Data Entry Specialist - Night Shift

October 1, 2026

Data Entry Specialist

Smart Data Solutions, a leading provider of data management, claim routing and workflow solutions to health plans and TPAs, is looking for remote Data Entry Specialists to join our team!

What you’ll be doing?

Principal Responsibilities:

Consistently achieve both quality and production standards.
Ability to work independently and quietly with minimal supervision.
Complete understanding of business rules.
Review and perform data verification routines in accordance with company procedures.
Ensure that all Personal Health Information (PHI) is kept confidential
Make recommendations for improvement or enhancement to job processes to ensure standards in data entry, collection and retrieval.
Perform other duties as assigned.

Hourly Pay and Available Schedule

$12 per hour
Full-time openings available.
Preferred shifts 4:00pm CST - 12:00am CST, Monday-Friday.

What we’re looking for?

Required skills:

Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
Manages time effectively and is dependable
Communicate effectively
Computer literacy
Dependable
40+ WPM typing speed, 4500 KPH ten key.
Ability to quickly learn a new system and memorize hot key/short cuts.

Location: This position is fully remote based in WI, TX or MN.

Why this is the company for you?

Top Benefits & Perks:

A company culture that is authentic, innovative, and collaborative! Our most powerful strength is our people! We build impactful solutions for our customers - their success is our success!
A professional development and growth-oriented workplace
Generous benefits including, health insurance, short-term, and long-term disability
401(k) with a company match to provide a better future in your retirement years
A flexible environment with a competitive paid time off package; including vacation, holiday, give-back day, and a floating day

Who is Smart Data Solutions?

Smart Data Solutions is a technology vendor that brings 22 years of healthcare experience using intelligence and automation to extract data from front office mailroom operations. Today, the company is expanding out from its front office focus and targeting its open-source automation and AI engines toward the entire healthcare operations value chain. One of the key benefits of working with Smart Data Solutions is their specialized approach to data capture and automation. Smart Data Solutions takes a comprehensive approach to image and document processing, using multiple engines and hundreds of thousands of lines of code to ensure accuracy and make sense of data. Smart Data Solutions has also invested heavily in EDI interoperability, with clearinghouse capabilities that enable them to pivot towards providing value-added services. Using the data they have collected, they are able to offer population health insights to clients, helping them make informed decisions about their largest areas of spending and identifying potential opportunities for cost savings.

Smart Data Solutions’ global headquarters are just outside of St. Paul, MN with 400+ employees and leverages dedicated onshore and offshore resources as part of its service delivery model. The company counts over 500 healthcare organizations as clients, including multiple Blue Cross Blue Shield state plans, regional health plans and TPAs, handling over 2 billion transactions of varying types annually with a 98%+ customer retention rate. SDS plans to continue investments into meaningfully in automation and machine learning capabilities across its tech-enabled processes to drive scalability and greater internal operating efficiency while also improving client results.

SDS has partnered with a leading growth-oriented investment firm, Parthenon Capital Partners, and the Blue Venture Fund, a unique collaboration among Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) companies, to further accelerate expansion and product innovation.

Smart Data Solutions is an equal opportunity employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or other legally protected status

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