Data Scientist

We are recruiting for a motivated Data Scientist to join our team!

We are here for life’s journey.
Where is your life journey taking you?
Being the heartbeat of Denver means our heart reflects something bigger than ourselves, something that connects us all:
Humanity in action, Triumph in hardship, Transformation in health.

Department

Public Health Administration

Job Summary
Under minimal supervision, the Data Scientist is responsible for development, implementation, and evaluation of multiple projects simultaneously. This includes gathering business requirements, extracting data, conducting statistical analyses, creating reports and visualizations, and developing system solutions. The Data Scientist readily displays the ability to diagnose issues, identify appropriate resources and escalations, and propose creative solutions to complex problems.

Under general direction, the Data Scientist is an Epic certified or proficient individual, who is responsible for the support, analysis, design, build, configuration, implementation, and workflow documentation of the assigned Epic application or third-party software, in alignment with organization's policies, procedures, and business operations.
Essential Functions:

• Project Planning: Meets with stakeholders to identify business requirements, expected outcomes, and pertinent data sources. Collaborates with information technology teams, stakeholders, and subject matter experts to locate, evaluate, integrate, and validate new and existing data sources. Documents business requirements, data requirements, data sources, and programming logic pertaining to data requests. Conducts literature reviews.

  (20%)

• Project Management: Manages projects as a lead or supporting team member. Periodically reviews processes, coding, and requirements for opportunities for improvement and automation. (10%)
• Data Management, Modeling and Analysis: Queries databases. Designs database structures and data models to facilitate the acquisition, management, integration, and reporting of data and information using industry standards and guidelines. Compares models using statistical performance metrics. Creates and utilizes programs or tools to ensure data accuracy and integrity. Analyzes data using statistical software. (40%)
• Reporting: Creates graphs, charts, or other visualizations to convey the results of data analysis. Makes formal and informal presentations to leadership and end users both orally and in writing. (30%)

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Health Informatics, Computer Science, Health Services Research, Public Health, Mathematics, Science, or closely related field Required

Work Experience:

• 1-3 years of professional experience working with relational databases, summarizing data, and reporting meaningful results to end users. Prior experience with health relational databases is required. Required

Licenses:

• CABOODLE-EPIC Cogito Data Warehouse - DHHA - Denver Health and Hospital Authority Required

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Demonstrates data literacy with strong analytical and problem-solving skills; the ability to prepare and transform raw data to deliver insights.
• Ability to adapt and excel in an evolving technical environment; identifies and validates the appropriate technological solutions for various reporting needs.
• Demonstrates strong ability to identify, analyze, and solve problems. Can use analytical reasoning to determine root causes, define the problem, generate solutions, and implement the best option.
• Communicates in a way that builds relationships and fosters collaborative work. Tailors the mode and content of communication to both technical and non-technical colleagues in and outside of the organization.
• Displays high level of initiative, including the ability and willingness to take ownership of work, recognize assignments or tasks that need to be completed, seek out additional assignments or tasks, and help others.
• Business analysis skills to identify data solutions by interviewing business users, analyzing processes/operations, establishing solution objectives, prototyping solution, and preparing specifications.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Intermediate SQL skills or equivalent computer language skills and strong understanding of dimensional and relational database concepts, including primary keys, foreign keys, and joins.
• Ability to research and troubleshoot reporting content functionality to ensure data is accurate and daily processing has been completed.
• Proficiency and demonstrated experience with report writing and data visualization tools, such as Excel, Tableau, or Microsoft SSRS

Shift

Days (United States of America)

Work Type

Regular

Salary

$71,668.00 - $107,502.00 / yr

Benefits

• Outstanding benefits including up to 27 paid days off per year, immediate retirement plan employer contribution up to 9.5%, and generous medical plans

• Free RTD EcoPass (public transportation)

• On-site employee fitness center and wellness classes

• Childcare discount programs & exclusive perks on large brands, travel, and more

• Tuition reimbursement & assistance

• Education & development opportunities including career pathways and coaching

• Professional clinical advancement program & shared governance

• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligible employer+ free student loan coaching and assistance navigating the PSLF program 

• National Health Service Corps (NHCS) and Colorado Health Service Corps (CHSC) eligible employer

Our Values

• Respect

• Belonging

• Accountability

• Transparency

All job applicants for safety-sensitive positions must pass a pre-employment drug test, once a conditional offer of employment has been made.
Denver Health is an integrated, high-quality academic health care system considered a model for the nation that includes a Level I Trauma Center, a 555-bed acute care medical center, Denver’s 911 emergency medical response system, 10 family health centers, 19 school-based health centers, Rocky Mountain Poison & Drug Safety, a Public Health Institute, an HMO and The Denver Health Foundation.
As Colorado’s primary, and essential, safety-net institution, Denver Health is a mission-driven organization that has provided billions in uncompensated care for the uninsured. Denver Health is viewed as an Anchor Institution for the community, focusing on hiring and purchasing locally as applicable, serving as a pillar for community needs, and caring for more than 185,000 individuals and 67,000 children a year.
Located near downtown Denver, Denver Health is just minutes away from many of the cultural and recreational activities Denver has to offer.
Denver Health is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). We value the unique ideas, talents and contributions reflective of the needs of our community.

Applicants will be considered until the position is filled.