Senior Data Scientist - Clinical Informatics (Analytics Enablement)

Based in Washington State on site, CVS Health seeks aSenior Data Scientist to activate the clinical data repository, empowering analysts and data scientists with accessible, well-documented data. The role focuses on building clinical data models, a feature store, and analytics assets to support healthcare analytics and AI/ML initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Act as a subject matter expert for clinical data, including CCD data, claims, pharmacy, lab results, and clinical documentation, with a deep understanding of how to structure and apply this data to address healthcare problems.
• Design and maintain clinical data models, taxonomies, and classification frameworks to enable consistent interpretation and usage across the organization.
• Develop the clinical data feature store, establishing standards, documentation, and best practices that speed adoption of clinical data for downstream analytics, reporting, and AI/ML use cases.
• Create analytics-ready data assets (tables, views, features) that are well documented and validated, enabling analysts and data scientists to work independently with clinical data.
• Produce and maintain comprehensive data documentation, including data dictionaries, lineage, business logic, known limitations, and appropriate use guidelines for clinical datasets.
• Build queries, dashboards, and data visualizations to communicate data quality metrics, data availability, and clinical insights to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate with clinical, operational, and business stakeholders to understand data needs, translate requirements into data solutions, and ensure assets meet analytical objectives.
• Maintain data quality frameworks for clinical data, including validation rules, anomaly detection, and monitoring processes to ensure data integrity and reliability.
• Translate clinical concepts into analytical frameworks so business partners understand the capabilities and limitations of available clinical data.
• Coordinate with data engineering teams to guide data pipeline development, ensuring ingestion, transformation, and storage support downstream analytics needs.
• Contribute to data governance initiatives, including HIPAA compliance, data privacy regulations, and internal data stewardship policies.
• Develop and deliver training, presentations, and consultations to current and prospective data consumers on clinical data assets, appropriate use, and analytics opportunities.
• Keep current with clinical data standards (HL7, FHIR, ICD-10, SNOMED-CT, LOINC, CPT, NDC, RxNorm) and industry best practices in clinical informatics.

Requirements

• 4+ years of relevant experience in clinical informatics, healthcare analytics, or clinical data management.
• Expertise with clinical data types and structures, including CCD data, lab results, clinical notes, and administrative healthcare data.
• Strong knowledge of clinical coding systems and terminologies such as ICD-10, CPT, HCPCS, SNOMED-CT, LOINC, NDC, and RxNorm.
• Experience designing and documenting data models, taxonomies, or classification frameworks for clinical or healthcare data.
• Proven ability to enable and support downstream data consumers through documentation, training, and consultative support.
• Proficiency with SQL and experience working with large-scale healthcare datasets.
• Experience using cloud-based data platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP) tools including BigQuery.
• Strong understanding of data quality principles, including validation, profiling, and monitoring of healthcare data.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex clinical data concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Bachelor’s degree required.

Technologies

• SQL
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• BigQuery

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Paid time off
• Retirement savings options
• Wellness programs
• Other resources (based on eligibility)

Anticipated Weekly Hours

40

Time Type

Full time

Pay Range

$83,430 - $222,480 per year