Details Department: Data Delivery & GovernanceSchedule: Monday-Friday, 8am-5pmLocation: Remote
Benefits

Paid time off (PTO)
Various health insurance options & wellness plans
Retirement benefits including employer match plans
Long-term & short-term disability
Employee assistance programs (EAP)
Parental leave & adoption assistance
Tuition reimbursement
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Benefit options and eligibility vary by position. Compensation varies based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, performance and salary range at the time of the offer.

Responsibilities

Ascension is seeking a Technical Analyst to join our Data Delivery and Governance team. This role will support enterprise data solutions with a strong focus on data profiling, system analysis, and hands-on work within Google BigQuery. The successful candidate will play a critical role in evaluating, profiling, and integrating data from various source systems into enterprise repositories, supporting the needs of Master Data Management (MDM), analytics, and downstream business functions.

This position requires strong technical acumen, a keen attention to detail in data analysis, and the ability to collaborate effectively with data engineers, product managers, and business analysts.

Perform data profiling on incoming source datasets to assess data quality, completeness, value distributions, anomalies, and mapping readiness for integration into enterprise systems including MDM and data platforms.Conduct detailed system and data flow analysis, identifying source/target relationships, data lineage, and dependencies between applications, APIs, and databases.Work hands-on in Google BigQuery to write complex SQL queries, validate transformations, evaluate performance, and build reusable datasets and views.Partner with business analysts and product managers to translate business requirements into technical data requirements and support functional/data mapping.Document source-to-target mapping specifications, transformation logic, and data validation rules across domains such as Person, Provider, Location, Encounter, and Member.Analyze data discrepancies, support root cause analysis, and identify data remediation strategies across systems.Collaborate with data engineers and solution architects to define integration strategies, data orchestration logic, and support data model design.Provide feedback to enhance data ingestion and transformation pipelines to ensure scalability and re-usability.Monitor and report on data quality metrics; support data cleansing, enrichment, and stewardship activities.Assist in testing and validation efforts for new data pipelines, MDM match rules, and integrated views.Maintain technical documentation for profiling outputs, schema metadata, and systems inventory.
Requirements

Education:

High School diploma equivalency with 2 years of cumulative experience OR Associate's degree/Bachelor's degree OR 4 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required.
Additional Preferences 3+ years of experience in technical data analysis or data engineering roles, preferably in a healthcare or regulated environment.Expert-level SQL skills, with a focus on performance-tuned queries in Google BigQuery or other cloud-native data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift).Strong hands-on experience in data profiling tools or techniques using SQL, Python, or third-party solutions (e.g., Informatica Data Quality, Talend, DQOps).Experience analyzing data across multiple systems (e.g., EHRs, ERPs, CRM, EMPI, MDM, Portals).Familiarity with data integration methods: APIs, ETL/ELT pipelines, batch ingestion, real-time streaming.Understanding of data modeling concepts (e.g., normalized, dimensional, star schema) and metadata management.Strong documentation skills, especially in data flow diagrams, data dictionaries, profiling summaries, and mapping specs.Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently with minimal supervision.Working knowledge of data governance and data stewardship practices is a plus.Experience in Agile development environments using Jira, Confluence, Git is preferred.

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