Flatiron Health · 4 hours ago
Senior Research Scientist, Statistical Programming
Durham office
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
4+ years expFlatiron Health is reimagining the infrastructure of cancer care within a community that values integrity and inspires growth. They are seeking a Senior Research Scientist on their Statistical Programming team to provide scientific oversight for statistical analyses, mentor staff, and collaborate with stakeholders on client-sponsored research studies.
BiotechnologyCloud ComputingElectronic Health Record (EHR)Health CareHealth DiagnosticsHospitalPersonal Health
Responsibilities
Provide scientific oversight for the programming of statistical analyses on multiple, simultaneous research projects
Provide consultation on complex epidemiologic/statistical methods, study design, data limitations, and data models to other statistical programming staff
Independently translate analytic specifications from a statistical analysis plan into R code to create analytic datasets, generating descriptive and inferential statistics, data visualizations, often involving novel variables or complex statistical methods, in consultation with the study principal investigator
Serve as subject matter expert on appropriate use cases for, and nuances of, the variety of different Flatiron data modalities, including EHR-derived real-world data, clinico-genomics data, ML-extracted data, and claims data
Apply expertise in cancer biology, therapy, and/or epidemiology across multiple major tumor types to analytic code and scientific oversight
Provide mentorship and support to other statistical programming staff
Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders across our medical and scientific organization to execute and deliver on client-sponsored research studies in an accurate, effective, and timely manner
Lead initiatives for the continuous improvement of Flatiron’s proprietary analytical tooling
Qualification
Required
You hold a Doctorate degree (e.g., PhD, ScD, DrPH) in Biostatistics/Statistics, Data Science, Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Public Health, Math, or a closely related field with 4-5+ years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree with 7-8+ years of relevant experience
You have a deep understanding of real-world data and related epidemiology and biostatistics methodologies used to generate real-world evidence
You are an excellent programmer in R (including tidyverse) and are proficient working in Git-based environments (e.g., Github, Gitlab)
You have extensive experience conducting analyses with large healthcare-related datasets (e.g., administrative claims, electronic medical records, genomics)
You possess the data curiosity to proactively identify and solve for unexpected patterns
You have strong leadership, communication, prioritization and decision-making skills necessary to oversee, evaluate, plan and implement multiple high-visibility projects in a timely fashion
You have the ability to lead projects and people effectively in a constantly changing, diverse, and matrix environment
You have a growth mindset, are willing to learn from others, and are dedicated to promoting a psychologically safe environment
You are passionate about our mission to improve healthcare through technology
Preferred
You have experience working with oncology datasets
You can write SQL queries
You have experience in predictive modeling
You have experience leading teams, either as a manager or project/team lead
Company
Flatiron Health
Flatiron Health is a healthcare technology company that aims to improve lives by learning from the experience of every cancer patient.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$324.95MKey Investors
RocheGoogle Ventures
2021-12-23Series D· $11.95M
2018-02-15Acquired
2016-01-06Series C· $175M
Leadership Team
Stephanie Reisinger
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Real-World Evidence (RWE)
Jacqueline Law
Vice President, Corporate Development
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