SAS Data Scientist I: Health Data Analytics & Harmonization

National Opinion Research Center - NORC; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 104,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k)/403(b)

Paid time off

Dental and vision insurance

Employee assistance program

Job summary

NORC at the University of Chicago is seeking a qualified Data Scientist I in the Health Sciences Department to support hospital discharge data processing across states and harmonize files into a uniform format. Proficiency in SAS is required, with experience in healthcare data preferred.

This role analyzes data, develops reports and visualizations, and collaborates with research teams to meet analytic needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in quantitative fields; advanced degree preferred.
• 4 years of progressively responsible experience with large data sets and statistical/analytic programming.
• Advanced SAS programming including macros.
• Experience with SQL, Python or R and data visualization tools a plus.
• Healthcare or administrative claims data experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Collect, clean, transform, validate, and harmonize data from diverse sources.
• Identify trends and data quality issues; communicate findings to teams.
• Create reports, dashboards, tables, charts, and visualizations.
• Create and maintain databases, data systems, and data dictionaries.
• Support data storage optimization and data management procedures.
• Collaborate with research teams to meet analytical needs.
• Contribute to proposal development and drafting technical sections.

Skills

Data management

Statistics

Quantitative analysis

Technical writing

Data visualization

MS Office

Healthcare data

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative fields

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

SAS macros

SQL

Python

R

Tableau

Hadoop

Hive

MapReduce

MS Office

Job description

NORC at the University of Chicago is seeking a qualified Data Scientist I in the Health Sciences Department to support hospital discharge data processing across states and harmonize files into a uniform format. Proficiency in SAS is required, with experience in healthcare data preferred.

This role analyzes data, develops reports and visualizations, and collaborates with research teams to meet analytic needs.