Senior Health Data Analyst

Senior Health Data Analyst at Veeva.

About the role Veeva is seeking a Senior Health Data Analyst to enhance the Veeva Compass product suite. This position involves ensuring the accuracy and consistency of health data, specifically focusing on prescription and medical claims. You will manage reference data for key attributes like drug information and diagnostic codes, contributing to the quality and integration of data across Veeva's offerings.

Key facts

Location: Massachusetts - Boston Engagement: Full-Time

What you'll do

• Oversee and expand the Terminology Reference Library (TRL), managing core reference datasets for prescription and medical claims, including drug details, ICD-10 codes, procedure/lab codes, and payer/plan data.
• Conduct in-depth data querying, field mapping, and structural analysis to evaluate and integrate new data sources into existing schemas.
• Execute data quality and cleansing workflows, performing exploratory analysis to identify discrepancies, address missing values, deduplicate data, and ensure completeness and accuracy.
• Continuously improve the product by investigating data anomalies within the Veeva Compass suite and testing data changes to assess customer impact.
• Create interactive dashboards to monitor key data quality metrics, contributing to technical documentation, validation reports, and team process enhancements.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists, Product Managers, and Developers to clarify data quality issues, pinpoint root causes, and develop robust data pipelines.

Requirements

• Four or more years of experience analyzing record-level prescription and medical claims datasets.
• Four or more years of experience in health data quality analysis, data profiling, and data governance principles.
• Advanced SQL skills, with extensive experience querying, manipulating, and aggregating large-scale relational databases.
• Deep understanding of healthcare code sets and industry standards, including NDC, ICD-10, CPT/HCPCS, LOINC, and payer/plan reference data.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze, visualize, and present data quality findings to stakeholders using Excel, BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Sigma), or interactive dashboards.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a willingness to investigate complex, unstructured healthcare data issues, identify root causes, and propose solutions.
• Bachelor's degree in a STEM, quantitative, or healthcare informatics field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with Python.
• Experience with the BI tool Sigma.
• Experience in the life science industry.

Skills & tools

• SQL
• Excel
• Tableau
• Power BI
• Sigma
• Python (nice to have)

Base pay and compensation

Base pay for this role ranges from $80,000 to $125,000, with actual salaries varying based on experience and location. Additional compensation may include variable bonuses and/or stock bonuses.

Benefits

Benefits include medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance, flexible PTO, company-paid holidays, and retirement programs.

Veeva operates as a Work Anywhere company, offering flexibility for remote or office work.

The application process includes a personality assessment within three days of submission. If selected for interviews, the process involves a conversation with the hiring manager, a practical case exercise, and a final conversation with a senior leader.