Principal Health Data Scientist

Overview

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 to draw insight and intelligence from large administrative claims datasets, electronic medical records and various healthcare registry datasets.
• Identify and develop solutions that can be implemented to key strategic business problems using high-level modeling and statistical analyses techniques.
• Utilize SQL to perform advanced-level data extraction, transformation and data management; fully document and manage library of source code and algorithms for future use.
• Identify, develop and test hypotheses in support of research and product offerings, and communicate findings in a clear, precise, and actionable manner to our clients.
• Respond to and lead highly 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 solution orientated approaches and mentoring for cross functional training across the functional project teams.
• Serve as lead when working closely with Inovalon’s Enterprise Data Management, Data Integration, MORE2 Registry®, and iPORT+™ teams to identify, understand, and resolve data issues and improve the efficiency, productivity and scalability of Avalere and Inovalon Product and production data processes.
• 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 in all ways and at all times with respect to any aspect of the data handled or services rendered in the undertaking of the position.