Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Datavant is the data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare, providing critical data solutions for organizations across the healthcare ecosystem. As a Director, Scientific Data Insights, you will lead client-facing interactions to understand their data needs and provide directives on datasets and data model creation.
Responsibilities
- Developing data models, both the design and ability to map different data sets to a data model that was designed by the candidate
- Understanding how stacking data works (putting two or more data sets together that are similar)
- Understanding how linking data works (putting two or more data sets together that are different)
- Reading data dictionaries, be able to develop data dictionaries for clients, know data dictionaries best practices
- Ability to liaise between client and internal technical teams on data model design and transformation
- Developing internal and external frameworks to assess datasets and identify best-fit for various use cases
- Advising internal stakeholders on best datasets for therapeutic areas and analytic solutions; lead the effort to validate and assess datasets with key internal constituents, and determine key research questions that can be addressed by specific data sources
- Communicating with leadership and key internal constituents on data strategy and priorities
- Liaising between external data partners and internal sales, delivery, product and engineering teams to deploy new data sources
- Working in a highly collaborative and matrixed environment
Skills
- 7+ years of operational or management experience using real-world data, with preference for use in life sciences and/or other healthcare industries
- Master's degree in a science-related field, or an engineering degree at the undergraduate level or above
- Analytical experience with health care data; capabilities in acquiring and analyzing clinical data sets, and longitudinal patient data; experience with choosing and applying real-world data to specific research questions as well as entire therapeutic areas
- Ability to develop and manage processes, operations and technology for data set ingestion and implementation
- Excellent time management skills and ability to multitask and prioritize work
- Exceptional attention to detail and extremely strong problem-solving skills to anticipate and proactively recommend solutions
- Ability to self-motivate and lead others– while the person will be an individual contributor at this time, they will be expected to manage other team's timelines and team members within projects
- Strong written and verbal communications, including with senior executives and customers
- Travel as required
- SQL coding experience is a plus
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