Principal Health Data Scientist

Role Description

The Principal Health Data Scientist will lead and serve as subject matter expert in data science, programming, and analytical modeling in support of health economics and real-world evidence (HEOR/RWE) research within Inovalon’s Insights team. This position executes research studies from start to finish, reviewing protocols for methodological appropriateness, building and validating cohorts, performing analysis, and generating insights from administrative claims and EHR data. This is an independent contributor role requiring deep domain expertise and the ability to manage projects with minimal supervision in a fast-paced research environment.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Serve as lead for programming, analytics, and statistics when working collaboratively with teams of health services researchers and business analysts.
• Identify and develop solutions for key strategic business problems using high-level modeling and statistical analyses techniques.
• Utilize SQL for advanced-level data extraction, transformation, and management; document and manage library of source code and algorithms.
• Identify, develop, and test hypotheses in support of research and product offerings; communicate findings clearly and actionable to clients.
• Respond to and lead complex operational data requests and create ad-hoc queries to support research projects.
• Provide quality control, quality assurance, and review for projects where not the lead, including mentoring for cross-functional training.
• Work closely with Inovalon’s Enterprise Data Management, Data Integration, MORE2 Registry®, and iPORT+™ teams to resolve data issues.
• Troubleshoot complex production-related issues and coordinate successful resolution.
• Assist with the evaluation of data analytic vendors and tools.
• Maintain compliance with Inovalon’s policies, procedures, and mission statement.
• Adhere to all confidentiality and HIPAA requirements as outlined within Inovalon’s Operating Policies and Procedures.
• Fulfill responsibilities that may be reasonably provided by Inovalon for operational and financial success.
• Uphold responsibilities relative to the separation of duties for applicable processes and procedures.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional experience in healthcare or pharmaceutical industries working with administrative claims data and big data.
• Excellent SQL programming skills, including experience with Snowflake cloud data platform; knowledge of statistical analysis tools such as SAS, R, and/or MatLab.
• Demonstrated high-level problem solving, analytical reasoning, and decision-making skills.
• Strong understanding and experience in researching and resolving data issues.
• Business analytical skills (process flows, procedures, spreadsheets, modeling, etc.) and understanding of design and architecture principles.
• Excellent project management skills, with the ability to work independently on multiple projects.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to understand and interpret results based on advanced statistical techniques.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in IT and business environments.
• Ability to work under minimal supervision in a fast-paced multidisciplinary environment.
• Advanced knowledge of healthcare, health policy, pharmaceutical, medical device, and related issues.
• Superior customer service in the form of first-rate work product and project management.
• Strong ability to manage challenging client situations and troubleshoot complex information.

Education

• Master’s degree in statistics, applied mathematics, computer science, machine learning, econometrics, engineering, or related discipline; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

• Sedentary work (i.e. sitting for long periods of time).
• Frequently or constantly lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects and repetitive motions.
• Subject to inside environmental conditions.
• Travel for this position will include less than 5% locally usually for training purposes.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Performance-based incentives may be available.
• Health insurance, life insurance, company-paid disability, 401k, 18+ days of paid time off, and more.