[Remote] Data Scientist

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Programmers.io is seeking a Data Scientist for a remote contract role supporting healthcare analytics and client reporting. The role focuses on developing and validating methodologies for risk adjustment, attribution, utilization, cost trends, savings, and outcomes measurement, while partnering with client-facing, data engineering, and architecture teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and improve the analytics behind client reporting, including cost of care trend, utilization, program impact, and return on investment
• Build and validate measurement methodology such as risk adjustment, cohort construction, attribution logic, and comparison group design
• Turn analytic output into reporting that a client audience can read and trust, partnering with client facing teams on narrative and presentation
• Document methodology so results can be explained, audited, and reproduced
• Partner with data engineering and the data architect on the models and data assets reporting depends on
• Investigate anomalies and questions raised by clients or internal stakeholders and close them with evidence

Skills

• 5 or more years of analytics or data science experience in healthcare, with direct exposure to healthcare economics, actuarial analytics, or value based care measurement
• Strong SQL plus Python or R for analysis and modeling
• Working knowledge of medical and pharmacy claims data, including standard code sets and common data quality pitfalls
• Demonstrated ability to explain methodology and findings to non technical audiences
• Experience with risk adjustment models, quality measure sets, or shared savings and total cost of care programs
• Experience building client facing or externally published reporting
• Experience working in Snowflake and with modern BI tooling

Benefits

• Remote role
• Contract role (open for C2C or W2)

Company Overview

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