Senior Scientist, Real‑World Data & Claims Analytics

Caris Life Sciences; Tempe (AZ); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Caris Life Sciences seeks a Senior Scientist, Claims and Real-World Data to own end-to-end claims-derived data products linked to molecular information. You will define phenotyping, verify linkage to molecular data, and establish robust QA practices while collaborating with legal and privacy teams.

As a senior contributor, you will guide data product quality, support analytics, and contribute to customer education and documentation, enabling researchers to leverage integrated data assets.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in epidemiology, biostatistics, health economics/outcomes research, health informatics, or related field.
• 5+ years hands-on experience with administrative claims data in real-world evidence or healthcare analytics.
• Expertise building claims-derived variables (line of therapy, treatment episodes, comorbidity indices, outcomes).
• Experience with claims-to-clinical or claims-to-molecular linkage, tokenization, and HIPAA-compliant data handling.
• Strong SQL and Python or R programming skills with rigorous data quality-control discipline.
• Strong communication skills for technical discussions with partners and customers.

Responsibilities

• Own design, transformation logic, and quality control of claims-derived data products (demographics, diagnoses, procedures, drugs, mortality).
• Define and document claims phenotyping, line-of-therapy, treatment-episode, and outcome derivations using versioned logic.
• Validate claims-to-molecular linkage and tokenization with privacy/legal teams.
• Establish QA/QC frameworks and a maintained data dictionary.
• Serve as claims SME in technical discussions with partners and customers.
• Support analytics and feasibility deliverables demonstrating value of combined data.
• Partner with clinical and data product teams to harmonize claims with EMR and pathology sources.
• Contribute to customer education, training, and documentation for real-world data.

Skills

5+ years claims data experience

SQL

Python or R

Data quality discipline

Communication skills

Education

PhD, MSc or MPH in epidemiology/biostatistics/health economics

Tools

SQL

Python

R

Job description

Caris Life Sciences seeks a Senior Scientist, Claims and Real-World Data to own end-to-end claims-derived data products linked to molecular information. You will define phenotyping, verify linkage to molecular data, and establish robust QA practices while collaborating with legal and privacy teams.

As a senior contributor, you will guide data product quality, support analytics, and contribute to customer education and documentation, enabling researchers to leverage integrated data assets.