Healthcare Data Scientist Associate (Hybrid)

American Addiction Centers; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 57,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

Health/Dental/Vision

Flexible Spending Accounts

Parental leave

Retirement plan with employer match

Educational Assistance

Job summary

Advocate Health, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, seeks a data analytics professional to deliver insights that improve healthcare quality, patient experience, and cost efficiency. The role focuses on scalable analyses, model development, and translating complex results for senior leaders.

The candidate will work on healthcare data, including claims and EHR, with 2+ years of experience and strong SAS/R skills, contributing to strategic decision-making in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Requires an MS in Statistics, Epidemiology, Health Services Research, Economics, Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, or closely related areas; PhD preferred.
• Minimum of 2 years professional experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience with SAS and/or R, other data mining tools, databases, and computer programming required; SAS certification preferred.
• Experience with healthcare claims, pharmaceutical, and EHR data preferred.
• Excellent oral, written, and technical communication skills and ability to communicate complex relationships using data to drive change.

Responsibilities

• With minimal guidance, use advanced statistical and computational methodologies to deliver insights and strategic opportunities to improve the quality, patient experience, and cost of healthcare.
• Establish scalable, efficient, and automated processes for large scale data analyses and model development, validation, and implementation.
• Proactively monitor and analyze complex systems to understand, diagnose, and continuously improve key performance indicators.
• Write statistical methodology and results for technical reports and publications.
• Manipulate, refine, and integrate large databases to produce information for analysis.

Skills

Statistical analysis

Data visualization

Programming (SAS/R)

Communication

Project leadership

Education

MS in Statistics

PhD preferred

Tools

SAS

R

Job description

Advocate Health, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, seeks a data analytics professional to deliver insights that improve healthcare quality, patient experience, and cost efficiency. The role focuses on scalable analyses, model development, and translating complex results for senior leaders.

The candidate will work on healthcare data, including claims and EHR, with 2+ years of experience and strong SAS/R skills, contributing to strategic decision-making in a hybrid work environment.