CVS Health
This role focuses on activating CVS Health's clinical data repository to improve outcomes across multiple lines of business and use cases. It serves as a bridge between clinical data assets and the analysts, data scientists, and business partners who consume them, ensuring the data is accessible, well-documented, fit for purpose, and aligned with clinical and regulatory standards.
Key Responsibilities
- • Become a subject matter expert in clinical data, including CCD data, claims, pharmacy, lab results, and clinical documentation, with deep understanding of how to structure and apply this data to solve healthcare problems.
- • Helping build 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.
- • Develop 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.
- • 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.
- • Learn data governance practices, including compliance with HIPAA, data privacy regulations, and internal data stewardship policies.
- • Stay current with clinical data standards (HL7, FHIR, ICD-10, SNOMED-CT, LOINC, CPT, NDC, RxNorm) and industry best practices in clinical informatics.
Required
- • 2+ years of relevant experience in clinical informatics, healthcare analytics, or clinical data management.
- • Familiar with clinical data types and structures, including CCD data, lab results, clinical notes, and administrative healthcare data.
- • Knowledge of clinical coding systems and terminologies, such as ICD-10, CPT, HCPCS, SNOMED-CT, LOINC, NDC, and RxNorm.
- • Ability to support downstream data consumers (analysts, data scientists, business users) through documentation, training, and consultative support.
- • Proficiency with SQL and experience working with large-scale healthcare datasets.
- • Familiar using cloud-based data platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP) tools including BigQuery, for querying, transforming, and managing data.
- • Understanding of data quality principles, including validation, profiling, and monitoring of healthcare data.
- • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex clinical data concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- • Bachelor’s degree in health informatics, Public Health, Nursing, Health Information Management, Computer Science, Statistics, or a related quantitative or clinical field—or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience.
Preferred
- • Proven experience integrating clinical (CCD/OMOP/FHIR) and administrative (claims) data into unified, patient-centric data models, with deep understanding of the strengths, limitations, and complementary nature of each data type.
- • Experience with patient data normalization & standardization for patient attributes and cross source harmonization.
- • Hands-on experience reconciling clinical and claims data, including diagnosis alignment, medication reconciliation (prescribed vs. dispensed), and encounter/visit matching.
- • Experience integrating third-party and enrichment data sources, including SDOH indices (ADI, SVI), consumer/demographic data, mortality data, and provider reference data into patient-level datasets.
- • Expert knowledge of clinical and administrative coding systems, including ICD-10-CM/PCS, CPT/HCPCS, SNOMED-CT, RxNorm, NDC, LOINC, and NPI.
- • Experience with classification and grouping systems such as HCC, CCS, DRG, and therapeutic class hierarchies.
- • Experience designing patient-centric data models, feature stores, and dashboards that aggregate longitudinal data across sources, including demographics, encounters, conditions, medications, labs, utilization, cost, and enrichment attributes.
- • Proven ability to enable downstream data consumers through analytics and well-documented, validated, and reusable data assets, with experience creating data dictionaries, lineage documentation, and self-service analytics layers.
- • Understanding of healthcare business contexts such as care management, value-based care, quality measurement (HEDIS, Stars), and population health.
- • Master's degree or higher in Health Informatics, Biomedical Informatics, Clinical Informatics, Public Health, Epidemiology, or a related field is strongly preferred.
- • Clinical background (RN, PharmD, MD, or similar) with transition into informatics/analytics is highly valued.
Benefits & Perks
- • This full-time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of colleagues and their families.
- • The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.
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.
Position Summary
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. Join us as we embark on an exciting journey to drive a transformational shift in how CVS Health leverages clinical data and analytics to become the leader in consumer healthcare in the U.S.
As a Data Scientist - Clinical Informatics (Analytics Enablement), 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.
You will:
Become as a subject matter expert in clinical data, including CCD data, claims, pharmacy, lab results, and clinical documentation, with deep understanding of how to structure and apply this data to solve healthcare problems.
Helping build 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.
Develop 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.
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.
Learn data governance practices, including compliance with HIPAA, data privacy regulations, and internal data stewardship policies.
Stay current with clinical data standards (HL7, FHIR, ICD-10, SNOMED-CT, LOINC, CPT, NDC, RxNorm) and industry best practices in clinical informatics.
Required Qualifications
2+ years of relevant experience in clinical informatics, healthcare analytics, or clinical data management.
Familiar with clinical data types and structures, including CCD data, lab results, clinical notes, and administrative healthcare data.
Knowledge of clinical coding systems and terminologies, such as ICD-10, CPT, HCPCS, SNOMED-CT, LOINC, NDC, and RxNorm.
Ability to support downstream data consumers (analysts, data scientists, business users) through documentation, training, and consultative support.
Proficiency with SQL and experience working with large-scale healthcare datasets.
Familiar using cloud-based data platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP) tools including BigQuery, for querying, transforming, and managing data.
Understanding of data quality principles, including validation, profiling, and monitoring of healthcare data.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex clinical data concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
Proven experience integrating clinical (CCD/OMOP/FHIR) and administrative (claims) data into unified, patient-centric data models, with deep understanding of the strengths, limitations, and complementary nature of each data type.
Experience with patient data normalization & standardization for patient attributes and cross source harmonization.
Hands-on experience reconciling clinical and claims data, including diagnosis alignment, medication reconciliation (prescribed vs. dispensed), and encounter/visit matching.
Experience integrating third-party and enrichment data sources, including SDOH indices (ADI, SVI), consumer/demographic data, mortality data, and provider reference data into patient-level datasets.
Expert knowledge of clinical and administrative coding systems, including ICD-10-CM/PCS, CPT/HCPCS, SNOMED-CT, RxNorm, NDC, LOINC, and NPI.
Experience with classification and grouping systems such as HCC, CCS, DRG, and therapeutic class hierarchies.
Experience designing patient-centric data models, feature stores, and dashboards that aggregate longitudinal data across sources, including demographics, encounters, conditions, medications, labs, utilization, cost, and enrichment attributes
Proven ability to enable downstream data consumers through analytics and well-documented, validated, and reusable data assets, with experience creating data dictionaries, lineage documentation, and self-service analytics layers.
Understanding of healthcare business contexts such as care management, value-based care, quality measurement (HEDIS, Stars), and population health.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in health informatics, Public Health, Nursing, Health Information Management, Computer Science, Statistics, or a related quantitative or clinical field—or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience.
Master's degree or higher in Health Informatics, Biomedical Informatics, Clinical Informatics, Public Health, Epidemiology, or a related field is strongly preferred.
Clinical background (RN, PharmD, MD, or similar) with transition into informatics/analytics is highly valued.
Anticipated Weekly Hours
40Time Type
Full timePay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$79,310.00 - $158,620.00This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above.
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Great benefits for great people
We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.
Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
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