UMass Memorial Health | Hiring | Data Scientist | Worcester, MA | BigDataKB.com | 5 Oct 2022

Requisition #: 232376

Title: Data Scientist

Department: Data Management

Location: UMass Memorial Medical Center

Posting Date: 08/23/2022

Shift: Days

Status: Exempt

Hours: 40

Shift Length: 8

Position Summary:

Under the direction of the Office of Clinical Integration (OCI) Management team, supports and prepares the interpretation and program evaluation of performance improvement opportunities through the use of statistical, algorithmic, mining, and visualization techniques. Collaborates at all levels of the organization to accomplish the value-based program goals and UMass Memorial Health Care (UMMHC) enterprise strategic goals and objectives.

Major Responsibilities:

• Supports and prepares reports and analyses for the management team and Senior Data Scientists for Population Health analytics projects by working closely with internal, affiliate and community based customers and executives, Information Services (IS) staff, project managers, program directors, and other OCI teams to turn data into critical information/knowledge that can be used to make sound organizational decisions.
• Follows through on process improvement and evaluation opportunities to increase the efficiency of the reporting process. Applies advanced statistical and/or predictive modeling techniques to improve multiple real-time, people-centric (dynamic) systems.
• Combines seemingly unrelated data concepts to identify trends and to solve complex problems.
• Works with Senior Data Scientists to design experiments and tests hypotheses to support quality and/or financial performance improvement initiatives. Evaluates options to complex problems by using mathematics and statistical methods.
• Leads process discovery sessions to define operation definitions for data and identify stakeholder’s requirements for work in an ambiguous, constantly changing environment.

Position Qualifications:

License/Certification/Education:

Required:

• Master’s Degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, Data Sciences, Social Sciences, or equivalent field required within 12 months of hire.

Experience/Skills:

Required:

• Experience working with data from the financial, healthcare, software or equivalent industry in a function utilizing advanced statistical techniques and concepts (regression, properties of distributions, statistical tests and proper usage, etc.).
• Experience using statistical computer languages (R, Python, SQL, etc.) to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets.
• Experience with statistical and data mining techniques.
• Experience in developing processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance and data accuracy.
• Experience using statistical software such as SAS, IBM SPSS.
• Experience with Data Visualization/presentation skills and experience with Tableau.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work in a team environment.

Preferred:

• Coding knowledge and experience with several languages (e.g. C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• Experience working with and creating data architectures.
• Knowledge of machine learning techniques.
• Understanding of medical terminology and healthcare finance.
• Experience working with Optum Performance Analytics, medical claims data.

• Experience working with Epic as a data source for analytical work.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.