Veeva
Senior Data Scientist
Massachusetts - Boston · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$135k-$185kDetected 28 days ago
PythonAlgorithmsSQLMachine LearningSparkData ScienceNLPStatisticsCustomer SuccessEHR/EMR
About the role
- An example of opportunities for this role include: Tackle the unwinding of the "Super Patient" anomaly, a data-merging challenge causing abandonment of high-value clinical transactions.
- This person will be excited about applying NLP, ML, and AI principles on a large data set and returning accurate, performant results across a variety of health data attributes.
- This is a great opportunity to be at the forefront of innovation and help us solve some of the most challenging problems in healthcare data and analytics.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Analysts, Software Engineers, Data Engineers, and QA to discover and deliver product offerings from prototype to scale, then iterate and enhance
- Build data science driven approaches to solve "known" core problems to the business, and conduct more broad exploration to uncover the "unknown," and drive new improvement opportunities
- Important skills include querying, data cleansing, experiment design, solution assessment, and identifying scaling challenges
- Rapidly build prototype product solutions, communicate findings, and iterate
Requirements
- 4+ years of hands-on data science and statistics experience (or 2+ years with a Ph.D degree), demonstrating increasing responsibility and impact over time, including experience as the point person
- Experience in at least one framework for large datasets (e.g. Spark)
- Experience working with engineering to productionalize models including scaling, monitoring, and documentation
- Demonstrated ability to communicate statistical, mathematical, and computational concepts to audiences of varying technical levels
- Ability to work independently and across internal teams
Compensation
- $135,000 - $185,000
- The salary range listed here has been provided to comply with local regulations and represents a potential base salary range for this role.
- Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range above or below, depending on experience and location.
- We look at compensation for each individual and base our offer on your unique qualifications, experience, and expected contributions.
- This position may also be eligible for other types of compensation in addition to base salary, such as variable bonus and/or stock bonus.
- #LI-Remote #LI-MidSenior Veeva's headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.
Benefits
- This position may also be eligible for other types of compensation in addition to base salary, such as variable bonus and/or stock bonus.
- As a Senior Data Scientist on the Veeva Compass Patient team, you will be a founding data scientist that owns the greenfield design methodologies and models that tackle large scale complex health data issues.
- Apply statistical, machine learning, and data mining techniques to large health data sets to build new products and methodologies
- M.S. or Ph.D. in Applied Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Machine Learning or another quantitative discipline
- Experience with healthcare data, including prescription / medical claims data, EHR data, Lab data, Specialty Pharmacy data, copay data
Company info
- Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed.
- We're not just any public company - we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.
- As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.
- Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.
- The Role As a Senior Data Scientist on the Veeva Compass Patient team, you will be a founding data scientist that owns the greenfield design methodologies and models that tackle large scale complex health data issues.
- An example of opportunities for this role include:
- Tackle the unwinding of the "Super Patient" anomaly, a data-merging challenge causing abandonment of high-value clinical transactions.
- Build a support structure for natural language search interface on top of medical and pharmacy claims data, for users to query data outside of traditional SQL-like query tools.
- You'll work closely with Product Managers, Data Analysts, and Engineering teams to design and deliver features, including performance measurement, anomaly detection, and quality monitoring.
- This person will be excited about having complete latitude to pioneer creative, inference-based models-leveraging techniques ranging from token entropy scoring to clinical transaction pattern recognition-to successfully unravel complex identity overlaps and salvage mission-critical data without relying on the raw PHI.
- You are excited about statistics and data science at scale on big data and taking billions of records to build algorithms in a computationally efficient and statistically effective manner while being able to keep the business problems we are working to solve in mind.
Equal opportunity
- Veeva is an equal opportunity employer.
- If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us at talent_accommodations@veeva.com.
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