Data Scientist (Medicaid)

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical expertise to further the development of reports as well as evaluate and recommend tools for data reporting and analysis.
• Assist in the development of scalable, organization-wide dashboards and reporting.
• Utilize Client claim and clinical data to perform advanced analysis to identify patterns, trends and insights using advanced analytical tools and methods.
• Collaborate with DOM technical and non-technical teams to develop and document production of reports generated for Medicare & Medicaid Services and other external entities.
• Identify possible gaps and recommend solutions for existing data and reporting/analytics solutions.
• Review reporting produced by external entities to ensure whether methods and presentation are sound, accurate, and consistent with Department expectations.
• Support data literacy initiatives to educate Department users on availability of and potential use cases for client data.
• Participate and contribute data and analytics expertise in agency projects as needed.
• Identify and assist with evaluation of project opportunities, risks, and impact to other areas.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 7 years working as a data scientist with Information Technology (IT) projects.
• 3 years' experience working with Medicaid programs to develop organizational data strategy and improve data quality by reinforcing data integrity
• 3 years' experience with building and developing reports, including working with tools such as the R Project for Statistical Computing, Microsoft Power BI, and other tools
• 3 years' experience working with technical and non-technical users of data
• 3 years' experience communicating, presenting, and teaching both technical and non-technical project members, including in person, at meetings and discussions with project members, etc.
• 3 years' experience managing workloads to meet critical timelines and deadlines for IT projects

Preferred (Not required)

• 3 years' experience with Healthcare IT projects and healthcare data
• 3 years' experience with Medicaid projects or Healthcare payer projects