Research Scientist 2

Job Description:

• Do exploratory analysis on populations, trends, and clinical conditions to inform potential opportunities for trend savings and clinical outcomes improvement for our members.
• Collaborate with clinicians and clinical informaticists to define various clinical concepts and extract clinical information from medical, pharmacy, and lab claims for analytics and modeling purposes
• Leverage a wide range of analytics methods from descriptive analysis to epidemiological methods
• Design outcomes studies and perform program evaluation using randomized controlled trials, propensity matching, difference-in-difference models, or other experimental/quasi-experimental methods.
• Conduct literature reviews and intervention research to assess engagement rates and treatment effect sizes of interventions that are in the early stages of design and implementation.
• Write code in SQL, SAS, and Python to assemble data, create analytic variables/features, design visuals and charts, and statistical models for research/science use-cases.
• Translate analytic results into key takeaways with actionable insights and communicate to business partners
• Understand department, segment, and organizational strategy and operating objectives, including their linkages to related areas
• Make decisions regarding research methods, occasionally in ambiguous situations with general guidance

Requirements:

• Master's Degree in a quantitative discipline such as Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Economics, Statistics, Clinical Informatics, Engineering, and/or related fields
• 2+ years of experience that includes:
• Skills to create datasets and analytical variables from large and complex data environments by writing code in SQL, SAS, and Python.
• Applying research methods to transform high volumes of complex data into actionable insights.
• Experience with experimental and quasi-experimental methods such as randomized controlled trials, propensity matching, or difference-in-difference models.
• Strong interest in healthcare and desire to make a positive impact on health outcomes.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team, to deliver quality analytical work, and communicate results and insights clearly to business partners.

Benefits:

• medical
• dental and vision benefits
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave)
• short-term and long-term disability
• life insurance and many other opportunities