Caris Life Sciences

Senior Scientist, Claims and Real-World Data

Caris Life Sciences$110K — $130K *
Tempe, AZ 85281In-Person
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Advanced degree (PhD, MSc, or MPH) in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with administrative claims data in healthcare analytics.
  • Expertise in building claims-derived variables such as line of therapy and outcome endpoints.
  • Knowledge of claims-to-clinical linkage and HIPAA compliance.
  • Proficient in programming (SQL and Python or R) with a focus on data quality control.
  • Strong communication skills for engaging with partners and customers.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.

Responsibilities

  • Design, transform, and ensure quality control of claims-derived data products.
  • Define and document claims phenotyping and outcome derivations with standardized logic.
  • Validate claims-to-molecular linkage logic while ensuring privacy compliance.
  • Establish quality assurance frameworks and maintain a data dictionary.
  • Act as the claims subject-matter expert in technical discussions with stakeholders.
  • Support analytics deliverables showcasing the value of claims and molecular data.
  • Collaborate with teams to harmonize claims with electronic medical records.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive job-specific, safety, and compliance training provided.
  • Opportunity for professional growth as a subject-matter expert.
  • Involvement in impactful projects linking healthcare data to real-world outcomes.
Full Job Description
Position Summary
The Senior Scientist, Claims and Real-World Data is a Senior-level individual contributor and the subject-matter expert behind high-quality claims-derived data products. This role designs and continually improves the transformation, harmonization, and quality control that turn raw administrative claims into reliable, research-ready real-world data linked to molecular information. It is a chance to own a scientifically rigorous data asset from end to end and to build claims data that researchers and partners trust and rely on.

Job Responsibilities
  • Own the design, transformation logic, and quality control of claims-derived data products, such as demographics, diagnoses, procedures, drugs, radiation, and mortality, ensuring fitness for purpose, traceability, and auditability.
  • Define and document claims phenotyping, line-of-therapy, treatment-episode, and outcome derivations using standardized, versioned logic.
  • Validate claims-to-molecular linkage and tokenization logic, partnering with privacy and legal teams to ensure compliant linkage and data sharing.
  • Establish quality assurance and quality control frameworks and a maintained data dictionary, emphasizing proactive, reproducible validation.
  • Serve as the claims subject-matter expert in technical discussions with partners and prospective customers.
  • Support analytics and feasibility deliverables that demonstrate the value of combined claims and molecular data.
  • Partner with clinical and data product teams to harmonize claims with electronic medical record and pathology sources.
  • Contribute to customer education, training, and documentation for real-world data.


Required Qualifications
  • Advanced degree (PhD, MSc, or MPH) in epidemiology, biostatistics, health economics and outcomes research, health informatics, or a related field; or equivalent demonstrable experience.
  • 5+ years working hands-on with administrative claims data (for example, medical and pharmacy claims, open and closed claims) in a real-world evidence or healthcare analytics setting.
  • Demonstrated expertise building claims-derived variables, including line of therapy, treatment episodes, comorbidity indices, and outcome and mortality endpoints.
  • Experience with claims-to-clinical or claims-to-molecular linkage, tokenization, and HIPAA-compliant data handling.
  • Strong programming skills (SQL and Python or R) and a rigorous data quality-control discipline.
  • Strong communication skills for technical discussions with partners and customers.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Word, Excel, Outlook, and general working knowledge of Internet for business use.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Oncology real-world-evidence experience, and familiarity with electronic medical record and molecular diagnostics data.
  • Familiarity with de-identification and expert determination, data governance, and dataset versioning.
  • Experience supporting data partnerships or real-world evidence study delivery.


Physical Demands
  • Will work at a computer most of the time, with some time spent collaborating with colleagues, partners, and business leaders, either in person or through remote conferencing.
  • Visual acuity and analytical skill to distinguish fine detail.
  • Must possess the ability to sit and/or stand for long periods of time.


Training
  • All job-specific, safety, and compliance training is assigned based on the job functions associated with this employee.


Other
  • This position requires periodic work-related travel (up to 20%) and some evenings, weekends and/or holidays.


Conditions of Employment: Individual must successfully complete pre-employment process, which includes criminal background check, drug screening, credit check ( applicable for certain positions) and reference verification.

This job description reflects management's assignment of essential functions. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

About Caris Life Sciences

Caris Life Sciences is a biotechnology company that specializes in providing molecular profiling and blood-based diagnostic technologies. The company offers services in various areas, including oncology, neurology, infectious diseases, and other complex diseases. Caris Life Sciences was founded in 2008 and is based in Irving, Texas.
Learn more about Caris Life Sciences
Size
1,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1996

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