Senior Data Scientist

Job ID: 639211
Job date: 2017-12-01
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Company : UPMC 

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Role : Other 


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Job Description:
The Senior Data Scientist develops, implements, and monitors advanced analytic, medical informatics, and predictive modeling tools for health care programs.

Responsibilities:

  • Collaborates with health plan and health system staff
  • Converse with and provides guidance on the selection and use of modeling software and programs.
  • Coordinates informatics activities to facilitate reporting and take advantage of health system information and technology.
  • Defines methodologies for reporting and evaluates software requirements needed to support analytic reporting.
  • Design, develop, and implement health care analytic and biomedical modeling programs.
  • Identifies and implements education and training program to address needs of health plan employees relative to health care informatics and modeling.
  • Identifies business owners with health care informatics needs and work with them to define reports and reporting schedule.
  • Identifies staffing needs to enhance modeling and reporting abilities and participates in recruitment
  • Implements plans for capturing and creating new data elements, working with Health Plan CIO and information services staff.
  • Makes recommendations of reporting, based upon industry standards and competitor knowledge
  • Monitors and oversee reporting process to assure business owner needs are met
  • Serves as a consultant to insure coordination in systems planning, development and implementation between utilization management and other areas needing reporting, development, information systems, and external organizations.
Qualifications:
  • Advanced degree in Bioinformatics, Statistics, Economics; Decision Science, Health Services Research or related field. Ph.D. (highly preferred) or Master of Science Degree with at least five years of modeling and program design experience.
  • Minimum of five years experience in the development, implementation and oversight of models related to health services research and medical information programs, or related work experience required.
  • Knowledge of statistical and reporting methodologies.
  • Strong planning and analytic design skills
  • Expertise in working with health insurance claims databases. Ability to work with advanced data analytic software and models.
  • Ability to design programs to analyze complicated scenarios.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills


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Additional Info:
Status: Full-Time

Regular/Temporary: Regular

Shift: Day

Facility: UPMC Health Plan

Department: HEALTH ECONOMICS

Location: 600 Grant St, Pittsburgh PA 15219

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UPMC is an equal opportunity employer. Minority/Females/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

Salary Range: $37.21 to $64.26

Union Position: No

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