Data Analyst, Clinical Division, Provincial Lab Data Analytics - Provincial Laboratory Medicine Services (PLMS)

• Receive and facilitate internal and external data requests for planning, policy making and research purposes by engaging with the stakeholders, understanding the information needs and reviewing data information requested.
• Perform the necessary analysis including: data extraction and queries; ensuring data quality (checking and cleaning); data manipulation, linkage and aggregation; and statistical analysis and modelling
• Produce information findings through regular and ad hoc reports and dashboards using business intelligence and reporting software. These information products may monitor and benchmark costs, utilization and other quality and performance indicators for transfusion medicine, laboratory medicine and pathology, and other clinical areas.
• Interpret these findings and provide advice and recommendations.
• Present findings to different audience (ex: clinicians, operational staff, administrators and patients) at an appropriate level
• Provide support for the development and maintenance of data collections such as databases, spreadsheets, reports and other relevant applications.
• Write SQL and other programming code to perform queries and analysis.
• Provide statistical analyses and/or modeling for internal and external use such as time series, regressions, data mining and simulation model.
• Create, implement and perform routine data quality reviews and audits on data registries and web applications.
• Utilize reporting and business intelligence applications such as JReport and Tableau. This involves creating and adding new reports, users and groups to the system and ensuring a proper privilege framework is in place for all users.
• Provide day-to-day support working with database such as ad-hoc querying and providing periodic insertions of information submitted by partner agencies.
• Generate proper technical documentation on the current reporting environment and on all reports and data extracts.
• Perform other related duties as required.

• Communicate findings in a meaningful manner to internal staff and external stakeholders at the local, regional, provincial and national levels.
• Consult internal stakeholders to gather report specifications; identify and provide advice to internal stakeholders about data limitations and ensures adequate data quality for analytical purposes.
• Participate in the preparation and presentation of educational material related to statistical data collection to internal and external stakeholders. Provide training to other internal staff as required.

• Not responsible for managing or overseeing a team.
• Provide advice and recommendations to leadership.

• Retrieve and extract data, analyzes and summarizes statistical information, performs complex calculations and tallies.
• Understand and evaluate the limitations of the data, analyses and statistical calculations.
• Interpret the data and information, and its potential applicability.
• Propose alternative methods to obtain, extract and analyze data to improve data quality and decision support.
• Choose the most appropriate method to disseminate findings (ex: reports, presentations, other visualizations).

• No responsibility.

• A level of education, training, and experience equivalent to or greater than a Bachelor’s Degree in Health Informatics, Math, Statistics, Computer or Health Science, Operations Research or Data Science, or a related program with a minimum of five to seven years of recent related experience working with health and statistical information in a sophisticated computer environment.
• Minimum of five years of work experience including the use of Structured Query Language (SQL) and working with data warehousing, integration, mining and report writing, such as Business Objects / SAP BI / SPSS / Cognos / Oracle BI/ Jreport or other Statistical / Analytical / Visualization tools such as Tableau/R/SAS).

• Demonstrated ability to perform data manipulation, analysis and information presentation at a moderate to advanced level through the use of database, spreadsheet and statistical software. Moderate to advanced data management skills and a high degree of computer literacy are required.
• Superior analytical and problem solving skills, including the ability to troubleshoot, comprehend, analyze and resolve complex issues.
• Moderate to advanced knowledge of relational database modeling and query writing tools to create ad-hoc queries and reports.
• Demonstrated ability to develop complex and customized SQL queries for relational databases, with applied experience with business intelligence tools (ex: Tableau, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects)
• Knowledge of descriptive statistics, statistical inference and modeling using statistical software such as SPSS, R and/or SAS.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
• Strong interpersonal skills and collaboration skills and the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships internally and externally.
• Excellent organizational skills, attentive to detail with the ability to multi-task and prioritize workload and work quickly and accurately under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Commitment to upholding the shared responsibility of creating lasting and meaningful reconciliation in Canada as per TRC (2015) and BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019).
• Knowledge of social, economic, political and historical realities impacting indigenous communities and familiarity with Indigenous Cultural Safety and anti-racism and accompanying reports (BC DRIPA, TRC, etc.).

• Join one of BC’s largest employers with province-wide programs, services and operations – offering vast opportunities for growth, development, and recognition programs that honour the commitment and contribution of all employees.
• Access to professional development opportunities through our in-house training programs, including +2,000 courses, such as our San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training course, or Core Linx for Leadership roles.
• Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including municipal pension plan, and psychological health & safety programs and holistic wellness resources.
• Annual statutory holidays (13) with generous vacation entitlement and accruement.
• PHSA is a remote work friendly employer, welcoming flexible work options to support our people (eligibility may vary, depending on position).
• Access to WorkPerks, a premium discount program offering a wide range of local and national discounts on electronics, entertainment, dining, travel, wellness, apparel, and more.

Provincial Health Services Authority