Technical Analyst Data and Systems

Your future role at a glance

Location: Remote 

Department/Specialty: Data Delivery Governance 

Schedule: Day shift | Full-time 

Salary Range: $96,208.99 - $134,109.89 per year 

How you'll make an impact in this role

• Perform deep-dive data profiling on source datasets to evaluate quality, completeness, and anomalies, ensuring data is primed for integration into enterprise platforms.
• Utilize Google BigQuery to execute complex SQL queries, validate transformations, and build reusable datasets and views to support downstream analytics.
• Conduct detailed data flow analysis to map source-to-target relationships, establish data lineage, and identify dependencies across databases and applications.
• Partner with product managers and data engineers to translate business needs into technical requirements and define scalable integration strategies.
• Lead root cause analysis for data discrepancies and monitor quality metrics to implement effective remediation and cleansing strategies.
• Support the testing of new ingestion pipelines and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, including schema metadata and system inventories.

What minimum qualifications you'll need

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.

What additional requirements you'll need

• Technical Proficiency: Strong SQL skills (advanced queries, views) for data extraction and validation using BigQuery SQL or equivalent tool such as Redshift
• Data Profiling Tools: Strong hands-on experience with data profiling tools (e.g., Informatica Data Quality, Talend, IBM InfoSphere, or techniques using SQL, specialized Python libraries and relational database knowledge
• Proficient in Healthcare data modeling (Star Schema, Dimensional), metadata management, and applying data governance and stewardship best practices.

Life at Ascension: Where purpose meets opportunity

Ascension is a leading nonprofit Catholic health system with a culture and associate experience grounded in service, growth, care and connection. We empower our 97,000+ associates to bring their skills and expertise every day to reimagining healthcare, together. Recognized as one of the Best 150+ Places to Work in Healthcare and a Military-Friendly Gold Employer, you’ll find an inclusive and supportive environment where your contributions truly matter.

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Ascension provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all associates and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions, lactation, breastfeeding, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, all as defined by applicable law, and any other legally protected status or characteristic in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. For further information, view the EEO Know Your Rights (English) poster or EEO Know Your Rights (Spanish) poster.

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Benefits

Paid time off (PTO)Various health insurance options & wellness plansRetirement benefits including employer match plansLong-term & short-term disabilityEmployee assistance programs (EAP)Parental leave & adoption assistanceTuition reimbursementWays to give back to your community

 

Benefit options and eligibility vary by position. Compensation varies based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, performance, location and salary range at the time of the offer.