Team Lead (Analytics)

About the Company

Index Analytics, LLC, is a rapidly growing, Baltimore-based small business providing health-related consulting services to the federal government. The company prioritizes a dynamic and employee-friendly workplace, fostering a supportive and collegial team environment with opportunities for career development and education.

About the Role

The Team Lead (Analytics) will collaborate with customers and staff to define product requirements, build expertise in analytics products, and communicate effectively with both business and technical audiences to deliver impactful solutions. This role applies Lean-Agile principles to drive analytics product development, address client needs, and deliver value through scalable, customer-centered systems. The lead will use policy research, data analysis, visualization, and statistical methods to advise clients on project and product design, conduct studies, interpret data, and prepare reports.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex analytics initiatives by planning and executing advanced, analytics-focused technical projects; developing sound experimental and scientific study designs; and overseeing high-quality data analysis and reporting outputs.
• Own and manage analytics product lifecycles by maintaining and prioritizing product backlogs across multiple analytics products, defining product vision, roadmaps, MVPs, and requirements, and incorporating stakeholder and customer feedback to drive value-based outcomes.
• Translate product vision into delivered solutions by clearly communicating requirements to developers, testers, and stakeholders; guiding implementation; and demonstrating product functionality to ensure alignment with business and scientific objectives.
• Produce and communicate high-quality analytical deliverables by preparing, reviewing, and approving complex reports, presentation materials, and draft manuscripts, and translating complex analytical findings for client, management, and scientific audiences through written and oral communications.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor and collaborator by interfacing with client’s subject matter experts, data analysts, and internal teams to ensure smooth project execution, while providing expert guidance to management on technical and analytical considerations.
• Develop team capability and technical rigor by training and mentoring junior staff in advanced data interpretation, ensuring research methods and technical procedures are current and valid, and serving as a technical resource across the organization.
• Manage direct reports and perform supervisory duties, including review and approval of time and work performed, monitoring work performance, escalating issues to senior management, helping establish individual goals, and encouraging career growth.

Requirements

• U.S. citizen or otherwise authorized to work in the United States and able to demonstrate physical residency in the U.S. for at least three (3) of the past five (5) years.
• Bachelor’s degree with eight (8) or more years of experience, including four (4) or more years supporting federal and state health agencies conducting health services research using Medicaid claims and CHIP data.
• Experience conducting complex data analysis and using visualization techniques to support data-driven decision-making for effective program administration, policy-making, and program oversight.
• Demonstrated experience leading teams of technical and non-technical resources within an Agile project framework to deliver analytics products that support scientific decision-making.
• Willingness and ability to assume cross-functional responsibilities as needed to ensure continuity of business operations.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to convey complex information clearly and effectively.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience with federal clients such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, offering proactive solutions to enable changes to policy and health outcomes.