RWE Data Scientist III

Company Description

• Katalyst Healthcares & Life Sciences is hiring entry level candidates for several positions for contract research in Clinical trials of drugs, biologics and medical devices.
• We have a few immediate job opportunities available in Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance and Clinical Research field. We work with University hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and recruiting partners.

Job Description

Overview:

• Role is responsible for designing, planning, and executing large scale data analysis, and algorithm development to identify gaps in the care continuum and to measure impact using RWD.
• This work highlights the value of utilizing real world data to inform or address strategic questions in the disease areas of interest to the client.
• The role involves the application of statistical theories, analytical methods, and technical programming skills to analyze clinical, survey, claims, and electronic medical record databases.
• Role supports the department as a technical subject matter expert on RWE analytics; candidate is expected to act as point of contact for the assigned therapeutic area (TA) on analytical needs, proactively mitigating, resolving and triaging issues and reducing the operational complexity needed.
• candidate is expected to standardize coding convention, and processes to increase efficiency.
• Candidates must be adept at breaking down complex data into easily understood language and/or visualization for less technical audiences. Candidates should also be creative in the use of RWD and propose solutions to answer business questions.

Responsibilities:

• The candidate is expected to have the potential to be the analytics lead for the assigned therapeutic area (TA) to mitigate, resolve and triage analytical complexities.
• Presenting results of analysis and contribute presentation of findings and key takeaways for various audiences.
• Identifying appropriate internal and external data resources and external expertise to execute strategies and research activities.
• Executing analysis plans and providing consultation to design as needed.
• Work with Medical engagement to understand key impact variables and use RWD to quantify and operationalize these variables.
• Responsibility and accountability for meeting timelines in complex matrix structure. This will require developing and maintaining effective cross-functional working relationships to assure effective teamwork and overseeing problem solving within the analytical team.
• Interactions with Medical Engagement, Business Unit TAs, HEOR, and RWE CoE regarding findings and with other members of the Analytical team that perform QC activities on their studies.
• Translating TA business needs into project concepts to develop supporting data dictionary and corresponding analysis.

Requirements:

• Master's degree in Statistics or related discipline required, PhD in statistics or closely related discipline (e.g., Health Economics and Outcomes research, Epidemiology, health services research etc.) preferred.
• Minimum of 1-2 years' experience in analytics programing (SAS, SQL, R, Python) required. The candidates with Python and machine learning experience are preferred.
• Ability to incorporate production code macros required, ability to execute programming assignments and problem solve issues independently, and ability to present complex research and data clearly to stakeholders.
• Experience and/or training in the application of advanced scientific and analytical methods in real world evidence generation.
• Ability to perform urgent analyses that are needed with short turnaround time and interact with internal and external collaborative partners on joint projects.
• Professional training in a healthcare field, experience in analysis of large medical claims datasets or prior experience in the UNIX/Hadoop environment preferred.

Additional Information

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