<p>Description</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>Do you want to join an organization that invests in you as a Consultant Analytical Engineer Expanse? At HCA Healthcare, you come first. HCA Healthcare has committed up to 300 million in programs to support our incredible team members over the course of three years.</p> <p>Benefits</p> <p>HCA Healthcare offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.</p> </li><li> <p>Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.</p> </li><li> <p>Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing</p> </li><li> <p>401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)</p> </li><li> <p>Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock</p> </li><li> <p>Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.</p> </li><li> <p>Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more</p> </li><li> <p>Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts</p> </li><li> <p>Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships</p> </li><li> <p>Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)</p> </li><li> <p>Colleague recognition program</p> </li><li> <p>Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)</p> </li><li> <p>Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.</p> </li></ul> <p>Learn more about Employee Benefits</p> <p>Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.</p> <p>You contribute to our success. Every role has an impact on our patients' lives and you have the opportunity to make a difference. We are looking for a dedicated Consultant Analytical Engineer Expanse like you to be a part of our team.</p> <p>Job Summary and Qualifications</p> <p>The Consultant Analytical Engineer serves as a key analytics and process-engineering leader within the Expanse organization, combining expertise in data engineering, statistical analysis, and AI-driven insights to advance operational, clinical, and financial performance across HCA Healthcare. Positioned at the intersection of advanced analytics and healthcare process improvement, this role transforms complex data into clear, actionable intelligence that supports decision-making and accelerates value for patients, clinicians, and operational leaders.</p> <p>This role is responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing analytical products including data pipelines, statistical models, dashboards, and AI-enabled workflows that strengthen process reliability, efficiency, and patient safety in and around the Expanse EHR. The Consultant Analytical Engineer partners closely with process engineers, clinical informatics, product teams, and enterprise stakeholders to uncover improvement opportunities, quantify impact, and guide the adoption of optimized workflows across clinical domains such as nursing, physician/APP, pharmacy, and lab operations.</p> <p>This role will work closely with cross-functional team members (as well as external stakeholders), including multiple constituents across the enterprise, to execute project requirements that will establish solutions directionality and support leadership to effectively and efficiently assess, develop and integrated new workflows, derived from the translation of workflow observations, quantitative inputs from various clinical systems and qualitative inputs.</p> <p>Using Lean methods, process-mining techniques, and advanced analytical methods, this role supports the full lifecycle of process design from current-state assessment through modeling, measurement, and sustained performance monitoring. The Consultant Analytical Engineer plays a critical role in identifying and evaluating AI and automation opportunities, integrating predictive insights and intelligent tooling into operational processes, and ensuring measurable value is tracked through KPIs, OKRs, and other performance frameworks.</p> <p>The ideal candidate thrives in both technical and consultative environments, translating complex statistical findings into clear, consumable insights for stakeholders at all levels. They foster data literacy across the team, contribute to enterprise-wide design and improvement initiatives, and serve as a trusted advisor in shaping data-driven strategy for the Expanse organization.</p> <p>Major Responsibilities:</p> <ul> <li>Support the development of new processes in and around the Expanse EHR that support agility, resilience, efficiency, and patient safety. </li><li>Assess existing processes and workflows at sites using Expanse to identify priorities and opportunities for improvement by making informed deductive decisions from available datasets. </li><li>Employ process improvement methodologies as standards for assessing workflow in and around the Expanse EHR </li><li>Track initiatives against key measurable success metrics to identify opportunities for improvement </li><li>Research, develop and apply possible AI opportunities and their utilization within the healthcare framework. </li><li>Proactively identify and mitigate risks to the Expanse organizational strategy, project plans, and key milestones </li><li>Work collaboratively with other members of the Expanse organization to design and assess processes