Senior Data Scientist, Analytics

Arcadia is dedicated to happier, healthier days for all. We transform diverse data into a unified fabric for health. Our platform delivers actionable insights for our customers to advance care and research, drive strategic growth, and achieve financial success. For more information, visit arcadia.io.

Why This Role Is Important to Arcadia

The Senior Data Scientist will join the analytics team of a high-growth Population Health and Analytics software company. This role reports to the Manager of analytics, and will involve creation of a highly impactful risk stratification model for an arcadia enterprise customer.

As a Data Scientist, you are central the success of the mission of Arcadia’s Data Science practice. Our Data Scientists have a broad range of responsibilities that both support the continuing growth of our team’s portfolio as well as their own growth as scientists and as professionals. Our expanding set of programs require thoughtful individuals who not only embrace the critical value of effective data analytics but also the value of scientific rigour around their development.

The ideal candidate loves data and wants to make a difference. We are seeking individuals who rely on data analysis to make decisions and are passionate about improving the way healthcare is delivered to millions of patients across the country. You should be eager to share population health expertise to help Arcadia’s customers unlock more from their data. 

What Success Looks Like

In 3 months

- Gain familiarity with Arcadia’s data model and data ingestion process

- Begin development of a data model for a risk stratification score

- Gain familiarity with Arcadia’s data science platform

In 6 months

- Have developed and delivered a risk stratification score to a large Arcadia customer

- Be comfortable discussing complex concepts with Arcadia customers

- Have a firm understanding of the Arcadia data science platform

- Understand customer use cases around ML/AI

In 12 months

- Be able to continually develop new high value algorithms in Arcadia’s data science platform

- Have met all requirements of development of initial risk stratification score

- Be able to collaborate with other Arcadian’s to maximize the value of data science within Arcadia’s ecosystem

What You'll Be Doing

• As a Data Scientist, your responsibilities will include building and testing new predictive tools, performing exploratory data analysis on extremely rich health care datasets, evaluating opportunities for new products, and creating effective and striking documents and visuals to share your knowledge and insights with others, both within Arcadia, among our customers, and to the general public.




More specifically you will:

• Intake external requests for analytic support such as

o Development of a highly impactful risk stratification model

o Continual improvements to a risk stratification model

• Help build out Arcadia’s feature store
• Help ideate and develop new data science models for use across the arcadia customer base

What You'll Bring

• 3+ Years of healthcare analytic experience
• Deep understanding of claims data
• Python experience
• Ability to query and manipulate relational databases with SQL
• Proven ability to develop ML algorithms
• Eagerness to learn, a detail-oriented mindset, and a creative approach to problem solving.

Would Love For You To Have

• Experience working at a data vendor and ACO/CIN Organization or health insurance company
• A passion for data modeling and model design
• Experience with the AWS platform and sagemaker
• Experience using collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence,

What You'll Get

• The opportunity to:

o Analyze large and diverse data sets on Arcadia’s custom data model built by analysts for analysts,

o Create value add IP and quickly distribute it to wide array of Arcadia customers

o Ideate with the best minds in healthcare through our advisory network,

o Support a wide variety of customers in the healthcare space – all focused on pulling healthcare tech into modernity.

• A collaborative team with decades of collective experience in population health, product development, and data science.
• A supportive and remote-work friendly company that provides frequent opportunities for fun and connection, as well as personal and professional development,
• Be a part of a mission driven company that is transforming the healthcare industry by changing the way patients receive care
• Competitive Compensation, Amazing Benefits including Flexible Time Off

About Arcadia

Arcadia.io helps innovative healthcare systems and health plans around the country transform healthcare to reduce cost while improving patient health. We do this by aggregating massive amounts of clinical and claims data, applying algorithms to identify opportunities to provide better patient care, and making those opportunities actionable by physicians at the point of care in near-real time. We are passionate about helping our customers drive meaningful outcomes. We are growing fast and have emerged as the market leader in the highly competitive population health management software and value-based care services markets, and we have been recognized by industry analysts KLAS, IDC, Forrester and Chilmark for our leadership. For a better sense of our brand and products, please explore our website, our online resources, and our interactive Data Gallery.

This position is responsible for following all Security policies and procedures in order to protect all PHI under Arcadia's custodianship as well as Arcadia Intellectual Properties. For any security-specific roles, the responsibilities would be further defined by the hiring manager.