Market Access Business Analyst & Data Architect (Part-Time Contractor)

Role Summary

Market Access Business Analyst & Data Architect (Part-Time Contractor) at Ardelyx. Part-time 20–25 hours/week for a 3-month assignment focusing on pharmaceutical Market Access and Specialty Pharmacy data to design data frameworks, address data gaps, and develop analytics-ready datasets to support business insights.

Responsibilities

• Develop a comprehensive patient journey framework leveraging Specialty Pharmacy (SP) data to enable visibility into patient access and adherence.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to translate business questions into actionable data and analytics requirements.
• Investigate and identify data gaps within SP datasets that may impact downstream analytics or reporting.
• Design and document business rules and logic to systematically address data gaps.
• Proactively design and implement data quality control (QC) rules to ensure SP data accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
• Design and develop Proof of Concept (POC) ARDs with the appropriate level of detail (LOD) aligned with analytical needs.
• Pressure test ARDs, data models, and stored procedures for efficiency, scalability, and quality.
• Partner with data engineering and analytics teams to optimize data structures and ensure alignment with business use cases.

Qualifications

• 8‚Äì10 years of experience working with pharmaceutical data related to contracting, claims, and market access.
• Minimum 3 years of deep, hands-on experience with Specialty Pharmacy (SP) data, IQVIA LAAD, Payer Spine and MMIT.
• Proven experience in patient tokenization processes and the development of corresponding business logic.
• Extensive experience in Analytics Ready Data (ARD) design and development, including data modeling and transformation.
• Strong understanding of data architecture principles, business rule design, and quality control automation.
• Bachelor‚Äôs degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills with the ability to work independently in a part-time capacity.

Skills

• Data architecture
• Data modeling and transformation
• Analytical reasoning
• SP data and IQVIA LAAD, Payer Spine, MMIT familiarity
• Business rules design and data quality automation
• Stakeholder collaboration

Education

• Bachelor‚Äôs degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or related field

Additional Requirements

• Type: Part-time (20‚Äì25 hours/week)
• Duration: 10 weeks
• Location: Remote or hybrid (as applicable)
• Reports To: Sr Director, Patient Services and Market Access Analytics
• Compensation: Hourly pay range $100‚Äì$125/hr; actual base pay determined by experience and qualifications