serving veterans and their families. If you are transitioning from military to civilian life, have prior service, are a retired veteran or a member of the National Guard or Reserves, or a spouse of an active military service member, we have challenging and rewarding career opportunities available for you. A committed and diverse workforce is our most important resource. MAXIMUS is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. MAXIMUS provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disabled status.

Pay Transparency

Maximus compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to job location, a candidate's education, training, experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value analysis including seniority and merit systems, as well as internal pay alignment. Annual salary is just one component of Maximus's total compensation package. Other rewards may include short- and long-term incentives as well as program-specific awards. Additionally, Maximus provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off. Compensation ranges may differ based on contract value but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. An applicant's salary history will not be used in determining compensation. Maximus will comply with regulatory minimum wage rates and exempt salary thresholds in all instances.

Posted Max

USD $90,000.00/Yr.

Posted Min

USD $64,800.00/Yr.