Waymark
Healthcare
PrincipalDataScientist,HealthInformatics
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“Principal Data Scientist, Health Informatics at Waymark. Skills: Clinical data, Applied ML/AI, Health economics. Define standards for clinical data. Structure clinical data”
What You'll Achieve.
Drive better care; Translate clinical data into predictions; Translate clinical data into outcomes evidence
Industry & Context.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Master's degree in Data Science, Biostatistics, Health Informatics, Computer Science, or a related field, 7-8+ years of hands-on experience in Python, Healthcare Data Expertise, Standards Fluency
Nice to Have
PhD in health informatics, statistics, data science, or computer science, Experience integrating EHR/HIE data via TEFCA, CommonWell, or comparable networks, Health Economics & Outcomes Methods experience, Prior experience building on Medicaid or dual-eligible populations, Peer-reviewed publications in healthcare ML, AI, biostatistics, or health economics
What You'll Do.
Define standards for clinical data
Structure clinical data
Normalize clinical data
Validate clinical data
Build production ML/AI models
Validate production ML/AI models
Deploy production ML/AI models
Translate data into evidence
Advance machine and AI products
Set standards for team
Mentor junior data scientists
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Data science stakeholders; Engineering stakeholders; Product stakeholders; Clinical stakeholders
Process & Methodology
Project ownership
Full Job Description
Principal Data Scientist, Health Informatics Waymark is a team of healthcare providers, technologists, and builders whose mission is to bring the best healthcare to people with Medicaid benefits. Guided by the communities we serve, we bring support and technology-enabled care to help primary care providers keep Medicaid patients healthy. We are building the tools and designing an approach to enable care to reach the patients who can benefit most. Our core values embody the essence of what makes Waymark a unique team today, and what we look for, nurture, and sustain as a team. We are bold builders, believing that the greatest challenges in care delivery can be solved when we harness the power of community and technology. We are humble learners, seeking feedback and perspectives different from our own, and welcome challenges to our conclusions. We experiment to improve, actively seeking data to inform decisions and assess our own performance. We act with focused urgency, our commitment to our mission drives us to tirelessly pursue results. About This Role Waymark is seeking a Principal Data Scientist to own clinical data as a first-class input to modeling and to bring senior ML/AI and health economics judgment to our core data science products. As Waymark scales across health plan and health system partners, clinical data quality directly determines model accuracy. We need a senior owner accountable for data quality, normalization, and clinical validity across claims, EHR, and ADT. This role sits at the intersection of clinical data expertise, applied ML/AI, and health economics methods. You will own the clinical data strategy that enables our modeling, defining how EHR and ADT data, across formats including FHIR, HL7v2, and C-CDA, should be structured, normalized, and validated as modeling inputs, with hands-on fluency in how these systems are structured and what the data actually represents clinically. You will build and ship production models that advance our exist
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