Northwell Health

Data Scientist - 3 days onsite/2 remote

Northwell Health  •  Manhasset, NY (Remote)  •  6 days ago
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Job Description

This position, you will be responsible for extracting, transforming, and managing large-scale medical and clinical datasets from our Databricks lakehouse platform, ensuring data integrity, quality, and compliance with healthcare data standards such as HIPAA. Leveraging your expertise in statistical analysis, you will design and implement robust analytical methodologies to identify meaningful patterns, trends, and correlations within complex healthcare data. You will collaborate closely with clinicians, epidemiologists, and cross-functional research teams to translate analytical findings into actionable insights that support clinical decision-making, public health initiatives, and peer-reviewed publications.

Job Responsibility

  • Works collaboratively with QI team to ensure IRB compliance
  • Assists physicians in development of statistical analysis methodologies for research
  • Works collaboratively to design, implement and maintain data science models and applications.
  • Works on programs to apply data science methodologies, including predictive modeling and machine learning, data analytics and visualization, and usability and design, to departmental, service line, and enterprise applications and functions.
  • Synthesizes complex data-related problems into actionable business and/or clinical strategy, and communicate findings to appropriate end-users and stakeholders.
  • Assists with the development of specifications to support the design of new or modified data science projects, with a focus on data-driven optimization, enhancement, and development.
  • Assists in the evaluation of projects, systems, and initiatives at the department, service line, and enterprise level; ensures projects and their outputs enhance clinical quality, patient safety, and institutional efficiency, focusing on all aspects of data science, including data gathering and wrangling, exploratory data analysis, data modeling and machine learning, and model implementation and evaluation; ensures high quality execution of all proposed projects.
  • Knowledgeable in present and planned data science projects and maintains voice of the customer in all project initiatives.
  • Serves as the link between the clinical staff (customer) requirements and IS capabilities.
  • Assists in ensuring that systems are implemented to support organization initiatives and goals to improve the quality of patient care, to maximize patient safety, and to provide operational efficiencies.
  • Serves as a resource to the leadership; demonstrates familiarity with current hospital information systems.
  • Operates under general guidance and work assignments are varied and require interpretation and independent decisions on course of action.
  • Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related are not essential functions.

Job Qualification

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Informatics, Statistics, Engineering, Data Science, or related field, required. Master’s Degree, preferred.
  • Minimum of two (2) years of post-graduate training or experience involving quantitative data analysis, required and working with clinical data, data science, and machine learning, preferred.
  • Working familiarity with basic medical and health information technology concepts, including standardized terminologies and ontologies and electronic health records, as well as Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence tools, required.
  • Expertise in working with SQL relational databases and statistical or general programming languages (e.g., Python, R), required.
  • Deep understanding of statistical and predictive modeling concepts, machine-learning approaches, clustering and classification techniques, and recommendation and optimization algorithms.

HIGHLY PREFERRED

  • PhD Degree

*Additional Salary Detail

The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future. When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).

Northwell Health

About Northwell Health

Northwell Health is New York State’s largest health care provider and private employer, with 28 hospitals, about 1,000+ outpatient facilities and more than 16,000 affiliated physicians.

At Northwell, we focus on cultivating an environment that inspires growth, empowers leadership, and encourages breakthroughs, not just in the communities we serve but in the careers of those who make an impact in the lives of so many. We are committed to our mission and our core values – including being Truly Inclusive. We value everyone’s perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. This is demonstrated in the work we do together, and how we care for each other, our patients, their families and the communities we serve.

We care for over two million people annually in the New York metro area and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities. Our 100,000+ employees – 19,000+ nurses and 5,000+ employed doctors, including members of Northwell Health Physician Partners – are working to change health care for the better. 

We’re making breakthroughs in medicine at The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. We're training the next generation of medical professionals at the visionary Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and the Hofstra Northwell School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies.

For information on our more than 100 medical specialties, visit Northwell.edu and follow us @NorthwellHealth on Facebook, X, Instagram and LinkedIn.

Interested in a career at Northwell Health? Visit Jobs.Northwell.edu and explore our many opportunities.

Industry
Healthcare & Social Services
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Lake Success, NY
Year Founded
1997
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