Lead Data Analyst

About the role

Cohere Health seeks a Lead Data Analyst to lead a team building and maintaining high-quality healthcare market datasets and analytics that power internal insights, benchmarking, and external thought leadership. Day-to-day, you will mentor analysts in data methodology, establish analytic standards and governance, oversee data quality and change-detection, collaborate with Data Engineering and Platform teams, and translate analytic outputs into business insights and benchmarks. This role is based in Hyderabad, Telangana, India.

What you’ll do

• Lead and develop a team of data analysts responsible for the creation, validation, and ongoing refresh of healthcare market datasets
• Mentor analysts in data methodology, statistical reasoning, and reproducible analytics practices
• Establish analytic standards, coding practices, and documentation expectations for reproducible and scalable datasets and insights
• Establish and maintain governance processes for market data including versioning, documentation, auditability, and traceability
• Oversee change-detection logic to systematically identify and document additions, removals, and shifts in the market dataset
• Define and enforce data quality standards across ingestion, transformation, and analysis workflows
• Collaborate with Data Engineering and Platform teams to ensure scalable data infrastructure supports ingestion, transformation, and analytics workflows
• Translate analytic outputs into business insights, benchmarks, and structured datasets supporting product strategy, commercial enablement, and thought leadership

What you’ll bring

• 7+ years of professional experience in data analytics, data science, or quantitative analysis in a production environment
• Strong proficiency in Python and data analysis libraries (Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib)
• Advanced SQL querying and ability to work with large datasets
• Strong understanding of statistics, data analysis methods, and pattern detection in complex datasets
• Experience managing multiple concurrent analytics projects and prioritizing work across a team of analysts
• Experience designing analytic frameworks or benchmark datasets used by business teams or external stakeholders
• Experience managing data quality, data governance, and dataset lifecycle management
• Experience evaluating and applying modern analytics or AI techniques (including LLM-based tools where appropriate) to enrich datasets or accelerate analytic workflows

Nice to have

• Background in healthcare payment integrity, clinical data workflows, or payer/provider analytics
• Thought leadership in analytics-driven market intelligence, benchmarking, or healthcare data insights
• Experience working with healthcare claims, authorization, or utilization management data
• Experience producing market intelligence, benchmarking studies, or industry datasets
• Familiarity with healthcare payer workflows or healthcare analytics environments
• Familiarity with compliance, governance, and security best practices for healthcare data (HIPAA, PHI handling, logging, auditing)
• Ability to commute or relocate to Hyderabad, Telangana before starting work

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