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The Data Science Analyst I collaborates with stakeholders from across the organization to develop sophisticated analytics to provide information, insights and BI (Business Intelligence) solutions that contribute to sound strategic planning, decision-making, goal setting, and effective performance measurement. This individual demonstrates sound understanding of the healthcare domain, technical data manipulation and analytic development skills and impact the patient community of the Mount Sinai Health System.
Responsibilities
- Analyzes data requests using information technology, enrollment, claims, pharmacy, clinical, contract, medical management, financial, administrative and other corporate data from both modeled and disparate internal and external sources.
- Works with departmental staff to identify requirements for reporting and / or business intelligence tools.
- Identifies necessary data, data sources and methodologies.
- Collects, organizes, integrates, analyzes and interprets data.
- Leverages advanced statistical analysis methods to create insightful recommendations and conclusions that may be communicated to the stakeholder.
- Identifies and addresses expected and unforeseen data complexities to mitigate their impact on the analytic outcome and associated business decisions. Works to improve data quality where possible within created analytical models. Feeds data quality issues back to IT or identified data stewards to facilitate creation of high-quality metrics.
- Develops and may present reports, analyses and findings to senior management and others as scheduled or requested.
- Acts as liaison/analyst for internal stakeholders, understands their needs and translates them into reporting and analytic solutions.
- Effectively communicates with stakeholders and customers and ensures all requests are properly triaged, recorded and tracked.
- Adheres to corporate standards for performance metrics, data collection, data integrity, query design, and reporting format to ensure high quality, meaningful analytic output.
- Helps identify and understand data from internal and external sources for competitive, scenario and performance analyses, and financial modeling to gain member/provider insight into new and existing processes and business opportunities.
- Works closely with IT on the ongoing improvement of Mount Sinai’s integrated data warehouse, driven by strategic and business needs, and designed to ensure data and reporting consistency throughout the organization.
- Develops and maintains project work plans, including critical tasks, milestones, timelines, interdependencies and contingencies. Tracks and reports progress. Keeps stakeholders apprised of project status and implications for completion.
- Prepares clear, well-organized project-specific documentation, including, at a minimum, analytic methods used, key decision points and caveats, with sufficient detail to support comprehension and replication.
- Demonstrate proficiency with the principles and methodologies of process improvement. Applies these in the execution of responsibilities in support of a process focused approach.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- BA or BS degree minimum, in a relevant field of study; Master’s degree preferred.
- 2 years minimum is preferred in analytics development expertise, preferably in health care, or for a health provider, health plan or accountable care organization, including either:
- Working knowledge of healthcare EMR platforms such as Epic/Clarity, with demonstrated proficiency in SQL and Python to procure data and build efficient data pipelines.
- Experience working in healthcare provider analytics related to revenue modeling, managed care contracting, population management, case management, clinical or financial decision report.
Employer Description
Strength through Unity and Inclusion
The Mount Sinai Health System is committed to fostering an environment where everyone can contribute to excellence. We share a common dedication to delivering outstanding patient care. When you join us, you become part of Mount Sinai’s unparalleled legacy of achievement, education, and innovation as we work together to transform healthcare. We encourage all team members to actively participate in creating a culture that ensures fair access to opportunities, promotes inclusive practices, and supports the success of every individual. At Mount Sinai, our leaders are committed to fostering a workplace where all employees feel valued, respected, and empowered to grow. We strive to create an environment where collaboration, fairness, and continuous learning drive positive change, improving the well-being of our staff, patients, and organization. Our leaders are expected to challenge outdated practices, promote a culture of respect, and work toward meaningful improvements that enhance patient care and workplace experiences. We are dedicated to building a supportive and welcoming environment where everyone has the opportunity to thrive and advance professionally. Explore this opportunity and be part of the next chapter in our history.
About The Mount Sinai Health System
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 48,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes more than 9,000 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics, top 5 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, and top 20 in Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 11 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.
