Health Informatics Senior Analyst
Athena Actuarial Consulting
Minneapolis, MN
Information Technology, Engineering
Type: Full-Time, Salaried
What You’ll Do 🔍
As a Senior Health Informatics Analyst, you will play a key role on client teams, taking ownership of your work and collaborating closely with our client team. You’ll support important Medicaid-focused projects by analyzing data, building models, and contributing insights that help shape client strategies. The Senior Health Informatics Analyst role also provides opportunities to engage with clients, support new business efforts, and participate in Athena’s broader community. This position offers a strong foundation for a consulting career, with opportunities to advance through progressively challenging roles.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain advanced SQL or SAS queries to support business intelligence and analytics efforts.
- Researching and gathering information to support project work
- Providing input to the development of effective solutions
- Creating, updating, and maintaining actuarial programs and Excel models
- Assisting with the preparation of client reports and presentations
- Participating in Athena’s strategy meetings and providing feedback on community initiatives
- Demonstrating a strong commitment to personal and professional integrity while supporting Athena’s mission and values
Must-Haves:
- 3–5 years of experience in health informatics data analytics roles
- Advanced SQL or SAS skills required; must be proficient in writing complex queries to implement business logic and derive insights from large datasets
- Proven problem-solving skills and a strong drive to learn
- Commitment to Athena’s mission and values
- Ability to work independently and thrive in a remote-first environment
- Proficiency in MS Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
- Experience with Medicaid, Medicare, or other public health programs
- Experience with calculating healthcare quality metrics (e.g. HEDIS)
- Progress or interest in pursuing an actuarial exam track
- Paid Time Off & Holidays
- Flexible Schedule Opportunities
- Medical Coverage — 100% Employer-Paid Employee Premium
- Dental & Vision Coverage
- Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Paid Parental Leave
- Life Insurance
- 401(k) with Employer Match
- Annual Bonus Opportunity
At Athena, we believe actuarial consulting and specialty advisory services is more than just calculating risk: It’s a lens for reimagining what’s possible. That’s why we’ve built a team of passionate experts who infuse the power of data and predictive modeling with imagination, human insight, and a commitment to helping people thrive.
Every day at Athena, we seek to live and lead—to serve and solve problems—with courage as our fuel. That means challenging assumptions in search of untapped potential that benefits our clients. It looks like striving to ask better questions that might yield breakthrough answers for a community. And it means seeing people not as problems, but full of possibility—because we know the future isn’t prescribed, it’s built. Courage is a competitive advantage in actuarial consulting—not just because it emboldens people, but because it moves businesses forward.
Athena is a new kind of actuarial services company, founded by a former leader at a ”Big 4” firm who had a vision and drive to build something different. We tackle big challenges with small teams of experienced pros who look beyond traditional risk modeling to find innovative solutions.
Additional Info
- Candidates must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents
- We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other legally protected status
About the company
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ATHENA is a woman-owned partnership focused on mitigating risk and identifying opportunity in the way that humans are cared for, compensated, benefitted and incentivized through actuarial services, data analytics and people-centered strategies.
Our mission-driven approach to empowering our employees to bring their best, whole self to each project translates to innovative and holistic solutions for our clients and their covered populations. Whether it's a fellow consulting firm, a community-based healthcare program or an employer-sponsored fund, we approach each ask from our clients with the true client in mind - the ultimate beneficiaries of the program we're supporting and their families. Our clients rely on our sensitivity to their needs, team-player mentality, and "tell it like it is" attitude to have the data and the confidence to enact change within their own organizations; we are proud to support them as a collaborative, empathetic, and focused extension of their team every day.