[Remote] Sr Data Scientist, Clinical Intelligence

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CVS Health is hiring a Sr Data Scientist, Clinical Intelligence to turn pharmacy claims, dispensing, adjudication, and related data into clinically meaningful measures and actionable analyses for Medical Affairs. The role develops recurring dashboards and metrics and conducts focused analyses of medication access, affordability, adherence, utilization, formulary performance, safety, and outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Applies SQL, statistical programming, and visualization tools to explore, analyze, and interpret large pharmacy datasets and solve defined clinical and business problems
• Develops and maintains analytical frameworks, key metrics, and dashboard content related to medication access, affordability, adherence, utilization, formulary performance, quality, clinical outcomes, and operational performance
• Translates stakeholder questions into documented analytic specifications, including eligible populations, treatment definitions, drug-code lists, index dates, baseline and follow-up periods, outcomes, and exclusions
• Works with PBM and related client, member, drug, pharmacy, prescriber, prior-authorization, and payment data
• Uses NDC, GPI, generic product, brand, therapeutic class, route, and other drug reference information to create and validate medication cohorts
• Analyzes formulary compliance, preferred product use, generic and biosimilar adoption, exceptions, prior authorization, approval and overturn patterns, member out-of-pocket cost, specialty utilization, and other access or affordability measures
• Partners with Clinical Evidence Development on feasibility assessments, exposure definitions, comparator selection, adherence measures, outcomes, confounding assessment, validation, and interpretation
• Collaborates with the Sr. BI Engineer to operationalize validated measures and analytic datasets in governed, automated reporting products
• Follows privacy, client-data segregation, security, access, and data governance requirements for protected health information and confidential business data

Skills

• 2 to 4 years of relevant experience in pharmacy analytics, PBM analytics, healthcare data science, pharmacoepidemiology, outcomes research, clinical informatics, or a related field
• Experience working with pharmacy claims, dispensing data, medication utilization, or adherence measures
• Proficiency in SQL and working proficiency in R, Python, SAS, or another statistical programming language
• Working knowledge of drug identifiers and classifications such as NDC, GPI, generic product, brand, and therapeutic class
• Experience developing dashboards, KPI frameworks, analytic datasets, or decision-support analyses
• Working knowledge of problem solving and decision making, with strong attention to data detail and analytic accuracy
• Ability to communicate technical and clinical findings to nontechnical stakeholders
• Experience PBM data
• Knowledge of claims adjudication, prior authorization, formulary operations, specialty pharmacy, retail pharmacy, rebates, or net-cost concepts
• Experience implementing PDC, persistence, PQA, CMS Star medication, formulary, biosimilar, or member-affordability measures
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform, Tableau, Power BI, or Strategy
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent specialized training or relevant professional qualification
• Advanced training in biostatistics, epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, health services research, public health, pharmacy, data science, informatics, statistics, or a related field

Benefits

• Eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.
• Remote work

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