Business Intelligence Engineer - Cohere Health

Cohere Health is a fast-growing clinical intelligence company that’s improving lives at scale by promoting the best patient-specific care options, using cutting-edge AI combined with deep clinical expertise. In only four years our solutions have been adopted by health plans covering over 15 million lives, while our revenues and company size have quadrupled.  That growth combined with capital raises totaling $106M positions us extremely well for continued success. Our awards include: 2023 and 2024 BuiltIn Best Place to Work; Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup; TripleTree iAward; multiple KLAS Research Points of Light awards, along with recognition on Fierce Healthcares Fierce 15 and CB Insights Digital Health 150 lists.

Opportunity Overview:

We are in search of a proficient and enthusiastic Business Intelligence (BI) Engineer to become a valuable member of our dynamic team and play a key role in our mission of automating existing data infrastructure gaps and converting data into actionable insights. As a BI Engineer, you will collaborate with our team of skilled developers, product owners to construct reporting products, while upholding best practices and standards. You will report to the Senior Manager of Business Intelligence and join a Cohere team driven by a collective commitment to supporting healthcare providers and patients. This position offers the chance to have a substantial influence on the company, with the potential for rapid career advancement in a highly visible environment.

Last but not least: People who succeed here are empathetic teammates who are candid, kind, caring, and embody our core values and principles. We believe that diverse, inclusive teams make the most impactful work. Cohere is deeply invested in ensuring that we have a supportive, growth-oriented environment that works for everyone.

What you will do:

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand reporting needs and translate them into functional requirements.

• Be a subject matter expert on medical coding methodologies and clinical workflows.    

• Optimize and enhance existing reports to improve data accuracy and visualization effectiveness.

• Ensure data consistency and quality in reports by working closely with the data management team.

• Perform data analysis and ad-hoc queries to support business decision-making.

• Stay current with industry best practices and emerging BI technologies.

Your background & requirements:

• A minimum of 3+ years of professional experience in health informatics/ healthcare data analytics/ healthcare financial forecasting (working knowledge on hospital and professional services billing).

• Mandatory advanced knowledge of observation data analyses with large datasets including medical, provider, member, pharmacy, and eligibility data – including familiarity with working with claims at the code level (ICD-10, DRG, CPT/HCPCS, revenue codes).

• Knowledge on processing and analyzing large healthcare claims and payor datasets.

• Working knowledge on database architecture in cloud, relational databases, enterprise data warehouses and data lakes. 

• SQL experience required, Python / R is a plus.

• Proficiency in BI tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or equivalent. Tableau preferred. 

• Self-starter, able to work independently, able to succeed in a fast-paced, high intensity start-up environment.

• Excellent communication skills, with proven ability to create & deliver the results of analyses to non-technical audiences.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Math, Statistics, Biostatistics, Actuarial Science, or Economics, Health Informatics, Public Health required.