El 1 Lead Assurance Data Analyst

Salary Range: $122,949 - $135,013 + Attractive Superannuation

The Provider Assurance and Support Section forms part of the Program Delivery Division. The Provider Assurance team is responsible for the design, implementation and ongoing management of assurance activities for DVA’s healthcare providers. The program of work incorporates risk and data analysis to prepare and implement forward work plan, developing and refining the supporting assurance framework, and analysing data assets for the purpose of assurance activities.

The Lead Assurance Data Analyst will lead the team responsible for data extraction and analysis to support the assurance activities undertaken for DVA’s healthcare providers. The role provides support and expertise to the assurance team.

**Duties**
- Lead the work undertaking complex data analysis projects to support business analysis and improvement activities within the Provider Assurance team. This requires understanding and integration of broader DVA business context.
- Identify and transform data from multiple sources using novel techniques or emerging patterns into new datasets for use in analysis, risk or behaviour modelling
- Use a wide range of advanced data modelling methods to organise complex data objects (for example, predictive modelling, advanced clustering, text mining, social network analysis and association rules.) Perform advanced data analysis techniques to interpret data, reduce bias, find patterns or trends, validate unexpected results and solve problems for complex or sensitive datasets.
- Design, build, test and maintain data solutions, systems and databases to solve problems related to the work of the Assurance team.
- Generate high value actionable insights from highly complex data and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including the Assurance Officers and Senior Executive using highly complex reports, dashboards and other visualisation techniques.
- Develop, fit, diagnose, and troubleshoot business rules or statistical models to identify organisational risk and/or complex client behaviour using unfamiliar methodologies or new patterns.
- Influence improvements to technical documentation and use appropriate templates/version control to ensure repeatable, reproducible results by developing data definitions, dictionaries, metadata and data quality metrics.
- Collaborate with other data professionals, business stakeholders, and IT specialists to drive system and process changes to realise strategic goals or deliver significant operational outcomes
- Coach and train other analysts within the Assurance team.
- Drive positive change and contribute to business improvement strategies and change initiatives.

**Eligibility**
- Under section 22(8) of the Public Service Act 1999, employees must be Australian citizens to be employed in the Australian Public Service (APS).
- All applicants external to DVA offered employment will be required to successfully undergo a pre-engagement screening check, even if they have a security clearance. The screening check is conducted in accordance with the Australian Government Protective Security Policy Framework requirements.

**Notes**

Where a non-ongoing position is offered, the role will be filled for an initial specified term of up to18 months.

A merit pool of suitable applicants may be created which may be used to fill future ongoing and non-ongoing vacancies should they become available over the next 18 months.

DVA is committed to improving the data skills and capability of our workforce to underpin our goal of becoming a leading data-driven organisation.