Senior Data Scientist

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Summary:

In this role, you will engage in sophisticated data analytics, data modeling, and data technology product development to further the strategic goals of Vizient’s Data Operations Technology team. You will utilize programming tools and your experiences with health care data to explore health care informatics challenges and to explore opportunities to create novel and reliable analyses/models/applications. You will steadily grow your domain knowledge and expertise with health care interoperability standards, application programming interfaces (APIs), business intelligence (BI) applications, electronic health record (EHR) systems, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. You will engage directly with internal and client stakeholders to understand analysis needs, gather development requirements, provide demonstrations, and present results.

Responsibilities:

• Use programming tools to translate business requirements into analytics, models, and applications.
• Generate hypotheses and analyze data to test and interpret results.
• Design and develop data models using machine learning and artificial intelligence tools.
• Identify improvement opportunities in data reporting, analytics, and processing tools, and collaborate with Vizient Technology staff to implement enhancements.
• Collaborate with leaders and clinicians to build analytics and informatics acumen across the organization.
• Communicate findings from exploratory and predictive data analysis to administrative and clinical leaders for specific projects.
• Leverage machine learning, natural language processing, or other statistical approaches to create, trouble shoot, and implement single platform solutions.
• Demonstrate functionally diverse utilization of relevant core programming tools with R, Python, and SQL.
• Apply task-specific mindset to address data science insights, breaking down aspects of solutions to define scope and make decisions supporting data science projects
• Create clear, concise, and organized communication materials including policies and procedures, guidelines, presentations, and messages.
• Use advanced analytical models and tools to analyze and understand big data sets.
• Identify and logically structure key issues and findings.

Qualifications:

• Advanced degree preferred in applied math, statistics, computer science, econometrics, or related field. 
• 5 or more years of experience managing large disparate data sets and using quantitative and qualitative analysis to draw meaningful and valid insights required.
• 3 or more years of programming experience using Python and R required.
• Expertise managing and analyzing large payer-sourced and provider-sourced claims data required.
• Knowledge of encounter and care delivery logics, geospatial logic and proxies, and payment methodologies required.
• Experience effectively communicating and presenting data to a variety of audiences required.
• Experience in developing, implementing, and validating synthetic datasets for analysis.
• Familiar with cloud computing environments, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform highly preferred.
• Familiar with health interoperability data standards such as HL7 and FHIR highly preferred.
• Experience working with health care administrative claims data or electronic medical record data tools highly preferred.
• Experience with MS SQL and with APIs preferred.

Estimated Hiring Range:

This position is also incentive eligible.

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