About Sound

Headquartered in Tacoma, WA, Sound Physicians is a physician-founded and led, national, multi-specialty medical group made up of more than 1,000 business colleagues and 4,000 physicians, APPs, CRNAs, and nurses practicing in 400-plus hospitals across 45 states. Founded in 2001, and with specialties in emergency and hospital medicine, critical care, anesthesia, and telemedicine, Sound has a reputation for innovating and leading through an ever-changing healthcare landscape — with patients at the center of the universe.

Sound Physicians offers a competitive benefits package inclusive of the items below, and more:

• Medical insurance, Dental insurance, and Vision insurance
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with a company match
• Paid time off (PTO) begins accruing immediately upon start date at a rate of 15 days per year, in accordance with Sound's PTO policy
• Ten company-paid holidays per year

About the role

The Senior Analyst, ACO is a motivated, detail-oriented professional who thrives in a collaborative and innovative healthcare environment. As part of the SLTCM ACO team, this role supports analytic operations across the Sound Long Term Care Management (SLTCM) ACOs and Telemedicine programs. Reporting to the Senior Director of Data Management and Analytics, the Analyst will oversee day-to-day data analytics activities, ensuring the quality, accuracy, and integrity of analytic deliverables while providing hands-on support using tools such as Databricks, Snowflake, and Power BI. This role also operates within Sound’s Unified Data Model (UDM), including medallion architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold) and star schema structures, and must be able to work effectively with CMS and vendor claims data sources that power analytics.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day analytics operations including project tracking, prioritization, and task assignment.

• Partner with Sound IT to support and enhance the data and analytics ecosystem using Databricks, Snowflake, and Power BI. Work within the Unified Data Model and support development of analytic data structures that align to medallion-layer and star-schema conventions.

• Validate and maintain integrity of ACO and Telemedicine data, ensuring completeness and accuracy. Evaluate and troubleshoot data lineage across Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers when issues arise.

• Work directly with internal stakeholders, clinicians, and external partners to deliver analyses that inform operational and quality performance initiatives.

• Develop and automate reports, dashboards, and visualizations that track key metrics and support decision-making. Design and maintain Power BI semantic models, shared datasets, and relationships with role and row-level security to support enterprise reporting.

• Collaborate with third-party vendors to manage data ingestion, transformation, and validation workflows. Participate in schema reviews, ingestion troubleshooting, and data-quality discussions with vendors to ensure compatibility with Sound’s UDM and ACO reporting needs.

• Identify opportunities to improve data processes, documentation, and analytic efficiency.

Values

• Teamwork: Works effectively with peers and cross-functional teams.

• Accountability: Takes ownership of deliverables and outcomes.

• Communication: Clearly conveys ideas, findings, and recommendations.

• Continuous Improvement: Seeks opportunities to enhance data processes and tools.

• Integrity: Maintains high standards for data quality and accuracy.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a detail-oriented mindset.

• Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements and actionable insights.

• Ability to work within governed data models, maintain consistent data grain, and diagnose modeling or lineage issues.

• Proven track record of developing and maintaining automated reports and dashboards.

• Ability to maintain production-grade Power BI datasets in a premium and Fabric workspace environment with environment separation and versioning control.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present complex information clearly.

• Collaborative team player with strong project management and organizational skills.

• Strong proficiency in SQL and familiarity with Python or PySpark for data processing and analysis.

• Experience working with CMS Claim and Claim Line Feed (CCLF) data preferred. Familiarity with ACO claims structure, attribution logic, and core cost/quality calculations preferred.

• Understanding of ACO programs and value-based care metrics a plus.

• Familiarity with cloud environments (Azure or similar).

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or related field (e.g., Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, or similar).

• 4–6 years of experience in data analytics, preferably within healthcare or value-based care programs.

• 1–2 years of experience leading or mentoring analysts or managing analytics projects.

Salary Range

• This position offers an annual salary range of $115,000-$125,000. Exact salary will depend on the candidate’s experience, education and geographic location.