Analyst, Risk Stratification

Posting Date

12/11/2025

2000 16th St, Denver, Colorado, 80202, United States of America

Our team plays a critical role in ensuring the right patients are identified and supported at the right time by our care teams. We develop, evaluate, and enhance the analytics that power patient risk identification, event detection, and care prioritization across the Integrated Kidney Care (IKC) organization.
Our work directly informs clinical workflows, resource allocation, and patient outcomes.

As an Analyst/Senior Analyst on this team, you will help enhance the performance, accuracy, and efficiency of risk stratification processes. You will bring forward new ideas, evaluate existing data assets, optimize analytic workflows, and help stakeholders understand results and implications for patient care.

This role collaborates closely with analytics partners, operational leaders, clinicians, and product/technology teams in a highly cross-functional, fast-moving environment.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Risk Stratification & Analytics

• Develop, maintain, and optimize patient risk stratification logic and identification models.
• Evaluate existing risk models and processes to identify areas for improvement, increased accuracy, or operational efficiency.
• Explore new data sources and technologies to enhance patient identification and event detection capabilities.
• Analyze clinical, demographic, and utilization data to understand patterns that drive risk and future events.
• Monitor and report on the health and performance of risk stratification systems, including precision, recall, stability, and operational outcomes.

Data Management & Technical Execution

• Write SQL queries against clinical, claims, and operational data warehouses to support risk modeling, reporting, and ad-hoc analytics.
• Build and maintain dashboards, scorecards, and summary reports to track key performance indicators related to risk identification.
• Collaborate with data engineering and product teams to ensure data availability, quality, and efficient use of analytic resources.

Insights, Interpretation & Communication

• Translate analytical findings into clear, actionable insights for clinical, operational, and leadership stakeholders.
• Create polished communication materials (PowerPoint, dashboards, memos) that summarize findings and recommended actions.
• Partner with stakeholders to refine requirements, define success metrics, and ensure consistent interpretation of risk metrics and patient identification workflows.

Innovation & Process Improvement

• Proactively bring forward ideas to optimize data pipelines, model inputs, model logic, and prioritization frameworks.
• Identify opportunities to automate or streamline risk identification workflows.
• Stay informed about new analytic methods, tools, and health data sources relevant to risk stratification and patient targeting.

Key Competencies & Attributes

• Strong analytical curiosity and a desire to improve processes and outcomes.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Collaborative approach with strong relationship-building skills.
• Comfort working in a dynamic environment with evolving needs and priorities.
• Self-starter mindset with strong follow-through.

Qualifications

Analyst Level:

• Bachelor’s degree in statistics, analytics, public health, operations research, or related field.
• 1–3 years of experience in analytics (healthcare preferred).

Senior Analyst Level:

• Bachelor’s degree plus 3–5+ years of relevant analytics experience, or Master’s degree plus 2+ years of experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading analytic projects and presenting to leadership.

Technical Skills (Both Levels):

• Proficiency with SQL and relational databases.
• Strong understanding of statistical topics (probability, regression models, result interpretation, biases, etc.)
• Familiarity with Python, R, or other scripting languages.
• Strong Excel skills for data manipulation and analysis.
• Experience with visualization tools such as Tableau or Power BI (preferred).
• Experience working with clinical or medical claims data is a plus.

What You Can Expect

• A mission-driven culture focused on improving patient health and outcomes.
• Opportunities for growth through training, mentorship, and cross-functional project exposure.
• A collaborative, supportive environment that values innovation and continuous improvement.
• Experience with Tableau and/or Alteryx desired but not necessary

Here is what you can expect when you join our Village:

• A "community first, company second" culture based on Core Values that really matter

• Clinical outcomes consistently ranked above the national average

• Award-winning education and training across multiple career paths to help you reach your potential

• Performance-based rewards based on stellar individual and team contributions

• A comprehensive benefits package designed to enhance your health, your financial well-being, and your future

• Dedication, above all, to caring for patients suffering from kidney failure and other chronic disease across the nation

What We’ll Provide:

More than just pay, our DaVita Rewards package connects teammates to what matters most. Teammates are eligible to begin receiving benefits on the first day of the month following or coinciding with one month of continuous employment. Below are some of our benefit offerings.

• Comprehensive benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off, PTO cash out

• Support for you and your family: Family resources, EAP counseling sessions, access Headspace®, backup child and elder care, maternity/paternity leave and more

• Professional development programs: DaVita offers a variety of programs to help strong performers grow within their career and also offers on-demand virtual leadership and development courses through DaVita’s online training platform StarLearning.

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At DaVita, we strive to be a community first and a company second.  We want all teammates to experience DaVita as "a place where I belong."  Our goal is to embed belonging into everything we do in our Village, so that it becomes part of who we are. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and comply with state and federal affirmative action requirements. Individuals are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

This position will be open for a minimum of three days.

The Salary Range for the role is $56,500.00 - $75,000.00 per year.

 

 

 

Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience. DaVita offers a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Learn more at https://careers.davita.com/benefits  

  

Colorado Residents: Please do not respond to any questions in this initial application that may seek age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You may also redact this information from any materials you submit during the application process.  You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.