Manager I, Data Science

Summary

Join BlueLabs Civic Tech and play an instrumental role in improving government agencies' use of data to better serve residents. This Data Science Manager position focuses on the federal healthcare space, working with Medicare, Medicaid, and other agencies. You will conduct data analysis, develop data strategies, and create impactful visualizations. Collaborate with a team of analysts, data scientists, and engineers to deliver high-impact results. The role requires strong analytical skills, experience with SQL and Python, and the ability to communicate insights effectively. BlueLabs offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, including premier health insurance, 401k matching, unlimited vacation, and more.

Requirements

• 3+ years of applied experience working with structured/unstructured data
• An undergraduate degree or higher in a quantitative field or equivalent technical training
• Strong understanding of how to manipulate data using SQL and Python, and working within cloud-based analytics systems (e.g. Snowflake and DBT)
• Experience in and ability to apply your knowledge of foundations of statistics and modeling (distributions, parameter estimation, confidence intervals and tests, logistic regression and significance testing, etc.)
• Proficiency creating and testing data transformation processes, and automating repeatable tasks
• An interest in data investigation, solving puzzles, finding patterns in complex data, and proposing solutions that improve both client understanding and end user satisfaction
• Experience going from insight to impact: using the results of your analysis to tell an informative and engaging story through visualization, presentation, and writing for technical and non-technical audiences
• Comfortable working independently to drive portions of larger projects, developing solutions and guiding analyses from conception through to conclusion that blend data-driven decision-making with thoughtful understanding of human-centered design/processes
• Experience working in an agile work environment and a strong grasp of version control (i.e. git)
• Ability to extend your expertise to guide more junior analysts by reviewing work for quality and alignment with business requirements, helping to organize raw analysis into consumable stories and recommendations, adding context, and refining ideation and solutioning in the team’s work
• Passion in applying your skills to our social mission to problem-solve and collaborate within a cross-functional, client-facing team environment
• The ability to successfully attain and maintain a Federal Public Trust background investigation that our government clients require; this includes a requirement that the individual has U.S. Citizenship, or U.S. residency for three of the past five years (minimum 36 of the past 60 months)

Responsibilities

• Conduct and take ownership of data analysis from disparate data sources to distill human-centered operations and processes into meaningful insights, as well as contribute to the design, implementation, and delivery of analytics products and services
• Devise data analysis and data management strategies to create systematic methods of measuring performance across complex systems and technical implementations
• Critically evaluate analytical processes, tools, and deliverables, and offer informed opinions on solutions that improve the quality of the team’s work
• Develop KPIs and metrics, build predictive models and tools, and develop compelling visualizations to allow clients to easily understand challenges and take a clear action
• Check, clean and transform incoming data for data pipelines, and help others to do the same
• Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, program managers and external stakeholders to troubleshoot problems, support the development of project plans, and proactively create solutions
• Strive to support team excellence by developing high quality documentation
• Take ownership of task areas and strive to independently resolve challenges, and guide more junior analysts to do the same in order to deliver accurate products on short deadlines
• Other duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with healthcare beneficiary and claims data, especially federal healthcare systems such as Medicare, Medicaid, Marketplace, or Veterans Affairs
• Experience evaluating and improving the effectiveness of large-scale directly addressable outreach campaigns (email, SMS, autodial, etc.)
• Experience improving the ways beneficiaries interact with information about their healthcare coverage, constituent beneficiary identification and communication, and database maintenance and development
• Experience with SQL in a Redshift environment is a plus
• Experience with Quicksight, Tableau, and Adobe Analytics is a plus

Benefits

• Salary: $85,000
• Premier health insurance plan
• 401K matching
• Unlimited vacation leave
• Paid sick, personal, and volunteer leave
• 13 paid holidays
• 15 weeks paid parental leave
• Professional development stipend & tuition reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Supportive & collaborative culture
• Flexible working hours
• Remote friendly (within the U.S.)