Medicaid Data Scientist (51665)

Index Analytics; Baltimore (MD); Remote; USD 150,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

Index Analytics, a Baltimore-based health data consultancy, seeks a Senior Data Scientist to support federal clients in Baltimore and the DC metro area. The role centers on deriving value from Medicaid/CHIP data using domain knowledge, statistics, and programming.

You will conduct research, build models, create dashboards, and communicate complex results to clients and technical audiences. A US-working status and strong analytics background are essential.

Qualifications

• US citizen or authorized to work in the US and able to obtain a government badge.
• Bachelor’s degree with 6+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience with CMS/Medicaid/CHIP data domains preferred.
• Experience with data analysis or research in Medicaid/CHIP areas preferred.
• Proficiency in Python, R, SQL or PySpark; strong visualization skills.
• Experience with GitHub and CI/CD tools like Jenkins.

Responsibilities

• Formulate research, support solution development for Medicaid/CHIP policy.
• Perform statistical analysis, data mining, and predictive modeling.
• Visualize data and produce ad hoc reports for stakeholders.
• Communicate findings to clients and scientific audiences.
• Build predictive models, data visualizations, and analysis tools.
• Work in an agile team of data analysts and scientists.

Skills

Python

R

SQL

PySpark

Text analytics

NLP

Statistical methods

Data visualization

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

GitHub

Jenkins

Tableau

Power BI

Amazon QuickSight

Job description

Job Details: Level: Senior, Job Location: Remote - Baltimore, MD, Education Level: 4 Year Degree, Salary Range: $150000.00 - $172000.00Salary/year, Index Analytics, LLC, is a rapidly growing, Baltimore-based business providing health-related consulting services to the federal government. At the center of our company culture is a commitment to instilling a dynamic and employee-friendly place to work. We place a priority on promoting a supportive and collegial team environment and enhancing staff experience through career development and educational opportunities.

Position Overview

Index Analytics is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to support Government clients in the Baltimore and Washington D.C. Metro Area. The Senior Data Scientist creates value from data by using domain knowledge, statistical analysis, and programming to solve healthcare challenges.

Responsibilities

• Formulate Research, support development of solutions and recommendations for building value added products and solutions enhancing the current business operations and policy for Medicaid and CHIP programs.
• Perform routine business analysis and independent research using various techniques (e.g. statistical analysis, explanatory and predictive modeling, data mining), provide business data interpretation on Medicaid data sets to include beneficiary eligibility and enrollment, claims, expenditures, program oversight, scorecards, utilization metrics, performance data and more.
• Work with variety of Stakeholders to identify analytical requirements and produce ad hoc data and reports that visualize data using industry best practices for HCD and UX.
• Conduct qualitative design research and exploratory data analysis to recommend solutions to meet new policy initiatives and enhance overall program oversight and performance.
• Research and analyze data sources for trends, patterns and clusters to help further the analysis process to develop features for CMS business needs.
• Work in an agile environment with a team of data analysts and scientists.
• Perform data mining using state-of-the-art methods.
• Perform data analysis, prepare, and review highly complex reports.
• Develop technical documentation and deliverables (presentation slides, reports, draft manuscripts) with high quality and relevant viewpoints.
• Communicate findings to clients and scientific audiences, through both oral presentations; able to translate complex nuances to others.
• Build predictive models, data visualizations, and tools for analysis.

Qualifications

• US citizen or Authorized to Work and lived in the US for 3 of the last 5 years. Must be able to obtain a U.S. Federal government client badge and pass a government Public Trust.
• A bachelor’s degree with at least 6 years of relevant experience.
• Prior experience with Center for Medicare Medicaid Services or other Govt agencies is preferred
• Prior experience in conducting data analysis or research in one or more Medicaid and CHIP data domains such as Eligibility and Enrollment, Performance Indicator data, TAF, Behavioral Health, Expenditures, 416T reports, and Health outcomes is preferred.
• Experience with Code repository tools like GitHub and automation with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, to manage code and testing pipelines.
• Subject matter expert on text analytics
• Experience applying statistical methods and concepts, such as distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc.
• 4+ years of experience conducting complex data analysis, use of visualization techniques to support data driven decision making for effective program administration, policy making, and program oversight with overall improvements.
• Experience applying statistical methods such as distributions, hypothesis testing, regression, exploratory analysis, or predictive modeling to complex program or healthcare data.
• Proficiency in one or more analytical languages or platforms, such as Python, R, SQL, or PySpark.
• Experience with visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or Amazon QuickSight is a plus.
• Experience with unstructured data, text analytics, natural language processing, large language models, knowledge graphs, ontologies, or taxonomies is a plus.
• Experience with common data science toolkits, such as R, Weka, NumPy, MatLab, etc.
• Ability to demonstrate excellent written and oral communication required
• Experience using Python and/or similar technologies is a plus

Disclaimer

Index Analytics provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and