What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Scientist position at ConvenientMD?
At ConvenientMD we’re on a mission to make good health more convenient for all - working to improve how patients and providers experience healthcare in New England. To support this belief, we’re building a team of dedicated professionals who genuinely care about improving lives, are passionate about work that can make a difference, and driven to learn from one another.
We’re looking for a confident and collaborative Data Scientist who has experience working with complex datasets and multiple sources of data. This role requires the applicant to have experience in transforming data into metrics, automated reports, and dashboards providing actionable insights to improve decision-making at all levels of the business. In order to be successful in this role, the applicant must have strong data management skills and communicate directly with executive leadership.
There's a job and then there's purposeful, transformative work. Our aim is to create a workplace where you can learn, grow, and continuously refine your skills. Applicants rarely meet every single job requirement, and we appreciate that many skills and backgrounds can make people successful in this role. If you’re looking for a great next step, and want to feel good about what you do, we’d love to hear from you.
What you’ll do
- Develops a deep familiarity with a variety of data sources including transactional databases, data warehouses, internal tools, and external integrations.
- Develops reports, dashboards, and tools using SQL, PowerBI, and ArcGIS (as well as other tools).
- Develop our Value-Based Care data infrastructure to continue to enhance the business.
- Analyzes and interprets enrollment, revenue, and claims (utilization and unit cost) data to identify and solve business problems and continuously improve data-driven strategies and processes to improve financial results.
- Develop and replicate enterprise-wide metrics using raw source data.
- Takes ownership of our data and constantly improves its quality and integrity; proactively identifying issues at every step and coordinating the implementation of required fixes.
- Leverages data analytics and modeling to test, validate and track the return of investment of existing and proposed strategies and initiatives.
- Partners with business stakeholders to understand their requirements and assist in the development of dashboards, visualizations, and solutions tailored to their needs.
- Documents existing processes, architectures, and code.
- Analyzes emerging medical cost results and forecasts the impact of those results on future periods (including identification and execution of actions to improve those results).
- Performs other duties as assigned and modified at the manager’s discretion.
About you
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, Data Science, or related required
- A minimum of 3 years of ETL and/or SQL development experience
- A minimum of 3 years’ RDBMS experience (MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, etc.)
- A minimum of 3 years of healthcare industry experience (or equivalent educational background)
- Experience programming with a high-level scripting language (Python, Perl, C#, etc.)
- Experience working with a variety of reporting and analytic tools (SSRS strongly preferred)
- Proven experience working with business units; gathering their needs and creating solutions
- Experience in query tuning and database engine optimization desired
- Experience in database programming, stored procedures, data imports and exports desired
The perks
- Competitive compensation with medical, dental, vision
- 401K with matching contribution
- Fast growing company with the opportunity to advance and take on more responsibility
- Collaborative environment at our office in Portsmouth, NH
A note about remote
Our clinics are open seven days a week and staffed by people who are dedicated to serving public health. To support them, and as an expression of solidarity, everyone at our headquarters works in the office. While we are flexible about personal needs, this is not a remote or partially remote position.
