Principal Healthcare Data Analyst at GDIT Silver , MD

Principal Healthcare Data Analyst

Location:

Silver Spring, MD (Any Location / Remote)

Job Type: Full Time

Job Req: RQ211501

Type of Requisition:
Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
None

Public Trust/Other

Required:

NACI (T1)

Job Family:
Data Science and Data Engineering

US Citizenship

Required:

No

The work you'll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). You will be trusted to lead project teams through analyses and tool development to detect and prevent fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) in the Medicare programs.

In this role you will:

• Lead analytics and machine learning projects from concept to completion, ensuring they meet strategic objectives and include actionable results to detect and deter FWA.
• Guide project teams in the completion of technical tasks while remaining hands on to analyze claims data and conduct advanced statistical analysis when needed.
• Use predictive modeling to increase and optimize efficiencies, process improvements, and other business outcomes.
• Partner with subject matter experts to deliver quality, actionable findings.
• Present complex analytics and insights in a comprehensible manner to a range of audiences (technical/non-technical) and to various levels of leadership.
• Identify opportunities for leveraging Medicare and Medicaid data to drive insightful FWA solutions.
• Advocate for and help implement best practices in data management and analytics to drive continuous improvement.
• Effectively communicate with team members while working remotely.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

• Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science degree with an analytical or technical focus (i.e., Statistics, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics) or related area.
• Minimum of 8+ years of experience conducting advanced analyses, including at least 2 years leading team-based analytics projects from concept through delivery.
• Deep knowledge of U.S. healthcare systems and an expertise in analyzing healthcare claims data, preferably for the use of fraud detection.
• Ability to understand, simplify and explain data in business terms to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proficiency in SQL and familiarity with R or Python for data science (including machine learning).
• Familiarity with Databricks and/or Snowflake.

• Strong relationship building skills with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Customer service oriented and solutions focused attitude.
• Sound analytical, problem solving, and qualitative skills.

The likely salary range for this position is $127,500 - $172,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly

Hours:

40

Travel Required:

Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:
Remote

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post‑tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.

GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee's date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12‑month period for eligible employees.

To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long‑term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans