**Join arenaflex, a leading healthcare and retail company, in its mission to create more joyful lives through better health. As an Experienced Data Scientist – Real-World Evidence (RWE), you will play a critical role in producing high-quality, actionable insights from real-world data to inform business decisions and drive growth.**
**About arenaflex**
arenaflex is a leading healthcare and retail company with a 170-year history of caring for communities. As a part of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA), arenaflex operates almost 9,000 retail locations across the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Our mission is to create more joyful lives through better health, and we are proud to be a community health destination serving almost 10 million customers every day.
**Job Responsibilities**
As an Experienced Data Scientist – RWE, you will be responsible for producing high-quality, actionable insights from real-world data to inform business decisions and drive growth. Your key responsibilities will include:
* **Data Preparation**: Develop and maintain standardized, evaluation-ready patient cohorts from in-house data properties or certified systems, examine and interpret results, and assist in forming analytics strategy.
* **Collaboration**: Partner with other members of the arenaflex Clinical Trial group to provide actionable insights from real-world, medical, and other data assets to support biopharmaceutical RWE and medical trial requests.
* **Data Analysis**: Perform data mining and statistical analysis to investigate RWE/RWD to identify new insights concerning patient populations and treatment results.
* **Data Visualization**: Build dashboards, analytics, and reports for internal and external consumption.
* **Due Diligence**: Conduct due diligence on new real-world data companies and perform RWD quality tests to inform investment decisions.
**Essential Qualifications**
* **Bachelor's Degree**: Bachelor's degree or graduate degree in a quantitative or computational field, such as computer science, mathematics, statistics, or engineering.
* **Programming Skills**: Four years of experience in R, Python, or SQL.
* **Statistical Analysis**: Experience in designing and executing strong and reproducible statistical analyses in the context of epidemiology and observational studies with healthcare data.
* **Data Management**: Experience processing large data from diverse data sources.
* **Healthcare Data**: Experience handling covered patient health data.
* **Data Visualization**: Knowledge of at least one of the following: Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx, Spotfire, or other BI intelligence tools.
**Preferred Qualifications**
* **Advanced Degree**: Ph.D. or Master's degree in a field such as statistics, biostatistics, computer science, mathematics, systems engineering, biomedical engineering, or a related field.
* **EMR/Health IT**: Expertise in electronic medical records (EMR) and health information technology (HIT), disease registries, and policy claims databases.
* **Clinical Data Standards**: Knowledge of medical data standards, clinical terminologies, and managed vocabularies used in healthcare data and ontologies (ICD9/10/ReadCode).
* **Regulatory Compliance**: Experience in Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and/or regulatory compliance guidelines for real-world evidence research or clinical trials (e.g., ISO, MDD/MDR, CFR).
* **Experimental Design**: Experience with experimental design, Bayesian modeling, sequential data, computational statistics.
* **Self-Learning**: Understanding of data and systems learning techniques, ability to maintain self-learning of technical and non-technical skills.
**Benefits**
* **Company-Paid Life Insurance**: arenaflex provides company-paid life insurance to ensure the well-being of our employees and their families.
* **Medical, Prescription Drugs, Dental, and Vision**: arenaflex offers comprehensive medical, prescription drugs, dental, and vision benefits to support the health and well-being of our employees.
* **Retirement Savings Plan – 401(k)**: arenaflex provides a retirement savings plan to help our employees plan for their future.
* **Employee Stock Purchase Plan**: arenaflex offers an employee stock purchase plan to allow our employees to purchase company stock at a discounted rate.
* **Paid Time Off (PTO)**: arenaflex provides paid time off to allow our employees to recharge and spend time with their loved ones.
* **Holidays**: arenaflex observes major holidays to allow our employees to celebrate with their families and friends.
* **Paid Parental Leave (PPL)**: arenaflex provides paid parental leave to support our employees in their parenting journey.
* **Transportation Benefit Plan**: arenaflex offers a transportation benefit plan to help our employees get to and from work.
* **Employee Store Discount**: arenaflex provides an employee store discount to allow our employees to purchase company products and services at a discounted rate.
* **Voluntary Life & Personal Accident Insurance**: arenaflex offers voluntary life and personal accident insurance to provide additional protection for our employees and their families.
**How to Apply**
If you are a motivated and experienced data scientist looking to join a dynamic team in the healthcare and retail industry, please apply to this exciting opportunity. arenaflex is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from diverse candidates.