Lead Data Analyst (Healthcare Analytics)
Princeton, NJFull-time$163K/yrSeen 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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Job overview
The Lead Data Analyst designs and maintains analytics and reporting solutions for healthcare, claims, provider, financial, and operational datasets. The role analyzes data, develops SQL and SAS workflows, builds dashboards, and leads data modeling, governance, and quality initiatives. It also supports forecasting, reporting optimization, cloud analytics, and enterprise modernization, while providing technical leadership and mentoring junior analysts. Travel or relocation to unanticipated client locations across the United States may be required.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
Qualifications
Full job description
Experience Required
3 years
Minimum Education Required
Master's Degree
Expected Start Date
10/26/2026
Compensation
$162,968.00 - $162,968.00 / Yearly
Hours Per Week
40
Number Of Positions
1
Shift
First Shift (Day)
Job Description
-Design, develop, and maintain advanced analytical and reporting solutions for large-scale
healthcare, claims, provider, financial, and operational datasets to support strategic business
decision-making.
•&Analyze complex structured and unstructured datasets to identify trends, anomalies, operational
inefficiencies, cost-saving opportunities, and performance improvement initiatives across
enterprise business functions.
•&Develop and optimize complex SQL queries, stored procedures, SAS programs, and ETL pipelines for
data extraction, transformation, validation, and integration from multiple source systems into
enterprise data warehouse environments.
•&Design, build, and maintain interactive dashboards, KPI scorecards, and business intelligence
reports using visualization tools to provide actionable insights to executive leadership and
operational teams.
•&Lead data modeling, data governance, and data quality management initiatives to ensure data
integrity, consistency, accuracy, and compliance with enterprise reporting standards.
•&Perform advanced statistical analysis, forecasting, trend analysis, variance analysis, and root
cause investigations to support operational, financial, and regulatory reporting requirements.
•&Collaborate with business stakeholders, engineering teams, and cross-functional departments to
gather requirements and translate business needs into scalable analytical and reporting solutions.
•&Identify performance bottlenecks in analytical queries and reporting processes and implement
optimization strategies to improve scalability, efficiency, and system performance.
•&Support cloud-based analytics and big data initiatives involving enterprise reporting
modernization, automation, and advanced analytics platforms.
•&Provide technical leadership, mentor junior analysts, and establish best practices for analytics,
reporting, automation, and data governance.
Employee may be required to travel and/or relocate to unanticipated client locations throughout the
United States.
Minimum Requirements
- Master’s degree in Data Analytics, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field, or foreign equivalent, plus 3 years of experience in the offered position or related occupation;
OR (alternative)
- Bachelor’s degree in Data Analytics, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field, or foreign equivalent, plus 5 years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the offered position or related occupation.
Special Skills Required
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Experience with SAS (Base SAS, SAS Enterprise Guide, PROC SQL, SAS/STAT)
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Experience in SQL, ETL development, data warehousing, and data modeling
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Experience with Tableau / BI dashboard development and KPI reporting
Place of Work
On-site
Requisition ID
Lead Data Analyst
Job Type
Full Time
Application Email
How this job compares
Set against the 5,605 open Data Analyst jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 1, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$163K/yr
- New Jersey median$87–129K/yr92 salary ranges
- US median$88–131K/yr3,506 salary ranges
This rate, $163K, is 45% above the New Jersey median midpoint ($113K) — in the top quarter of Data Analyst salary ranges in New Jersey.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 118 open Data Analyst jobs in New Jersey and 5,605 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New Jersey
- Deloitte6 open
- Highmark Health5 open
- LINQGLOBALGROUP LLC4 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Data Analyst postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years at the median (4,256 postings).
- Education
- 2,380 of the 5,605 open Data Analyst jobs (42%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 1, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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