Manager, Data and Business Analysis

The role

You will lead a distributed team of Business and Data Analysts within Client Solutions. You will manage people, capacity, and delivery while remaining hands-on with technical analysis and client requirements.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and develop a geographically distributed team of Business and Data Analysts.
• Manage day-to-day people leadership including performance management and workload allocation.
• Manage and balance team capacity and priorities across multiple client programs.
• Establish standards and best practices for requirements gathering and data analysis.
• Review and guide team deliverables to ensure they are technically sound.
• Lead complex US healthcare payer data and implementation engagements.
• Translate client business, regulatory, and operational needs into requirements and designs.
• Guide analysts in data profiling, data-quality analysis, and root-cause investigations.
• Use SQL and analytical tools to validate findings and investigate data issues.
• Partner with Data Engineering, QA, Product, and Program Management to drive delivery.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Administration, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 8+ years of experience in Business Analysis, Data Analysis, healthcare consulting/technology, or related roles.
• Strong exposure to the US healthcare payer domain.
• Proven people management experience leading geographically distributed teams.
• Strong knowledge of US payer data and business processes including claims, provider, membership/eligibility, prior authorization, encounters, clinical, and benefits data.
• Hands-on experience with payer-focused use cases and regulatory initiatives such as HEDIS/Stars, risk adjustment, prior authorization, CMS interoperability, FHIR, and other healthcare interoperability
• Strong SQL and healthcare data analysis skills.
• Experience working with large, complex datasets and modern data platforms such as Databricks and/or Snowflake.
• Experience with healthcare data modeling, data profiling, reconciliation, root-cause analysis, and data-quality investigations.
• Experience gathering and translating business and data requirements into implementation-ready documentation.
• Proven client-facing experience leading requirements discussions with senior stakeholders.
• Strong communication, organization, and attention to detail.

Nice to have

• Experience with additional payer use cases such as payment integrity, value-based care, provider analytics, care management, utilization management, or population health.
• Experience with Python or similar analytical/automation technologies.
• Experience with BI and visualization tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
• Experience growing teams, developing future leaders, and supporting hiring and succession planning.
• Experience working within consulting, client implementation, or SaaS/data-platform delivery organizations.
• Highly organized, self-motivated, and comfortable operating with limited supervision in complex delivery environments.
• Strong commitment to staying current with US healthcare regulations, payer priorities, data standards, interoperability requirements, and emerging technologies.

Benefits

• Competitive Leave & Benefits
• Comprehensive health coverage
• Equity for every employee
• Growth-focused environment

Before you apply

• All interviews are conducted by live video with your camera on.
• Candidates may be asked to complete identity and location verification.

About the company

Abacus Insights is transforming how data and AI work for health plans. They provide an AI and Data Platform for Payer Intelligence to help health plans create a single, trusted data foundation.