Senior Analyst - Payer Master Data Management

Senior Analyst - Payer MDM

Job Description Summary

The Senior Analyst – Payer MDM will support the strategy, governance, and operational execution of the Payer Master Data Management (MDM) platform. The role works closely with Product Owners, Payer Data SMEs, and cross‑functional partners to ensure accurate, reliable, and high‑quality mastering of payer, plan, PBM, and commercial healthcare datasets. The Senior Analyst contributes to maintaining standards, supporting stewardship processes, resolving data issues, and driving continuous improvements across data quality and operational workflows.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Support Payer MDM strategy and ensure alignment with business priorities and stakeholder expectations.
• Assist in establishing governance, standards, and best practices across payer, plan, PBM, HUB, SP, and claims data domains.
• Participate in reviewing deliverables, supporting team processes, and contributing to a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Work with stewardship teams to manage curation workflows, exception handling, and data quality processes.
• Translate payer business rules into standardized operational logic and ensure consistency across stakeholders.
• Collaborate with SMEs and external vendors to resolve data discrepancies and maintain adherence to quality expectations.
• Assist in strengthening data quality frameworks, monitoring, validation, and alerting mechanisms.
• Contribute to process optimization, operational efficiency, and proactive issue identification.
• Perform data profiling, completeness checks, and root‑cause analysis to support remediation efforts.
• Analyze payer/plan/PBM attributes to support matching logic, hierarchy validation, and transformation requirements.
• Ensure reliable support for downstream data consumers by maintaining consistency in mastered data delivery and stewardship practices.

Essential Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• 4-6 years of experience in data management with strong expertise in ELT/ETL development.
• Hands‑on experience with Snowflake, SQL, Python, and orchestration tools (Airflow, ADF, etc.).
• Strong experience designing ingestion and transformation pipelines for large healthcare datasets.
• Experience implementing data quality, profiling, validation, logging, and alerting frameworks.
• Good understanding of payer/plan/PBM concepts
• Ability to lead & supervise data initiatives, provide mentorship, and collaborate cross‑functionally.
• Strong problem‑solving skills, performance tuning experience, and an automation‑first mindset.

 Desired Skills

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Pro-active in handling complex situations & problems
• Ability to work under tight deadlines and manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Skills Desired

Advanced SQL, Analytical Thinking, Data Quality, Data Stewardship, Deliverables Management, ETL (Informatica), Extract Transform Load (ETL), Informatica Data Quality, Informatica MDM, Master Data Management (MDM), reltio, reltio cloud mdm, sql, Stakeholder Communications, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management, Stakeholder Partnerships, Structured Query Language (SQL)

Experience Level

Senior Level