Product Data Analyst

Lantern is the specialty care platform connecting people with the best care when they need it most. By curating a Network of Excellence comprised of the nation's top specialists for surgery, cancer care, infusions and more, Lantern delivers excellent care with significant cost savings to employers and their workforces. Lantern also pairs members with a dedicated care team, including Care Advocates and nurses, for the entirety of their care journey, helping them get back to good health, back to their families and back to work. With convenient access to specialists nationwide, Lantern means quality care is within driving distance for most. Lantern is trusted by the nation's largest employers to deliver care to more than 6 million members across the country. Learn more about us at lanterncare.com. 

About You:

• You use LOGIC in your decision making and understand that progress is critical to making change. You focus on the execution of your content while balancing a fast-paced environment and you take the time to celebrate both the small & big wins. 
• INCLUSION is a core tenant of your personal beliefs. A diverse and inclusive environment is incredibly important to you. You understand and desire to be a part of a diverse team with different experiences and perspectives & you cherish the differences in each individual that you interact with.
• You have the GRIT, drive and ambition to tackle big problems. Big problems require big ideas and a team that supports new ideas. 
• You care deeply for your customers are driven to keep HUMANITY in all decisions. Your customers aren’t just the individuals using your product. They are the driving factor in your motivation to make a change.
• Integrity guides you in life. Focusing on the TRUTH vs. giving people the answers they want to hear. 
• You thrive in a Team Environment. Collaboration is key in innovation and creating change.

These pillars of LIGHT are a reminder to our team that we are making a difference by providing guidance and support in navigating the often complex and confusing landscape of healthcare. We hope that through this LIGHT, individuals can find their way to the best care, resources, and support they need to get back to life. 

If this sounds like you, we would love to connect to speak further about career opportunities at Lantern.

Please apply to our role & someone from our Talent Acquisition Team will reach out to help you navigate our interview process.

We are looking for a Product Data Analyst to support key product initiatives across the third-party administrator (TPA) and Provider network solutions at Lantern. This role sits in the Product organization with a core focus on enabling the data driven initiatives within TPA, Health Plan enablement and Provider roadmap.  The ideal candidate combines a strong product mindset as well as hands-on technical skills and expertise, and will work closely with data engineering, data governance and data operations teams to build analytics and insights dashboards, enable data pipelines, workflow automation and experimentation frameworks. The analyst excels at ingesting and transforming multiple fragmented data sets into clear, actionable insights.
The Product Data Analyst shall apply specialized knowledge of modern analytics stack including Microsoft Azure Stack, Python, R, Excel, PowerBI, Databricks, and Snowflake to conceptualize, design, develop, unit-test, configure, and implement business intelligence and data insight solutions.   The person will work closely with product managers and technical leads and interact with internal and external stakeholders. This person will also be responsible for generating requirements and technical documentation as needed; conforming to security and quality standards; and staying current on emerging trends.
Successful candidates will:

• Have hands on experience working with and transforming multiple healthcare data sets and familiarity with clearing house and data exchange standards
• Be comfortable with researching data questions, identify root causes, and interact closely with business users and technical resources on various data related decisions
• Leverage analysis skills to discern, unlock, and communicate insights out to decision makers at all levels of the business
• Have experience in creating robust and automated pipelines to ingest and process structured and unstructured data sources into analytical platforms using batch and streaming mechanisms leveraging a cloud native toolset
• Leverage the right tools for the right job to deliver testable, maintainable, and modern data solutions
• Aspire to be efficient, thorough and proactive. Be a collaborator and get cross functional alignment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support roadmap initiatives across Product neighborhoods with an initial focus on our TPA, Payor and Provider products, collaborate across neighborhoods to support key initiatives
• Centralize fragmented data (internal and external) as integrate well external data sources into our core data set
• Analyze data, create logic to support products, deliver actionable insights to support and drive operational and strategic initiatives
• Help build and monitor key pipelines, build validations, and champion automation tooling as needed
• Analyze, drive insights from, and bolster both the member and provider experience journey
• Champion and execute A/B testing on key initiatives
• Write dashboards and reports that are intuitive, clear, clean, and easy to understand.
• Document requirements and translate into proper system requirements specifications using high-maturity methods, processes and tools.
• Execute and coordinate requirements and change management processes.
• Design, prepare and execute unit tests.
• Participates in cross-functional teams.
• Develops innovative team solutions to complex problems.
• Integrates technical expertise and business understanding to create superior solutions for clients.
• Consults with team members and other organizations, clients and vendors on complex issues.
• Special projects as requested

Qualifications:

• 5+ years in data analytics, preferably in product or healthcare environments.
• Expertise in BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI), SQL, and data pipeline monitoring.
• Experience with healthcare standards and data formats (e.g. 837, 270/271) and provider data sources
• Experience working with data lake, data fabric and tools like Data Bricks
• Strong understanding of experimentation, funnel analysis, and engagement metrics.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in related field preferred. Equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted in lieu of degree. A master’s degree in engineering, analytics, data science or related field a plus.
• 5+ years of proven experience in data analysis, preferably related U.S. healthcare, using core data analysis tools and languages such as SQL, Python, R, and Excel
• 4+ years of experience with Big Data technologies including Databricks, PySpark, Python, and varying types of Azure Storage, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau or similar experience.
• 4+ years of performing data engineering/ETL operations, preferably with Azure Data Factory
• 4+ years of data warehouse experience, preferably with the Snowflake data platform
• 4+ years of experience in SQL and be able to write complex logic using SQL as part of ETL, and use SQL effectively to perform complex data analysis and discovery
• Demonstrate strong organization skills and detail-oriented
• Experience with CMD shell and PowerShell
• Experience with large-scale, complex data environments
• Ability to self-motivate and meet deadlines
• Intense desire to learn
• Ability to express complex technical concepts effectively, both verbally and in writing
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, changing environment
• Ability to maintain confidentiality

Benefits:  

• Medical Insurance  
• Dental Insurance  
• Vision Insurance  
• Short- & Long-Term Disability  
• Life Insurance  
• 401k with company match

Lantern does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.