Principal Strategic Planning Analyst

About the role

The Principal Strategic Planning Analyst serves as a technical analytics resource supporting strategic planning and decision‑making. The role acquires, integrates, validates, models, and maintains claims, demographic, state, and other key datasets while ensuring data integrity. Partners with the Sr. BI Developer and cross‑functional teams to develop dashboards, reporting solutions, data models, analytical tools, and automated processes.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with the Strategic Planning Analytics team to define data, reporting, modeling, and technical analytics requirements.
• Acquire, integrate, and maintain data from multiple sources, including claims, demographics, provider, region, and service‑line datasets.
• Develop complex datasets, reporting tables, data models, and analytical files for service‑line, region, and growth analyses.
• Perform data quality reviews, validation processes, and monitor exceptions to ensure accuracy of analytical outputs.
• Support forecasting, demand modeling, utilization modeling, and other analytical methodologies through data preparation and model maintenance.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, MIS, business, data analytics or related field (Master’s preferred).
• 5+ years of progressive experience in a business intelligence role, including experience with SQL, Python, AI/ML frameworks, and data‑warehouse technologies.
• Experience working with healthcare claims or demographic data is preferred.

Required skills

• Strong proficiency in SQL and relational database concepts.
• Programming experience with Python (and optionally R) for data analysis.
• Hands‑on experience with visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Sigma, OBIEE or Crystal Reports.
• Experience with modern data‑warehouse platforms like Snowflake and Databricks.
• Familiarity with AI/ML frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow.