Director, Scientific Data Insights at Datavant2 — Remote

As a Director, Scientific Data Insights you will be a key team leader responsible for leading client-facing interactions to understand their data needs and providing directives on fit-for-purpose datasets and data model creation. You will also collaborate internally to deploy new data sources and advise on data opportunities and potential data partnerships to support data strategy objectives.

Responsibilities

The following duties and capabilities include, but are not limited to:

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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
• SQL coding experience is a plus
• 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

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The range posted is for a given job title, which can include multiple levels. Individual rates for the same job title may differ based on their level, responsibilities, skills, and experience for a specific job. This role is eligible for additional variable compensation.

The estimated base salary range (not including variable pay) for this role is:

$180,000—$200,000 USD