Public Health Data Analyst

Company: Lantana Consulting Group provides services and software for standards-based health information exchange. We have built our expertise through nearly two decades of development and deployment of technical specifications and interoperability solutions. As a distributed company with no single brick and mortar office, Lantana can hire the best available talent and offer a flexible work schedule. We are a rapidly growing Employee-Owned organization who takes pride in improving public health, quality of care, and research.

Primary purpose: Provides consulting, analytics, training, and development services to Lantana’s client, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Supports the development and implementation of validation and evaluation activities for value-based purchasing and quality-reporting programs. Leverages analytical skills and public-health knowledge to provide actionable insights for Lantana’s clients.

A successful candidate will:

• Conduct analyses in SAS; interpret, summarize, and present findings to relevant stakeholders. Import and manipulate healthcare-quality measure data and conduct descriptive and statistical analyses. 
• Collaborate to plan, develop, and implement validation activities and healthcare-quality measurement programs.
• Collate, analyze, summarize, and visualize healthcare-quality measure data, perform quality checks on analytic deliverables, and evaluate reliability and accuracy of results. 
• Exhibit attention to detail when developing materials, reviewing documentation, troubleshooting issues, and reporting results. 
• Communicate analytic advice effectively with clients, management, and staff.
• Analyze and understand client needs and translate them into formal requirements.
• Provide results to the project team and clients both verbally and in writing.
• Provide measure-development expertise for testing and implementation plans, reports, and write-ups.
• Maintain expertise in the public-health field; stay abreast of industry changes and trends

• Bachelor’s degree in epidemiology, public health, biostatistics, mathematics, or related discipline
• A minimum of six (6) years of relevant experience
• Experience using SAS and R to import data, manipulate data/datasets, and conduct analyses to evaluate data quality and accuracy 
• Experience managing large datasets, moving and merging files from different platforms, cleaning and aggregating data, and performing quality control
• Ability to communicate results verbally and in writing to audiences with varying levels of technical knowledge

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in relevant field
• Experience working with Python and/or Databricks
• Experience with data modernization. 
• Knowledge of and/or experience working with CMS or other public health entity
• Experience with government contracting

Additional Job Information:

• This position is 100% work-from-home/remote apart from the annual company meeting, held as conditions allow.
• Lantana is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants for current openings will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, veteran status or on the basis of disability. 
• For this position, we are not accepting applicants outside of the United States.