Company Overview
Leading with our core values of Quality, Integrity, and Opportunity, MedInsight is of the healthcare industry’s most trusted solutions for healthcare intelligence. Our company’s purpose is to empower easy, data-driven decision-making on important healthcare questions. MedInsight products, education, and services make an impact on healthcare by helping to drive better outcomes for patients while reducing wasteful services. Over 300 leading healthcare organizations have come to rely on MedInsight analytic solutions for healthcare cost and care management.
MedInsight is a subsidiary of Milliman; a global, employee-owned consultancy providing actuarial consulting, retirement funding and healthcare financing, enterprise risk management and regulatory compliance, data analytics, and business transformation, as well as a range of other consulting and technology solutions.
The MedInsight Strategic Analytics Services team is looking for a Technical Solutions Architect (Cloud Engineer) to support a variety of healthcare analytics, predictive analytics, and digital transformation projects, leveraging a variety of data types. As a member of the technical staff and a trusted advisor to clients, this professional will join our team to assist in all phases of technical consulting work, including requirements gathering, scalable solution design, data architectures, research, and development. The successful candidate will have strong analytic, technical, and communication skills, and the ability to partner in the delivery of business value to diverse organizations, manage multiple simultaneous projects and innovate solutions that leverage a cloud-first environment.
- Essential Responsibilities:
- Manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Work both independently and in a cross-functional team environment.
- Listen to, understand, and break client questions down into manageable tasks.
- Be comfortable in presenting and discussing ideas with senior leaders of client organizations and Milliman MedInsight.
- Understand client business goals and strategic context and harvest requirements from client organizations.
- Work independently on assigned tasks, i.e., plan, organize, delegate, problem solve, and meet established deadlines.
- Develop senior technical staff through involvement with effectively aligned cross-functional teams.
- Prioritize work under time pressure. Follow-through and exceptional attention to detail on all project tasks are essential.
- Use a variety of proprietary products and technologies to answer simple and complex client questions.
- Turn data results into client-facing deliverables that are informative and easy-to-use.
- Standardize ad hoc processes and drive continuous improvement for automating and optimizing performance of processes.
- Assist senior technical staff with the support of, upgrades of, and modifications to, existing advanced data products.
- Ensure clear and comprehensive documentation of analytic methodologies and new technical approaches.
- Represent MedInsight at client meetings and trainings.
Minimum 8 to 10 years of relevant work experience. Preference will be given to candidates with healthcare data experience and cloud solutions experience. Previous experience working with large healthcare claims and/or EHR databases preferred.
- Working knowledge of healthcare concepts and data structures.
- Familiarity with healthcare claims data and data analytic platforms.
- Ability to prioritize and manage concurrent projects.
- Strong organizational skills.
- Execute work with exceptional attention to detail on all project tasks.
- Ability to work independently and within a diverse team environment.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to prioritize tasks with little supervision and work under time pressure.
- Client consulting experience.
- Programming/development experience with Microsoft Azure, Databricks, Python.
- Proficiency in or more programming languages (Spark, SQL, Python, R, C#) preferred.
- Experience in managing or guiding organizations’ transitions from on-premise to cloud resources.
- Data warehousing and/or large IT project experience.
- Understanding of OLAP technologies.
- Experience working with large data sets.
- Advanced experience with Microsoft Excel.
- Experience with the Microsoft Office Suite of products.
- Healthcare informatics, analytics, and reporting knowledge.
- Educational Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in statistics, mathematics, computer science, information systems, finance, economics, engineering, or related fields.
- Desired Experience and Traits:
- Experience working with relational and big data database technologies (Databricks, Microsoft Azure). Experience collapsing, joining, merging data sets.
- Hands-on experience in creating microservices architecture and cloud-native applications.
- Hands-on experience in Agile design and implementation approaches.
- Experience in reducing costs and improving efficiencies in data analytics.
- Healthcare claims analysis experience a plus.
- Ability to translate complex healthcare data questions from clients or account managers into manageable tasks.
- Self-motivated, organized, and adaptable – adept at planning and execution, capable of prioritizing and accomplishing goals across a spectrum of concurrent tasks for varying stakeholders.
- Consultative and confident approach: Critical thinker, able to effectively comprehend complex business issues and develop solutions and communications that work for varying stakeholders.
- Detail-oriented: Recognizes that the small things make all the difference and pays attention to everything.
- Collaborative: Demonstrated ability to work with engineering and analytics teams to discuss technical concepts, make tradeoffs and evaluate new ideas.
- Intellectually curious: Desire and ability to learn new skills, systems, and processes, and interest in exploring data credibility and advanced analytic approaches.
- Energetic, optimistic, and hard-working: Maintains a can-do attitude and is unrelenting in the pursuit of excellence.
Above all else, we are looking for someone who is excited about working in a fast-paced environment, collaborating with individuals across multiple teams to solve problems, and developing data-driven solutions that make important information easy to access, understand and act upon.
The ideal candidate is an innovative self-starter with solid technical foundations, who is interested in working with our team of experienced professionals to make a measurable impact on the business challenges faced by healthcare organizations today. The Milliman MedInsight group has been rapidly growing within different segments of the healthcare field, with presence amongst payers, employers, providers, accountable care organizations, pharmacy benefit managers, digital health companies, and other types of organizations. Successful candidates will support a variety of custom analytic client engagements and will also have opportunities to develop within their position and grow within the larger team.
What makes this a great opportunity?
- Join an award-winning firm with a track record of growth backed by a marketplace powerhouse.
- Be part of the expansion and evolution of an analytics, technology, and research team in a data-driven company.
- Enjoy significant visibility and be recognized for your wins.
- Work with a tenured collaborative team that values diversification of thought and new ideas.
- Grow and develop your skills and experience in an organization that invests energy in your career trajectory every day.
- Accelerate data interoperability, advanced analytics, and optimal use of cloud technologies.
- Help client and partner organizations improve healthcare for populations and communities.
