Data Scientist-Pharmacy

About the position

Full time position working for Rhode Island Hospital (RIH) providing services at RIH 593 Eddy Street Providence RI; The Miriam Hospital 164 Summit Avenue Providence RI; Newport Hospital 20 Powel Avenue Newport RI; Bradley Hospital 1011 Veterans Memorial Parkway East Providence RI; Lifespan Specialty Pharmacy 117 Chapman Street Providence RI; and remotely at 307 Greenwich Avenue Apt. E223 Warwick RI.

Responsibilities

• Reporting to the Team Lead Pharmacy Business Operations and Clinical Intelligence.
• Running analytical experiments and solution development to support all areas of pharmacy services.
• Developing explanatory and predictive models utilizing modern methods.
• Regularly evaluating existing analytics and utilizing data storytelling.
• Serving as backup and support to the Systems and Analytics Specialists on the team.
• Utilizing technical analytical statistical and applied math skills to support pharmacy services.
• Extracting knowledge from data to drive action.
• Researching and developing statistical learning models for data analysis.
• Designing, building, and troubleshooting data Extract Transfer Load (ETL) processes.
• Designing, building, and troubleshooting highly functional data visualizations utilizing Microsoft Power BI or similar tools.
• Collaborating with pharmacy clinical and operational staff to understand health system needs.
• Keeping up to date with the latest technology trends.
• Sharing successes with other healthcare organizations through journal publication and presentations.
• Collaborating in the design of business processes for efficient data collection.
• Participating in pharmacy quality improvement.
• Supporting and taking part in pharmacy research initiatives.
• Working jointly with stakeholders throughout the healthcare organization.
• Maintaining and troubleshooting internal webpages, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, and Filemaker solutions.
• Building, maintaining, and troubleshooting basic reports from various data sources.
• Designing and/or implementing solutions to security vulnerabilities.
• Responsible for weekly rotating on-call coverage.

Requirements

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science with concentration in Data Analytics or a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and two years’ work experience in a data analytics and programming position.
• Experience in preparation of advanced SQL statements including subqueries, aggregations, and query optimization.
• Development of programming code used in at least two projects utilized in a production business environment.
• Completion of at least two data mining and statistical analysis projects in a business environment.
• Explanation of at least two complex data or coding projects to coworkers without coding or data analysis skills.
• Transforming data from one data structure to another in a business environment.
• Training at least 2 predictive analytics models and identifying patterns in how the models predict.
• Use of statistical programming languages Python or R in a business environment.