Data Scientist/SAS Programmer

Key Skills

Apache Hadoop, C Programming, C++, Data science techniques, Java Programming, Machine learning techniques, MapReduce, Python Programming, PyTorch, R Programming, Scala Programming, SQL, TensorFlow

Job Description

Advancing healthcare through data science is our mission. Delivering high impact, intuitive technology and analytics is our passion.
We are driven by outcomes. Our tailored healthcare intelligence solutions are central to identifying actionable insights that advance care and improve patient outcomes, drive physician engagement and productivity, and enable success with value-based payment models and CMS quality reporting. We deliver clinically-rich solutions that lead to results that have a real impact on real people.

Job Description

As a Data Scientist, you will work with our client services and product delivery teams to build data solutions to feed our healthcare performance-measurement and analytic web applications. These applications help our clients optimize the quality and cost-efficiency of hospital and specialty care.

We are looking for technical, organized, and strong communicators to facilitate product delivery for our clients. This includes all aspects of analytic projects including: designing analytic plans, dataset preparation, data quality validation, analytic programming, and the interpretation and communication of findings. We are looking for a data scientist with SQL and SAS programming abilities, problem-solving, and excellent communication skills.

Our clients include hospitals and health systems, collaborative quality initiatives, and professional societies across various surgical specialties, health plans, and accountable care organizations.

• Manage and analyze large data sets including clinical registries, administrative data, billing claims, insurance and other data sets and statistical analysis
• Develop clear and well-structured analytic plans
• Create efficient and reusable code to manipulate and analyze data
• Build statistical models and diagnose, validate and improve the performance of the models
• Communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders on analytic data processing
• Contribute to developing MIPS reporting data

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (Information, Operations Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, IT, or Computer Science majors preferred)
• At least 2-3 years of analytic programming experience, preferably in healthcare
• Ability to assess technical challenges and program solutions, and solve complex problems
• Proven history working in a collaborative team environment and be flexible in taking on multiple projects
• Strong experience coding in data manipulation and analysis using SAS and SQL
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Record of academic and/or business achievement