Data Scientist at Abacus Insights

Abacus Insights is a mission-driven technology company focused on transforming the healthcare industry, ultimately creating a more personalized patient experience, improving health outcomes, and lowering the overall cost of healthcare. Abacus Insights provides a flexible, efficient, and secure platform that organizes and exchanges healthcare data from various sources and formats, allowing our customers to uncover differentiated insights that address their clients' needs. In addition, our employees know that they play an active role in keeping our customers' data safe and are responsible for ensuring that our comprehensive policies and practices are met.
With our deep expertise in cloud-enabled technologies and knowledge of the healthcare industry, we have built an innovative data integration and management platform that allows healthcare payers access to data that has been historically siloed and inaccessible. As a result, these payers can ingest and manage all the information they need to transform their business by supporting their analytical, operational, and financial needs through our platform.
Since our founding in 2017, Abacus has built a highly successful SaaS business, raising more than $81 Million by leading VC firms with profound expertise in the healthcare and technology industries. We are solving massive complex problems in an industry ready for disruption. We're building powerful momentum and would love for you to be a part of it!
About the Team & Role:As part of the Analytic Solutions team – the Data Scientist II is a person who uses extensive technical and business knowledge to develop and maintain analytic solutions for prospects and existing Abacus Insight clients. In addition, you will be working closely with all the business leaders by acting in an essential role in bridging the technical and business needs to design solutions and services that inspire our customers and are compelling to the market.
You Will:

Drive innovation and lead the continual development of analytic solutions to expand use of the underlying Abacus data platform; subject areas include provider cost & network analytics, risk adjustment, medical trend, and population health/value-based careDefine key performance and business value metrics incorporated in analytic solutions that measure clients’ operational and financial performance, and highlight the value generated by Abacus
Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Delivery, and Security teams at Abacus
Work closely with Sales team to create strategies that will drive “technical wins” leading to the acquisition of new customers and upsells to existing customers
Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies
Help to determine customers' needs and desires by working directly with key clients, capability leadership, and specifying the research needed to obtain market information

What we're looking for: 

5+ years of experience in the healthcare industry
Highly proficient programming skills in SQL Python, and/or R
Master’s or Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business, Statistics, Mathematics, Healthcare, Data Science, or equivalent field
Subject matter expertise in areas of healthcare and clinical data
Strong payer/provider knowledge with hands-on experience in architecting, designing, and developing analytic tools
Proven ability to successfully collaborate with internal stakeholders from various parts of the organization and drive successful outcomes cross-functionally
Strong technical background combined with solid business experience
Ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines
Highly collaborative and with the ability to lead by influence
Familiarity with Cloud Services like AWS, Azure, and data terms – JSON, ETL tools, data mappings, data profiling, SQL, data pipelines entity resolution, data catalog, data governance, data distribution, running or writing simple python scripts
Working knowledge of data architecture fundamentals – data model concepts. analytical vs. operational workloads, latency and performance considerations
Preferably knowledge in machine learning and time-series modeling

Equal Opportunity Employer:As a mission-led technology company helping to drive better healthcare outcomes, Abacus Insights believes that the best innovation and value we can bring to our customers comes from diverse ideas, thoughts, experiences, and perspectives. Therefore, we are dedicated to building diverse teams and providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. As well as prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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