Senior Data Scientist
Trella Health
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Pennsylvania, Tennessee • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
Tech Stack
PySparkPythonSparkSQL
About the role
- Work with vast national datasets of medical and pharmacy claims data to interpret, analyze, and build datasets that deliver actionable insights to Trella’s proprietary solutions.
- Design, build, and maintain scalable Databricks workflows and jobs for processing healthcare claims data.
- Develop and optimize PySpark and SQL pipelines for performance, reliability, and efficiency.
- Implement data quality monitoring and validation frameworks to ensure completeness, accuracy, and consistency of claims data.
- Support modernization by refactoring legacy SAS scripts into Databricks.
- Act as a subject matter expert on healthcare data sources, calculations, and methodologies.
- Collaborate with the product team to size and scope new analytic projects, defining specifications and requirements.
- Continuously enhance your knowledge of the healthcare industry through independent research and professional development.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in data science, preferably within healthcare space.
- Advanced SQL and Python skills (e.g. writing complex data processing scripts and automating workflows).
- Experience working with Databricks, including Spark SQL and PySpark for analytics, data modeling, and machine learning workflows.
- A deep understanding of data lineage to track and visualize data dependencies, identifying upstream/downstream impacts.
- Experience with statistical modeling including regression, imputation techniques, and risk scoring.
- Strong knowledge of medical claims data (e.g., Medicare, Medicaid, Commercial) as well as medical coding systems (ICD10, CPT, HCPCS, MS DRG, NPPES NPI).
- Excellent problem-solving, time management, and communication skills.
- Familiarity with software development tools like Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket.
- A passion for using data to improve healthcare and a love for solving complex problems.
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in a technical field or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Health, Dental, Vision & Voluntary Benefits
- Competitive Salary & Bonus Plans
- 401k Retirement Savings
- Flexible PTO & 10 Paid Holidays
- Flexible Work Hours
- Equity Shares
- Paid Leave Programs
- Marketplace for discounted retail and entertainment
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Hard skills
SQLPythonPySparkDatabricksdata processingstatistical modelingdata quality monitoringdata validationdata lineagemachine learning
Soft skills
problem-solvingtime managementcommunication