Senior Healthcare Data Scientist

About this role

About the Role

As an individual contributor on the Data Science & Analytics team, you will use your experience with healthcare claims data, your programming experience in SAS, SQL, and your analytic skills to help develop new products, provide analytics and clinical outcomes reporting, and data-driven insights to our customers.

In this role, you will join an experienced team of data science professionals and actuaries to build up platforms and financial models, measure the value, and improve the effectiveness for various clients.

A Day in the Life

• Work independently to analyze and interpret healthcare utilization and financial data to address business questions regarding population health management, health and economic outcomes, quality of healthcare, and product design.
• Work with clients to identify historical and future cohort populations, calculate utilization and costs, and estimate financial results under different models.
• Work with clients to provide insights about new opportunity assessment.
• Use SAS, SQL, and Tableau to design platforms to report on various healthcare deliverables.
• Track issues with reports, including defects in logic, data quality problems, and process errors.
• Build up predictive models to segment patients.
• Support analytical research projects using your statistics and modeling skills.

What You Need

• A Bachelor’s degree is required. A Master’s degree in statistics, social science, public health, mathematics, economics, or epidemiology is preferred.
• A minimum of 3 years of healthcare industry experience is required.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience programming in SAS, SQL is required.
• Experience using statistical methods to evaluate healthcare claims data and experience with reporting tools such as Tableau strongly preferred.
• Strong organizational, analytical, multi-tasking, documentation, presentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Familiarity with healthcare databases and coding systems (e.g., ICD...