Lead Data Scientist - Clinical Informatics; Clinical Data Standards

Position Summary

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.

CVS Health's Analytics & Behavior Change (A&BC) team is an organization working to solve some of the most challenging problems at the intersection of technology and healthcare. A&BC leverages advanced analytics, clinical informatics, and hypothesis-driven approaches to transform data into actionable, customer‑centric insights that drive growth, improve health outcomes, and expand access to healthcare across all CVS Health businesses. Our teams build next-generation data and AI products that help power CVS Health to make healthier happen for 100+ million customers.

The A&BC organization is looking to grow its Clinical Data Science & AI team.

As a Lead Data Scientist - Clinical Informatics (Clinical Data Standards), you are tasked with activating CVS Health's clinical data repository to improve outcomes across multiple lines of business and use cases. You will serve as a bridge between clinical data assets and the analysts, data scientists, and business partners who consume them—ensuring data is accessible, well‑documented, fit for purpose, and aligned with clinical and regulatory standards.

• Serve as a subject matter expert in clinical data, including CCD data, with deep understanding of how to structure and apply this data to solve healthcare problems.
• Design and maintain clinical data models, taxonomies, and classification frameworks that enable consistent interpretation and use of clinical data across the organization.
• Develop and govern the clinical data feature store, establishing standards, documentation, and best practices that accelerate adoption of clinical data for downstream analytics, reporting, and AI/ML use cases.
• Enable self‑service analytics by building well‑documented, validated, and reusable data assets (tables, views, features) that empower analysts and data scientists to work independently with clinical data.
• Create 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 effectively communicate data quality metrics, data availability, and clinical insights to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Partner with clinical, operational, and business stakeholders to understand their data needs, translate requirements into data solutions, and ensure clinical data assets meet their analytical objectives.
• Lead and mentor data scientists, data analysts, and data engineers, providing guidance on clinical data interpretation, appropriate use, and best practices for working with healthcare data.
• Establish 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, ensuring that business partners understand the capabilities and limitations of available clinical data.
• Collaborate with data engineering teams to inform data pipeline development, ensuring clinical data is ingested, transformed, and stored in ways that support downstream analytics needs.
• Contribute to data governance initiatives, including compliance with HIPAA, data privacy regulations, and internal data stewardship policies.
• Develop and deliver training, presentations, and consultations to existing and prospective data consumers on clinical data assets, appropriate use, and analytics opportunities.
• Stay current with clinical data standards (HL7, FHIR, ICD-10, SNOMED-CT, LOINC, CPT, NDC, RxNorm) and industry best practices in clinical informatics.

• 7+ years of relevant experience in clinical informatics, healthcare analytics,…