according to the principles of Lean, Six Sigma, or other process engineering modalities. </li><li>Guides cross-functional teams to conduct process improvement and design process studies/audits, as well as studies in business process re-engineering and system redesign. </li><li>Collaborates with Clinical Informatics, Business Operations, and cross-functional design partners (as well as external partners) to design, lead, assign and execute quantitative and qualitative data analysis including: Leveraging available and novel data sources in an effective and efficient manner, leveraging database and data analytics tools such as SQL and Power BI to support design and evaluation of business cases, and tracking current and future state metrics and OKRs (Objective and Key Results) as a means to ascertain solution viability. </li><li>Works with a cross-functional team to improve understanding of data and design solutions that systematically reduce errors, reduce costs, and increase revenues that create clinical and business capacity. </li><li>Perform detailed analysis and evaluations on current/future state and documents conclusions and recommendations. </li><li>Adhere to the standard operating procedures of the Expanse organization, including all supportive technologies used to organize and progress work efforts </li><li>Serve as a trusted analytics leader, providing consultative guidance on data design, analytic approaches, and statistical rigor. </li><li>Engages with Expanse product, Division, and facility teams to assess, design, and implement improved workflows with the Expanse platform. </li><li>Develop and maintain analytics for the areas of clinical outcomes, operations, finance, healthcare coding, people measures, and other healthcare domains. </li><li>Proactively identifies and mitigates opportunities/barriers to successful completion of assigned work, escalating accordingly to the Director of Process Engineering. </li><li>Supports (and learns strategies and tactics to lead) the analysis of multiple inputs to produce standard work products and artifacts/outputs that render a concise and synthesized clinically-lead analysis of perceived, current, and ideal state. </li><li>Mentor analysts, data engineers, and process engineers to elevate analytic and data literacy across the team. </li><li>This role will frequently engage with executives, including Strategy, Clinical Operations, Clinical Informatics Product Lifecycle Logistics, Business Operations, Data/Technical leaders, and other business partners. </li><li>Develop an in-depth familiarity with multiple enterprise datasets used to support customer deliverables such as dashboards </li><li>Supports (and learns strategies and tactics to lead) process mining projects that support automation efforts based on identified complexity of existing business processes. </li><li>Educates, informs and advocates for the capabilities and benefits of process improvement and continuous performance management strategies and tactics as a means to enhance and accelerate DT&I-related work. </li><li>Ability to build, develop and present operational update (detailed and high level) reports to leadership on progress. </li><li>Participates in scoping of projects with key stakeholders. </li></ul> <p>Education & Experience</p> <ul> <li>Bachelor's Degree (Data / Engineering / Quantitative field Preferred) required </li><li>Master's Degree e.g. MPH, MHA, MBA, MS, MA (Statistics or Biostatistics) preferred </li><li>1+ year of AI related work, building prototypes, prompt development, etc. required </li><li>7+ years relevant experience in data engineering, analytics or biostatistics, including 3+ years of analysis type work/projects preferred </li><li>2+ years of building and maintaining analytics in a modern BI tool such as Tableau, Power BI, or Qlik required </li><li>3+ years of data analysis utilizing SQL with a modern enterprise database (e.g., Teradata, SQL Server, RedShift, Hadoop, Big Query, etc…) required. Experience with multiple platforms preferred required </li><li>Domain analytics expertise required in 1 or more areas such as healthcare analytics, operations analytics, clinical analytics, clinical informatics, financial analytics, HR analytics, supply chain analytics, or other business area; preference for multiple domains preferred </li><li>1+ years of data analysis using a modern general scripting language such as Python or R required </li><li>Lean Six Sigma (LSS) Certification required within 18 months of hire </li><li>Project Management Professional (PMP) preferred </li><li>American Society for Quality (ASQ) Certification preferred </li><li>Up to 50% travel required </li><li>Position located in Nashville, TN </li></ul> <p>"Good people beget good people."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.</p> <p>HCA Healthcare Co-Founder</p> <p>We are a family 270,000 dedicated professionals! Our Talent Acquisition team is reviewing applications for our Consultant Analytical Engineer Expanse opening. Qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Submit your resume today to join our community of caring!</p> <p>We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.</p>