Equal Opportunity Employer
The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer, complying with all applicable federal civil rights laws. We do not discriminate, exclude, or treat individuals differently based on race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are deeply committed to fostering an environment where all faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve feel respected and supported. Our goal is to create a healthcare and learning institution that actively works to remove barriers, address challenges, and promote fairness in all aspects of our organization.
Compensation
The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides salary ranges that comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $72,473 - $106,049.07 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and operational need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.
Description
The Data Science Analyst I collaborates with stakeholders from across the organization to develop sophisticated analytics to provide information, insights and BI (Business Intelligence) solutions that contribute to sound strategic planning, decision-making, goal setting, and effective performance measurement. This individual demonstrates sound understanding of the healthcare domain, technical data manipulation and analytic development skills and impact the patient community of the Mount Sinai Health System.
Responsibilities
- Analyzes data requests using information technology, enrollment, claims, pharmacy, clinical, contract, medical management, financial, administrative and other corporate data from both modeled and disparate internal and external sources.
- Works with departmental staff to identify requirements for reporting and / or business intelligence tools.
- Identifies necessary data, data sources and methodologies.
- Collects, organizes, integrates, analyzes and interprets data.
- Leverages advanced statistical analysis methods to create insightful recommendations and conclusions that may be communicated to the stakeholder.
- Identifies and addresses expected and unforeseen data complexities to mitigate their impact on the analytic outcome and associated business decisions. Works to improve data quality where possible within created analytical models. Feeds data quality issues back to IT or identified data stewards to facilitate creation of high-quality metrics.
- Develops and may present reports, analyses and findings to senior management and others as scheduled or requested.
- Acts as liaison/analyst for internal stakeholders, understands their needs and translates them into reporting and analytic solutions.
- Effectively communicates with stakeholders and customers and ensures all requests are properly triaged, recorded and tracked.
- Adheres to corporate standards for performance metrics, data collection, data integrity, query design, and reporting format to ensure high quality, meaningful analytic output.
- Helps identify and understand data from internal and external sources for competitive, scenario and performance analyses, and financial modeling to gain member/provider insight into new and existing processes and business opportunities.
- Works closely with IT on the ongoing improvement of Mount Sinai’s integrated data warehouse, driven by strategic and business needs, and designed to ensure data and reporting consistency throughout the organization.
- Develops and maintains project work plans, including critical tasks, milestones, timelines, interdependencies and contingencies. Tracks and reports progress. Keeps stakeholders apprised of project status and implications for completion.
- Prepares clear, well-organized project-specific documentation, including, at a minimum, analytic methods used, key decision points and caveats, with sufficient detail to support comprehension and replication.
- Demonstrate proficiency with the principles and methodologies of process improvement. Applies these in the execution of responsibilities in support of a process focused approach.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- BA or BS degree minimum, in a relevant field of study; Master’s degree preferred.
- 2 years minimum is preferred in analytics development expertise, preferably in health care, or for a health provider, health plan or accountable care organization, including either:
- Working knowledge of healthcare EMR platforms such as Epic/Clarity, with demonstrated proficiency in SQL and Python to procure data and build efficient data pipelines.
- Experience working in healthcare provider analytics related to revenue modeling, managed care contracting, population management, case management, clinical or financial decision report.
Employer Description
Strength through Unity and Inclusion
The Mount Sinai Health System is committed to fostering an environment where everyone can contribute to excellence. We share a common dedication to delivering outstanding patient care. When you join us, you become part of Mount Sinai’s unparalleled legacy of achievement, education, and innovation as we work together to transform healthcare. We encourage all team members to actively participate in creating a culture that ensures fair access to opportunities, promotes inclusive practices, and supports the success of every individual. At Mount Sinai, our leaders are committed to fostering a workplace where all employees feel valued, respected, and empowered to grow. We strive to create an environment where collaboration, fairness, and continuous learning drive positive change, improving the well-being of our staff, patients, and organization. Our leaders are expected to challenge outdated practices, promote a culture of respect, and work toward meaningful improvements that enhance patient care and workplace experiences. We are dedicated to building a supportive and welcoming environment where everyone has the opportunity to thrive and advance professionally. Explore this opportunity and be part of the next chapter in our history.
