Data Analyst, CAADSI

Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health including service delivery that is centered around patients/clients/residents and families: 

The Data Analyst provides analytics support to the Indigenous Health department through partnership with the CAADSI department. Applying expert knowledge, the Data Analyst performs business intelligence (BI), data extraction, data analysis, and performance reporting to provide evidence-based review of service utilization, health interventions, technology and performance assessments. The Data Analyst plans and develops BI reporting by engaging with healthcare stakeholders across the organization, analyzing operational, clinical, financial, and human resource data and applying knowledge in performance measurement and benchmarking methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with business units and rightsholders to identify reporting needs, analyze current procedures, explore opportunities, reduce redundancies and ensure data gathering and reporting processes support corporate strategies and business objectives.
• Designs and develops BI reporting solutions using reporting tools such as SQL, Power BI, or Tableau.
• Provides detailed analysis, advice, insight, and interpretation from complex data across multiple sources.
• Conducts performance reporting benchmarking and best practices research, makes recommendations for improvement, and facilitates the adoption of emerging analytical methodologies and technologies.
• Develops and seeks continuous improvement to the performance reporting processes, including report automations and the coordination of reporting inputs, analyses and distributions.
• Provides quality assurance and a value-added review of reporting inputs to promote high standards for quality and insight. Ensures the analytics solutions are aligned with CAADSI production standards and guidelines, such as data definitions and UI/UX visualizations.
• Provides expertise across different phases of system implementation life cycle to ensure reporting requirements meet established guidelines and standards, and performs corrective action as required.
• Prepares strategic business cases and supporting documents, briefing papers, strategic and tactical reports for an assigned area and/or portfolio for submission to Fraser Health Executive, Board of Directors and other stakeholders.
• Collaborates with members of the CAADSI department, senior management, staff of various organizational units and other internal and external stakeholders in support of the mission, philosophies and goals of Fraser Health.
• This includes synthesizing and analyzing data on patient services, interpreting information, participating in the development of recommendations for improvements in a continuous agile partnership, and performing tasks such as assisting in selecting appropriate outcome measures and furthering understanding of patient reported experience and outcome metrics. 
• Integrates Indigenous cultural safety and anti-racism principles throughout data analysis, interpretation, and reporting to ensure findings reflect equity, respect, and Indigenous worldviews.
• Works collaboratively with Indigenous Health leaders and community partners to ensure data tools and reports are responsive to community priorities and uphold principles of self-determination and ethical data governance.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and/or related applied quantitative scientific field, plus five (5) to seven (7) years of related experience in decision support, data analysis, performance reporting, and/or health care management, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience. Experience with T-SQL and Power BI is preferred.

Competencies

Demonstrates the leadership practices of the Fraser Health Leadership Framework of Clear, Caring and Courageous and creates the conditions for people to succeed.

Professional/Technical Capabilities

• Demonstrated understanding of the relational multidimensional database concepts.
• Working knowledge of big data analytics and statistics.
• Ability to operate related equipment including applicable software applications.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team environment and independently.
• Ability to plan, organizer and prioritize work and deadlines.
• Working knowledge of PDSA, Lean, Six Sigma and other flow process improvement concepts.
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of the health care system.
• Knowledge of other health care disciplines and their role within healthcare.
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.
• Understanding/willingness to learn about Indigenous cultural safety, humility, and anti-racism frameworks within healthcare and data contexts.
• Awareness/willingness to learn about of Indigenous data sovereignty and governance principles, including OCAP, and their application to health data.

Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health including service delivery that is centered around patients/clients/residents and families:
The Data Analyst provides leadership and analytics support to the CAADSI department. Applying expert knowledge, the Data Analyst performs business intelligence (BI), data extraction, data analysis, and performance reporting to provide evidence-based review of service utilization, health interventions, technology and performance assessments. The Data Analyst plans and develops BI reporting by engaging with healthcare stakeholders across the organization, analyzing operational, clinical, financial, and human resource data and applying knowledge in performance measurement and benchmarking methodologies.

1. Collaborates with business units and stakeholders to identify reporting needs, analyze current procedures, explore opportunities, reduce redundancies and ensure data gathering and reporting processes support corporate strategies and business objectives.
2. Designs and develops BI reporting solutions using reporting tools such as SQL, Power BI, or Tableau.
3. Provides detailed analysis, advice, insight, and interpretation from complex data across multiple sources.
4. Conducts performance reporting benchmarking and best practices research, makes recommendations for improvement, and facilitates the adoption of emerging analytical methodologies and technologies.
5. Develops and seeks continuous improvement to the performance reporting processes, including report automations and the coordination of reporting inputs, analyses and distributions.
6. Provides quality assurance and a value-added review of reporting inputs to promote high standards for quality and insight. Ensures the analytics solutions are aligned with CAADSI production standards and guidelines, such as data definitions and UI/UX visualizations.
7. Provides expertise across different phases of system implementation life cycle to ensure reporting requirements meet established guidelines and standards, and performs corrective action as required.
8. Prepares strategic business cases and supporting documents, briefing papers, strategic and tactical reports for an assigned area and/or portfolio for submission to Fraser Health Executive, Board of Directors and other stakeholders.
9. Collaborates with members of the CAADSI department, senior management, staff of various organizational units and other internal and external stakeholders in support of the mission, philosophies and goals of Fraser Health.
10. This includes synthesizing and analyzing data on patient services, interpreting information, participating in the development of recommendations for improvements in a continuous agile partnership, and performing tasks such as assisting in selecting appropriate outcome measures and furthering understanding of patient reported experience and outcome metrics.

Education and Experience

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and/or related applied quantitative scientific field, plus five (5) to seven (7) years of related experience in decision support, data analysis, performance reporting, and/or health care management, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience. Experience with T-SQL and Power BI is preferred.

Competencies

Demonstrates the leadership practices of the Fraser Health Leadership Framework of Clear, Caring and Courageous and creates the conditions for people to succeed.

Professional/Technical Capabilities

• Demonstrated understanding of the relational multidimensional database concepts.
• Working knowledge of big data analytics and statistics.
• Ability to operate related equipment including applicable software applications.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team environment and independently.
• Ability to plan, organizer and prioritize work and deadlines.
• Working knowledge of PDSA, Lean, Six Sigma and other flow process improvement concepts.
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of the health care system.
• Knowledge of other health care disciplines and their role within healthcare.
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka'pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.
 
People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 50,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.
 
We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health's hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.
 
Together, we are the heart of health care.
 
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