Senior Decision Scientist - RWE/SS&C

at  CVS Health

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POSITION SUMMARY

Join this dynamic and growing team! CVS Health Real-World Evidence (RWE) organization provides analytical and advisory services that meet the market and clinical challenges faced by pharmaceutical, biotech, and device companies. Our services use real world data, advanced technologies, and professional know-how to illuminate therapeutic and economic value. We offer collaborative resources across CVS to promote forward-looking research into real-world outcomes and the realities of therapeutic use in genuine clinical settings. You have the opportunity to work fully remote within the United States.
The mission of the Safety Surveillance & Collaboration (SS&C) team, CVS Health Real World Evidence, is to actively monitor the US public health in collaboration with Food and Drug Administration (FDA), academic institutions, and other health insurance companies. The SS&C team conducts descriptive research, medical chart review validations, and pragmatic research using the FDA Sentinel Common Data Model (SCDM), Sentinel and Distributed Research Network (DRN) tools, Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) CDM, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Initiative (PCORI) CDM, and Aetna’s Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW).
With supervision, the Senior Decision Scientist role will support extraction-transformation-load including understanding of the data sources; distributed research methods and queries using industry common data models (e.g. Sentinel, OMOP, PCORI); research questions; data management; space management; and, data quality. This role will support the execution of distributed and ad hoc queries against industry Common Data Model structures. The role will contribute to the maintenance and refresh of the infrastructure required for the queries and optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources include immunization information systems (IIS) data into CDM to meet business needs. The role will use SAS to transform data into CDMs and execute distributed queries. The role is expected to review results, identify quality issues, and investigate root cause as well as document findings and other Data Management Plan items. The role is expected to work collaboratively in a team environment.

Responsibilities will include:

• Execute refresh of Common Data Models (CDMs), reviewing quality control, identifying, fixing quality problems and documentation
• Execution and Quality Control on Distributed modular program, review results, and document
• Creation and transformation of monthly refresh of files for up to 10 immunization information systems (IIS) Space management monitoring

To be a candidate for this role you will possess the following:

• Knowledge of FDA Sentinel Initiative (BEST, Sentinel, and/ or NESTcc program)
• Be self-directed
• Be able to critical think through problems

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of experience with SAS programming
• 5+ years’ experience with healthcare claims data analysis
• 3+ years’ experience in health care data management and analytics
• 3+ years’ experience with extract-transform-load data files
• Experience working with and integrating large datasets from multiple sources
• Experience in preparation and data management plan/ documentation
• Experience with Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP), FDA Sentinel Common Data Model (CDM), and/or Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) CDM

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Analytical background in pharmacovigilance, pharmacoeconomics, safety surveillance, and/or outcomes research using Real World Datasets
• SQL for data management and analysis
• Git-hub
• Experience in MS Excel, MS PowerPoint for reporting, Tableau
• Adapt and create with assistance production processes to automate routine data management tasks

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s required
• Master’s preferred

Responsibilities will include:

• Execute refresh of Common Data Models (CDMs), reviewing quality control, identifying, fixing quality problems and documentation
• Execution and Quality Control on Distributed modular program, review results, and document
• Creation and transformation of monthly refresh of files for up to 10 immunization information systems (IIS) Space management monitorin

To be a candidate for this role you will possess the following:

• Knowledge of FDA Sentinel Initiative (BEST, Sentinel, and/ or NESTcc program)
• Be self-directed
• Be able to critical think through problem