At UpStream we believe good health is a state of independence where each person has the capacity to live a long, happy, and active life. We aim to deliver the type of care our members need to regain and maintain their independence by delivering effective, efficient, and sustainable care. We are a growing company and are excited to invite caring, detailed, and team-oriented people to join our team.

How you’ll help

As a member of UpStream’s Data & Analytics team your work will provide the necessary information and bring insights and meaning to available data that will be used by our care teams, physicians and practice partners to help improve the lives of the patients we touch. You will design, develop, implement, and maintain analytics tools and applications that support our strategic, operational, and financial goals and objectives and work collaboratively with business owners, clinicians, content subject matter experts and technical team members to meet UpStream’s reporting, analytics, and visualization needs. We believe that effective uses of data, analytics, and technology have the potential to accelerate innovation and transformation in healthcare and it will be your opportunity to participate in our innovations and your responsibility to balance long-term solutions and short-term operational priorities and the complexities of healthcare with the desire to support better health.

What you’ll do

• Design, develop, implement, and maintain analytics tools and applications including data workflows, interactive dashboards, data storytelling, and statistical analysis
• Engage with our internal stakeholders and team members and external partners (physicians and practice operations and care teams) to understand how data and analytics can be a catalyst for change and efficiency
• Drive innovation and transformation across our operations leveraging data and analytics
• Learn about healthcare transformation and determine how data and analytics can support our near- and long-term goals
• Understand the needs and challenges of a fast-growth organization and participate in its development

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  Building interactive analytics dashboards using tools like PowerBI (preferred), Tableau, Qlik or similar. Your work will primarily be in PowerBI
• Developing data pipelines, extracting data from sources, strong SQL-skills are a must have
• Working with healthcare data – including claims/administrative/financial data and/or clinical data (electronic health records) and experience in the weeds, not just reviewing reports
• Proven experience operating successfully within ambiguity; you are a results-oriented professional who can make sense of chaos to continually deliver desired results
• Demonstrated organizational skills and the ability to effectively manage competing priorities
• Excellent interpersonal communication and critical problem-solving skills; willingness to challenge yourself and others and take calculated risks to grow the business
• Deep passion for making an impact in healthcare with a desire to be an early member of a growing team
• Ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and can communicate information appropriately based on your audience
• Demonstrated humility with a low ego and a dedication to service

Preferred qualifications

• Focused experience with PowerBI including development of analytics applications at enterprise scale (used across organizations, embedded into other applications)
• Experience with Snowflake (preferred) or other cloud-based data management platforms
• Experience working on value-based care or population health programs
• Experience working in an agile delivery environment and aligning analytics activities with a DevOps/DataOps mindset
• Experience working with health care payors (health insurance companies) and working with Milliman’s MedInsight
• Health economics analysis and/or healthcare quality reporting (including knowledge of ICD, CPT, DRG and related healthcare cost and episode groupers, HEDIS, stars ratings, and other clinical nomenclature)
• Knowledge and experience working with protected health data including associated regulatory considerations including HIPAA

Location/working arrangements – This is a remote position with some travel required for team meetings and training sessions. Work must be performed from within the United States. Candidates residing in and whose primary work location is in the Eastern or Central Time Zones are preferred.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Job Keywords: Data Analyst, Analytics, Analytics Developer, Analytics Engineer, SQL, Python, PowerBI, Snowflake, Health Analyst, Health Economics, Health Quality, Health Financials, Population Health Analytics, Population Health, Value-Based Care