Sr Data Analyst

Job Title: Sr. Data Analyst
Location: Remote (PST preferred)
Contract Type/Duration: Long Term Contract

Job Description

Position Overview:
We are seeking a highly skilled Sr. Data Analyst with extensive experience in mainframe environments and a strong background in data analysis and reporting.

The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of COBOL, VSAM file structures, JCL, and TSO, and will be responsible for extracting, cleansing, and preparing data for loading into a data warehouse.

Responsibilities:

• Extract data from various sources, cleanse it, and prepare it for loading into a data warehouse.
• Perform system development life cycle functions including project planning, requirements analysis, program specifications, coding, testing, and implementation.
• Develop and maintain production reports using statistical reporting data tools such as SAS.
• Work with paid and denied claims data, including diagnosis codes, procedure codes, and data standards (PHI, privacy standards, HIPAA data elements, and code sets).
• Provide mainframe development and analysis for EDW with highly complex data models associated with 100+ data sources.

Required Skills/Attributes:

• Five (5) years of experience working in a mainframe environment with knowledge of COBOL, VSAM file structures, JCL, and TSO.
• Intermediate level experience with developing program specifications, pseudo code, or logic diagrams, including Warnier-Orr diagrams to identify system changes.
• Five (5) years of experience with front-end data warehouse processing.
• Five (5) years of experience as an analyst-programmer performing various system development life cycle functions.
• Five (5) years of experience working with statistical reporting data tools such as SAS for large volume databases.

Preferred Skills/Attributes:

• Extensive technical expertise in mainframe environments.
• Analytic experience through database querying with healthcare data.
• Experience with technical mainframe knowledge in a healthcare environment.

Required Skills : SAS, Cobol, VSAM file structures, JCL and TSO

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Additional Skills :

Background Check : Yes

Drug Screen : Yes

Notes :
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Candidate must be your W2 Employee :Yes
Exclusive to Apex :No
Face to face interview required :No
Candidate must be local :No
Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship ::No
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