Lead Data Specialist New

Cohere Health, Inc.; Mississippi; Remote; USD 115,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Cohere Health, a rapidly growing clinical intelligence company, is seeking a Lead Data Specialist. This role involves ensuring data integrity, implementing best practices in data governance, and providing crucial support to analytics efforts to optimize patient care paths. Ideal candidates will be experienced in the healthcare technology field and have a strong commitment to improving patient outcomes.

Benefits

Health insurance

401k

Bonus

Qualifications

• 5+ years data experience at health technology company.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with health technology data.
• Expertise in data governance, including data cataloging, lineage, and quality management.

Responsibilities

• Drive best practices in data management across platforms.
• Establish and maintain an enterprise data catalog.
• Monitor and maintain data accuracy and completeness.

Skills

Data governance practices

Data management

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor in health informatics, data analytics, or related areas

Masters preferred

Job description

Cohere Health is a fast-growing clinical intelligence company that’s improving lives at scale by promoting the best patient-specific care options, using cutting-edge AI combined with deep clinical expertise. In only four years our solutions have been adopted by health plans covering over 15 million lives, while our revenues and company size have quadrupled. That growth combined with capital raises totaling $106M positions us extremely well for continued success. Our awards include: 2023 and 2024 BuiltIn Best Place to Work; Top 5 LinkedIn Startup; TripleTree iAward; multiple KLAS Research Points of Light awards, along with recognition on Fierce Healthcare's Fierce 15 and CB Insights' Digital Health 150 lists.

Opportunity overview

We are looking for a Lead Data Specialist to come join our awesome team. As the Lead Data Specialist your responsibility will be to make sure data in our application and analytics platform is trustworthy, reliable, organized and well managed to support real-time transactions and downstream analytics needs. You will be the data steward of key data assets for our organization - improving the governance and useability of the data. You will work with engineering, products, analytics, clinical and operations to improve data quality, ensure proper data use, and improve data literacy. The work will be fast-paced yet enterprise-centric, with evolving needs - requiring discipline, flexibility, curiosity, and grace under pressure.

At a growing organization, this is a position that offers the ability to make a substantive mark on the company and its partners with exponential growth opportunities. You will be part of the Data & AI organization and build one Cohere data platform to support our downstream teams to optimize patient care paths.

What you will do:

• Drive best practices in data and information management throughout Cohere’s application and analytic platforms
• Work cross-functionality to establish and maintain enterprise data catalog, capturing business, clinical & operational nuance and specificity, including data lineage and metric definitions
• Provide training and support to promote data discoverability and establish guardrail to ensure proper data use
• Work with data producers, data engineering, and consumers to establish and maintain data contracts and data quality standards
• Monitoring and maintaining data accuracy, completeness, consistency, and timeliness
• Accelerate our “shift left” data governance framework, including adherence to standards related to data validation, storage, and management
• Collaborate with compliance and IT to establish proper data security and privacy controls
• Bachelor in health informatics, data analytics, or related areas (Masters preferred)
• 5+ years data experience at health technology company where health outcomes were critical to the mission, preferably a healthcare analytics company or population health organization
• Passionate about improving the U.S. healthcare system and helping ensure every patient receives the best care possible
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with health technology data, including administrative, clinical and patient outcome data, conducting in-depth analysis to support data-driven decision making
• Expertise in data governance practices, including data cataloging, lineage, and quality management
• Proven track record in leading through influence, ability to drive cross-functional complex data projects in a fast-paced and high-intensity “scale-up” environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills to collaborate with business, technical, and clinical leaders to define and govern data quality metrics

We can't wait to learn more about you and meet you at Cohere Health!

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Cohere Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all. To us, it's personal.

The salary range for this position is $115,000.00 to $135,000.00 annually; as part of a total benefits package which includes health insurance, 401k and bonus. In accordance with state applicable laws, Cohere is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. Individual pay decisions are ultimately based on a number of factors, including but not limited to qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and internal alignment.

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