Use your Data Science skills in the fight against chronic diseases. Our client operates a pioneering disease management platform, focusing on delivering value-based care tailored to individuals with chronic conditions. By seamlessly integrating human expertise with cutting-edge software and analytics, the platform actively engages patients soon after diagnosis, ensuring they receive the most appropriate care swiftly. It offers continuous support by employing targeted, evidence-based interventions, significantly enhancing patient outcomes and making a meaningful difference in their health journey. As a Data Scientist, you will become an integral part of our Data team, tasked with enhancing our analytical capabilities to support our overarching mission. Your role will involve modeling data and crafting visualizations to communicate with stakeholders, delivering insights that prompt actionable measures. A background in working with healthcare data, including claims, prior authorizations, and electronic health records, is crucial for success in this role. You will work closely with teams across Product, Engineering, Clinical, and Operations to pinpoint opportunities for improving outcomes and monitoring the effectiveness of our interventions for our members and clients. Your contributions will be pivotal in establishing strong relationships with providers by developing data products that support practice transformation efforts. Within three months, you will: - Acquire a comprehensive understanding of our data platform, contributing to the enhancement of our data models and pipelines. - Forge relationships with oncology practices and providers, showcasing our expertise in developing data and analytics products. - Collaborate with stakeholders to grasp their business needs and translate these into technical specifications, involving the creation of data models, pipelines, and analytics dashboards using tools such as Looker or RStudio. This may include utilizing dbt to construct models for analyzing medical claims data to identify value care utilization across oncology practices or examining the dispersion of medical care among our members and its impact on out-of-pocket expenses. After six months, you will: - Assume responsibility for and lead the development of data models to assess the impact of our interventions with oncology practices, reporting outcomes both internally and externally. - Play a crucial role in enhancing our data infrastructure and devising a roadmap for a scalable and modular data architecture to accommodate our team's expansion. - Lead in the development of utilization and quality metrics, becoming the primary contact for stakeholder inquiries. You will also utilize our data assets for identifying business opportunities and strategic initiatives. Keys to success include: - Prioritizing our members. The mission of our organization, especially the experience of our members, is of utmost importance to you. - Being action-oriented. You have a knack for identifying and prioritizing the needs of your initiatives, ensuring that urgent and important tasks are addressed promptly. - Valuing diverse perspectives. You are humble, constantly seeking feedback, and are keen on learning and sharing knowledge. - Relevant experience. You have experience handling large healthcare datasets, preferably within a health plan or a healthcare-focused technology startup with advanced data structures and pipelines. Expertise in medical claims, pharmacy claims, eligibility files, and other pertinent healthcare data is vital for creating data marts for reporting and analysis. - Technical proficiency. Your skills in analytics, data modeling, and data transformation are essential. While familiarity with DBT is preferred, we welcome candidates who are eager to learn it swiftly. Experience with Python or R and tools like Looker for data analysis and visualization is advantageous. - Effective communication. You are adept at expressing your ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical team members and stakeholders. - Comfort with ambiguity. You have a proven track record of navigating through challenges and finding solutions in uncertain situations, particularly in fast-paced environments and ambitious startups.