Senior Scientist, Real-World Data & Claims Analytics

Caris MPI, Inc.; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 130,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Caris Life Sciences in Phoenix seeks a Senior Scientist, Claims and Real-World Data, to transform raw administrative claims into research-ready data linked to molecular information. You will own design, transformation logic, QA, and data dictionary maintenance for reusable data assets.

Collaborate with privacy, legal, clinical, and data product teams to ensure compliant linkage, standardized phenotyping, and clear customer education and documentation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on with administrative claims data in real-world evidence or healthcare analytics.
• Experience building claims-derived variables (line of therapy, treatment episodes, outcomes, mortality).
• Experience with claims-to-clinical or claims-to-molecular linkage and HIPAA handling.
• Strong programming skills in SQL and Python or R and data-quality discipline.
• Excellent communication for technical discussions with partners and customers.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, transformation logic, and quality control of claims-derived data products, such as demographics, diagnoses, procedures, drugs, radiation, and mortality.
• Define and document claims phenotyping, line-of-therapy, treatment-episode, and outcome derivations using standardized logic.
• Validate claims-to-molecular linkage and tokenization logic, ensuring compliant data sharing.
• Establish QA/QC frameworks and maintain a data dictionary with reproducible validation.
• Support analytics and feasibility deliverables demonstrating value of combined claims and molecular data.
• Collaborate with clinical and data product teams to harmonize claims with EMR and pathology sources.

Skills

SQL

Python

R

Data QC

Claims data

Education

Advanced degree in epidemiology/biostatistics/health informatics or related field

Tools

HIPAA compliance knowledge

EMR linkage standards

Data dictionary management

Job description

Caris Life Sciences in Phoenix seeks a Senior Scientist, Claims and Real-World Data, to transform raw administrative claims into research-ready data linked to molecular information. You will own design, transformation logic, QA, and data dictionary maintenance for reusable data assets.

Collaborate with privacy, legal, clinical, and data product teams to ensure compliant linkage, standardized phenotyping, and clear customer education and documentation.