Northwell Health

Data Scientist - 3 days onsite/2 remote

Northwell Health$110K — $130K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Manhasset, NY
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Informatics, Statistics, Engineering, Data Science, or related field required; Master's preferred.
  • Minimum of 2 years of experience in quantitative data analysis, ideally with clinical data and data science.
  • Familiarity with medical and health information technology concepts, including electronic health records and data warehousing.
  • Proficiency in SQL and programming languages like Python or R required.
  • Strong grasp of statistical modeling, machine learning techniques, and algorithms for data analysis.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with the Quality Improvement team to ensure IRB compliance.
  • Support physicians in developing statistical analysis methodologies for research.
  • Design, implement, and maintain data science models and applications.
  • Apply data science methodologies, including predictive modeling and data analytics, to support clinical initiatives.
  • Translate complex data issues into actionable strategies and communicate them to stakeholders.
  • Assist in developing project specifications to optimize data science initiatives.
  • Evaluate systems and projects to enhance clinical quality and operational efficiency.

Benefits

  • Access to advanced data analysis tools and technologies.
  • Collaboration with cross-functional research teams in a clinical setting.
  • Opportunity to contribute to public health initiatives and peer-reviewed publications.
  • Engagement in ongoing educational opportunities to enhance data science and analytical skills.
  • Support in compliance with regulatory standards and data integrity.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Job Description

This position, you will be responsible for extracting, transforming, and managing large-scale medical and clinical datasets from our Databricks lakehouse platform, ensuring data integrity, quality, and compliance with healthcare data standards such as HIPAA. Leveraging your expertise in statistical analysis, you will design and implement robust analytical methodologies to identify meaningful patterns, trends, and correlations within complex healthcare data. You will collaborate closely with clinicians, epidemiologists, and cross-functional research teams to translate analytical findings into actionable insights that support clinical decision-making, public health initiatives, and peer-reviewed publications.

Job Responsibility
  • Works collaboratively with QI team to ensure IRB compliance
  • Assists physicians in development of statistical analysis methodologies for research
  • Works collaboratively to design, implement and maintain data science models and applications.
  • Works on programs to apply data science methodologies, including predictive modeling and machine learning, data analytics and visualization, and usability and design, to departmental, service line, and enterprise applications and functions.
  • Synthesizes complex data-related problems into actionable business and/or clinical strategy, and communicate findings to appropriate end-users and stakeholders.
  • Assists with the development of specifications to support the design of new or modified data science projects, with a focus on data-driven optimization, enhancement, and development.
  • Assists in the evaluation of projects, systems, and initiatives at the department, service line, and enterprise level; ensures projects and their outputs enhance clinical quality, patient safety, and institutional efficiency, focusing on all aspects of data science, including data gathering and wrangling, exploratory data analysis, data modeling and machine learning, and model implementation and evaluation; ensures high quality execution of all proposed projects.
  • Knowledgeable in present and planned data science projects and maintains voice of the customer in all project initiatives.
  • Serves as the link between the clinical staff (customer) requirements and IS capabilities.
  • Assists in ensuring that systems are implemented to support organization initiatives and goals to improve the quality of patient care, to maximize patient safety, and to provide operational efficiencies.
  • Serves as a resource to the leadership; demonstrates familiarity with current hospital information systems.
  • Operates under general guidance and work assignments are varied and require interpretation and independent decisions on course of action.
  • Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related are not essential functions.

Job Qualification

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Informatics, Statistics, Engineering, Data Science, or related field, required. Master's Degree, preferred.
  • Minimum of two (2) years of post-graduate training or experience involving quantitative data analysis, required and working with clinical data, data science, and machine learning, preferred.
  • Working familiarity with basic medical and health information technology concepts, including standardized terminologies and ontologies and electronic health records, as well as Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence tools, required.
  • Expertise in working with SQL relational databases and statistical or general programming languages (e.g., Python, R), required.
  • Deep understanding of statistical and predictive modeling concepts, machine-learning approaches, clustering and classification techniques, and recommendation and optimization algorithms.


HIGHLY PREFERRED
  • PhD Degree


*Additional Salary Detail
The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future. When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).

About Northwell Health

Northwell Health is a non-profit healthcare organization that provides clinical care, research, and medical education in New York. It is the largest healthcare provider and private employer in the state of New York, with over 72000 employees. Northwell Health has 23 hospitals and more than 700 outpatient facilities, as well as a medical school and a research institute. The organization was founded in 1997 as North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System and changed its name to Northwell Health in 2015.
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