Data Scientist

Site: The General Hospital Corporation

 

Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit, we support patient care, research, teaching, and community service, striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham.

 

The Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at Massachusetts General Hospital is seeking a Data Scientist to provide analytic and project management support for its reproductive health research initiatives. The Data Scientist position requires strong project management and data analytic skills, experience with large healthcare datasets (claims, electronic health records, etc), close attention to detail and timelines, discretion in handling sensitive information, and strong interpersonal skills. The candidate will perform data management, statistical analysis, and report preparation to facilitate the analysis of and interpretation of healthcare data. The position offers significant involvement in an exciting area of research and a collaborative research environment.

Our research group uses data generated from the routine delivery of healthcare to learn about care delivery, evaluate the effectiveness of medical interventions, and generate evidence that can inform patients, providers and policy makers. Ultimately, we seek to conduct studies that result in improved care for pregnancy, cancers of the female reproductive organs, infertility, and other issue that affect persons with female reproductive organs.

 

Job Summary

Summary
Responsible for analyzing data, uncovering the underlying data patterns and logic, and developing data-driven applications. They will work towards developing solutions for the entire problem-solving cycle: find/prioritize the problems, research the best algorithms to solve the problems, design robust, practical solvers, and implement them.

Does this position require Patient Care?
No

Essential Functions
-Analyze complex and high-dimensional clinical and operational data for dependencies, patterns, outliers, inaccuracies, and validity.
-Apply knowledge of statistics, machine learning, programming, data modeling, simulation, and/or advanced mathematics to recognize patterns, identify opportunities, pose business questions, and make valuable discoveries.
-Contribute to the design and evaluation of optimal data-driven metrics (such as physician/facility performance criteria, bottleneck metrics, productivity limits, processing delay/error reports, etc.).
-Use a flexible, analytical approach to design, develop, and evaluate predictive models and advanced algorithms that lead to optimal value extraction from the data.
-Generate and test hypotheses and analyze and interpret the results.

 

Qualifications

Education
Bachelor's Degree Related Field of Study required or Master's Degree Related Field of Study preferred

Can this role accept experience in lieu of a degree?
Yes

Experience
Experience working in data science-type positions and with large data sets 2-3 years preferred

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Ability to create reports and dashboards with Tableau.
- Skilled in data analysis with Python and SQL.
- Knowledge of statistics.
- Knowledge of machine learning.
- Preferred SQL database management and administrative knowledge.
- Practiced knowledge of numerical optimization algorithms.

 

Additional Job Details (if applicable)

 

Remote Type

Remote

 

Work Location

265 Charles Street

 

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

 

Employee Type

Regular

 

Work Shift

Day (United States of America)

 

Pay Range

$75,275.20 - $109,553.60/Annual

 

Grade

6

 

At Mass General Brigham, we believe in recognizing and rewarding the unique value each team member brings to our organization. Our approach to determining base pay is comprehensive, and any offer extended will take into account your skills, relevant experience if applicable, education, certifications and other essential factors. The base pay information provided offers an estimate based on the minimum job qualifications; however, it does not encompass all elements contributing to your total compensation package. In addition to competitive base pay, we offer comprehensive benefits, career advancement opportunities, differentials, premiums and bonuses as applicable and recognition pr