Senior Quality Data Analyst

Charlestown, MA
• Beth Israel Lahey Health
• Full-time
• Day When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Under the direction of the System Director, Quality and/or System Director, Quality Analytics, the Senior Quality Data Analyst supports quality, safety, patient experience, regulatory, equity and strategic performance analytics across the health system. This role leverages software applications to design advanced reporting and analytic solutions, develops predictive and analytic solutions, performs detailed data mapping and analysis, and translates complex data into actionable insights for operational, financial and strategic decision-making.

The Senior Quality Data Analyst serves as a primary analytic point of contact and analytics consultant for assigned quality and operational areas and works as a strategic business partner with leaders and teams to produce data that assists in key decision-making, quality improvement, regulatory readiness, and enhanced patient outcomes. The role leads enterprise-level analytic initiatives, coordinates complex cross-functional projects, and provides subject matter expertise in quality measurement, regulatory reporting, and performance analytics.

This position requires intellectual curiosity, strong technical and analytic skills, and the ability to manage multiple complex data projects simultaneously.

The Senior Quality Data Analyst utilizes hospital systems, databases, reporting tools, and business intelligence applications to update, analyze, visualize, and disseminate data. This role maintains the integrity and quality of data by understanding workflows, validating source data and metric logic, and translating business needs into technical specifications for reports, dashboards, and analytic products. The position also serves as an enterprise resource for data governance, reporting standards, and performance measurement, while identifying opportunities to enhance analytics through automation, emerging technologies, and artificial intelligence.

Job Description:

Essential Duties & Responsibilities Complex Data Projects & Stakeholder Partnership Manages multiple complex data projects related to quality, safety, patient experience, regulatory performance, health equity, and internal system goals.

Leads enterprise-level analytic initiatives spanning multiple hospitals, departments, and business functions, coordinating complex work streams and balancing competing organizational priorities.

Serves as a primary analytics consultant for assigned business units, departments, committees, or enterprise-wide quality initiatives by defining analytic requirements, interpreting findings, and recommending data-driven actions.

Works collaboratively with operational, clinical, administrative and executive leaders to translate business needs and strategic objectives into analytic solutions, performance measures, and actionable insights that support operational and financial decision-making, quality improvement, regulatory readiness, and enhanced patient outcomes.

Provides subject matter expertise for quality measurement methodologies, regulatory reporting programs, public reporting, value-based purchasing, and performance improvement initiatives.

Provides consultative expertise to senior leaders on performance improvement opportunities, regulatory strategy, public reporting implications, and organizational benchmarking.

Data Reporting, Visualization & Dashboard Development Designs, develops, maintains, and enhances reporting and analysis tools, including dashboards, scorecards, data visualizations, recurring reports, and ad hoc analyses.

Creates reports and dashboards that track multidimensional performance against system, regional, hospital, department, service line, regulatory, and quality improvement goals.

Draws upon advanced technical skills, including programming and/or query skills, business intelligence and data visualization tools to display key results, including trends, variation, control charts, failure rates, stratified analyses, and other displays that support clear communication through data.

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