Phamily is a leading AI-based care management company serving healthcare providers. They are seeking a Lead Data Scientist to lead a clinical outcomes study, focusing on quantifying the impact of their healthcare management programs.
Responsibilities:
- Study Design & Execution: Lead a longitudinal, quasi-experimental study starting May 7 to measure clinical outcomes, specifically hospitalization frequency and discharge follow-ups
- Causal Inference Modeling: Apply advanced methodologies (e.g., propensity score matching) to observational data to estimate counterfactual patient outcomes with minimal bias
- Actuarial-Grade Validation: Develop and refine statistical models that will be thoroughly vetted and approved by customer actuaries
- Stakeholder Management: Serve as the primary analytical face to SCMG, gathering requirements and aligning on clinical/business definitions of success
- Data Storytelling : Translate complex statistical findings into compelling presentations and client-ready reports for both technical and non-technical leadership
- Vendor Audit & Wrap-up: Extract usable value from an existing outsourced study, close out the vendor contract, and integrate relevant findings into the final study
- Technical Infrastructure: Navigate and build analytics reporting infrastructure using SQL, Python, dbt, Redshift, and Looker
- Project Handoff: Ensure all code is clean and reproducible for final handover to the internal Phamily BI team
Requirements:
- Health-Tech Expertise: Deep experience in causal inference, metric design, and clinical outcomes evaluation
- Data Proficiency: Extensive experience working with complex EHR and healthcare claims data
- Advanced Analytics Toolkit: Highly capable in Python, R, SQL, dbt, Redshift, and Looker
- Statistical Matching: Proven experience developing algorithms for high-dimensional statistical matching with large datasets
- Security Standards: Practical experience maintaining strict PHI security protocols while building data infrastructure
- Analytical Rigor: Ability to design and execute 'actuarial-grade' studies that control for significant confounding variables
- Communication: Exceptional ability to synthesize technical data into narratives for non-technical clients
- Education: Advanced degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Data Science, Statistics, Health Economics, or Epidemiology)
- Entrepreneurial DNA: A 'builder' mentality with the ability to operate effectively in high-ambiguity environments where processes may not be fully fleshed out
- HEOR Consulting: Prior background as a Health Economics & Outcomes Research (HEOR) consultant
- Actuarial Alignment: Experience in presenting methodology to and gaining approval from health system actuaries