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Senior Research Analyst
Aledade
IT
Bethesda, MD, USA
Posted on Nov 13, 2025
The Senior Research Analyst will support Aledade’s strategic approach to risk stratification and documentation with analyses that leverage rich data sources including Medicare claims, payer sourced data, and electronic health records.
Participate in the development and refinement of forecasting models to support enterprise-wide projections, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
Develop and maintain documentation and reporting frameworks to ensure transparency, reproducibility, and compliance with internal and external standards.
Provide subject matter expertise in risk analytics, offering insights and recommendations to partners within the broader Impact Analytics team. Work cross-functionally with partners across actuary, product and engineering organizations to drive insights.
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in healthcare analytics, an understanding of both risk adjustment and population health strategies, a passion for having a direct impact on primary care practices, and contributing to a data-driven organization.
Primary Duties
- Understand the problem space:
- Work with teams across Aledade and external partners to understand and clarify questions and issues for data analysis and experiments.
- Design and program code to integrate, evaluate, and analyze diverse data sources to support risk adjustment for all Medicare populations.
- Work closely with other team members on forecasting and modeling MA risk scores.
- Design descriptive, predictive, and/or causal inference statistical analyses to answer key business questions.
- Perform data analysis and statistical modeling to generate actionable insights and solutions.
- Support junior colleagues in programming, model implementation and knowledge transfers.
- Work across teams at Aledade to synthesize results, identify implications of analysis results and translate findings into action.
- Lead development of analytic products that accurately communicate insights from the data and inspire action.
- Work closely with engineering, business intelligence and product partners to enable analytic solutions.
Design and execute analyses:
Translate and communicate analysis results:
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree with 6+ years of relevant experience.
- An advanced degree may substitute for some experience.
Preferred KSA’s
- Experience with SQL for data manipulation and Python for statistical programming
- Experience with healthcare data sources such as medical or pharmacy claims, electronic health record, event notification, clinical, and patient reported data, and working in a complex enterprise data warehouse
- Knowledge of CMS Risk Adjustment models, CMS data files, and methods for developing trend assumptions.
- Masters in health services research, mathematics/statistics, epidemiology, biostatistics, econometrics, or related field
- Excellent quantitative analysis abilities, with demonstrated ability to conduct nuanced analyses to produce accurate and unbiased results and tell the story of those results in data visualizations, presentations, and reports.
- Attention to detail, particularly with version control (e.g. Git), quality assurance, documentation, and building repeatable processes
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and manage competing deadlines and priorities.
- Values people with differing backgrounds and perspectives; supports effective interpersonal and intercultural engagement
- Committed to serving teammates and patients with empathy and respect
- Ability to manage projects through the entire life cycle, from design through implementation, documentation, and presentation of findings
- Thinks beyond their immediate team and contributes to making Aledade holistically better (active engagement in employee resource groups, equity and belonging initiatives, book/journal clubs, facilitating training, leading roundtables, etc.)
Physical Requirements
- Sitting for prolonged periods of time. Extensive use of computers and keyboard.
Who We Are:
Aledade, a public benefit corporation, exists to empower the most transformational part of our health care landscape - independent primary care. We were founded in 2014, and since then, we've become the largest network of independent primary care in the country - helping practices, health centers and clinics deliver better care to their patients and thrive in value-based care. Additionally, by creating value-based contracts across a wide variety of health plans, we aim to flip the script on the traditional fee-for-service model. Our work strengthens continuity of care, aligns incentives and ensures primary care physicians are paid for what they do best - keeping patients healthy. If you want to help create a health care system that is good for patients, good for practices and good for society - and if you're eager to join a collaborative, inclusive and remote-first culture - you've come to the right place.
What Does This Mean for You?
At Aledade, you will be part of a creative culture that is driven by a passion for tackling complex issues with respect, open-mindedness and a desire to learn. You will collaborate with team members who bring a wide range of experiences, interests, backgrounds, beliefs and achievements to their work - and who are all united by a shared passion for public health and a commitment to the Aledade mission.
In addition to time off to support work-life balance and enjoyment, we offer the following comprehensive benefits package designed for the overall well-being of our team members:
Flexible work schedules and the ability to work remotely are available for many roles
Health, dental and vision insurance paid up to 80% for employees, dependents and domestic partners
Robust time-off plan (21 days of PTO in your first year)
Two paid volunteer days and 11 paid holidays
12 weeks paid parental leave for all new parents
Six weeks paid sabbatical after six years of service
Educational Assistant Program and Clinical Employee Reimbursement Program
401(k) with up to 4% match
Stock options
And much more!
At Aledade, we don’t just accept differences, we celebrate them! We strive to attract, develop and retain highly qualified individuals representing the diverse communities where we live and work. Aledade is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Employment policies and decisions at Aledade are based on merit, qualifications, performance and business needs. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth or medical conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth), gender identity or expression, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, legally protected genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or sexual orientation.
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