Data Scientist

Overview

At Trella Health, we are passionate and committed to our mission: empowering meaningful change in healthcare. Since our founding in 2015, we continue to grow our team, enhance our solution and services offerings, accelerate into new markets, and expand our customer base. We are rapidly growing and are looking for new Trellavators to join our team!

“What is a Trellavator?” you ask. Innovate and elevate is the name of our game! We go above and beyond to collaborate with and support each other. We believe that when a colleague or customers succeeds, we succeed. By learning from others, building on our successes, and taking risks, we constantly raise the bar. After all, continuous improvement is in our DNA.

Our word is paramount, we keep our commitments, and we always follow through. We have a strong, reliable support system that fuels growth, collaboration, and passion—and together, we create a positive environment where everyone at Trella Health, including the customers we support, can thrive. Are you ready to learn more about the opportunities with our team? Trell-yeah you are!

Position Overview:
We are looking for a Data Scientist to join our Data Science & Engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for turning medical and pharmacy claims data into measures and actionable insights within our software as a Service (SaaS) solution. You will utilize your strong quantitative analysis, SQL, and Python skills to create and analyze scripts to compute metrics and impact downstream data sets.

You will work cross-functionally with the data engineering, product, and data quality teams to ensure our data pipelines are accurate, efficient, and high quality. We re looking for someone who is intellectually curious and passionate about continuous learning, especially when solving problems within healthcare data.

Location
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This role is remote with a strong preference for candidates within commuting distance of Atlanta, GA;
Philadelphia, PA; or Nashville, TN. We will also consider applicants based in other U.S. locations.

Reports to
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Data Science Manager

As a Data Scientist at Trella, you will:

• Work with vast national datasets of medical and pharmacy claims data to interpret, analyze, and build datasets that deliver actionable insights to Trella’s proprietary solutions.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable Databricks workflows and jobs for processing healthcare claims data.
• Develop and optimize PySpark and SQL pipelines for performance, reliability, and efficiency.
• Implement data quality monitoring and validation frameworks to ensure completeness, accuracy, and consistency of claims data.
• Support modernization by refactoring legacy SAS scripts into Databricks.
• Act as a subject matter expert on healthcare data sources, calculations, and methodologies.
• Collaborate with the product team to size and scope new analytic projects, defining specifications and requirements.
• Continuously enhance your knowledge of the healthcare industry through independent research and professional development.

This job might be a fit for you if you have:

• 4+ years of experience in data science, preferably within healthcare space.
• Advanced SQL and Python skills (e.g. writing complex data processing scripts and automating workflows).
• Experience working with Databricks, including analytics, data modeling, and machine learning workflows.
• Understanding of data lineage to track and visualize data dependencies, identifying upstream/downstream impacts.
• Experience with statistical modeling including regression, imputation techniques, and risk scoring.
• Knowledge of medical claims data (e.g., Medicare, Medicaid, Commercial) as well as medical coding systems (ICD
  10, CPT, HCPCS, MS DRG, NPPES NPI).
• Excellent problem-solving, time management, and communication skills.
• Familiarity with software development tools like Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket.
• A passion for using data to improve healthcare and a love for solving complex problems.
• Bachelor s or Master s degree in a technical field or equivalent experience.

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