About The Mount Sinai Health System
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 48,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes more than 9,000 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics, top 5 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, and top 20 in Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 11 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.
Equal Opportunity Employer
The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer, complying with all applicable federal civil rights laws. We do not discriminate, exclude, or treat individuals differently based on race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are deeply committed to fostering an environment where all faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve feel respected and supported. Our goal is to create a healthcare and learning institution that actively works to remove barriers, address challenges, and promote fairness in all aspects of our organization.
Compensation
The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides salary ranges that comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $72,473 - $106,049.07 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and operational need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.
How to Get Visa Sponsorship as a Data Science Analyst
Target employers with a strong H-1B filing history
Companies that have sponsored Data Science Analysts before are far more likely to do it again. Look for employers with consistent OFLC disclosure data showing approved LCAs for data science or analytics roles in recent fiscal years.
Lead with your quantitative degree, not just your tools
H-1B specialty occupation approval hinges on your degree field matching the role. A degree in statistics, applied mathematics, computer science, or economics is a stronger foundation than listing Python and SQL skills alone.
Frame your work in terms of business impact, not just methods
Sponsors and visa officers both want to see that your role is essential, not interchangeable. Quantify outcomes wherever possible: models deployed, revenue influenced, decisions improved. This strengthens both your application and your petition.
Ask about sponsorship policy early, but ask it the right way
Raise sponsorship during the offer stage, not the first interview. Ask whether the company has sponsored roles like yours before, rather than leading with visa uncertainty. Framing it as process familiarity signals confidence, not risk.
Consider employers in sectors with high approval rates
Technology, financial services, and consulting firms consistently show high H-1B approval rates for data science roles. These industries have established immigration infrastructure and legal teams familiar with specialty occupation petitions for analytical positions.
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Does a Data Science Analyst role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes, in most cases. USCIS generally treats data science and analytics roles as specialty occupations when the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in a specific quantitative field, such as statistics, computer science, mathematics, or data science. The job description matters. Roles that accept any degree, regardless of field, face higher denial risk, so a tightly written job posting that specifies the required field of study strengthens the petition considerably.
Do I need a master's degree to get sponsored as a Data Science Analyst?
No, but it helps. A bachelor's degree in a directly relevant quantitative field, such as statistics, computer science, or applied mathematics, is typically sufficient for H-1B eligibility. A master's degree gives you two advantages: it makes the specialty occupation argument more straightforward, and it qualifies you for the advanced degree cap pool, which has historically offered better H-1B lottery selection odds than the general cap.
What H-1B approval rates should I expect for data science roles?
H-1B approval rates for data science and analytics positions have generally been above 85% in recent fiscal years when filed by established sponsors with strong job descriptions. Denials are more common for roles at smaller employers with weak specialty occupation documentation or where the degree requirement isn't clearly specified. The lottery remains the bigger obstacle, not the approval itself.
Can I find Data Science Analyst jobs that are open to sponsoring H-1B or OPT candidates?
Yes. Migrate Mate filters sponsorship-open Data Science Analyst roles specifically, so you're not sifting through postings that won't consider visa candidates. Employers listed there have either sponsored before or have indicated openness to sponsorship, which cuts out a significant amount of wasted application effort for international candidates.
Can a foreign degree in data science or a related field support an H-1B petition?
Yes, foreign degrees are accepted for H-1B purposes, but they need to be evaluated for U.S. equivalency. A three-year bachelor's degree from certain countries may or may not be accepted as equivalent to a U.S. four-year degree, depending on the evaluator and the petition. Your employer's immigration attorney will typically arrange a credential evaluation through a recognized service. Degrees from Indian universities in computer science or statistics are among the most commonly evaluated and generally accepted.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Data Science Analyst jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.
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