Senior Engineer, Analytics (SAS)

Arcadia is dedicated to happier, healthier days for all. We transform diverse data into a unified fabric for health. Our platform delivers actionable insights for our customers to advance care and research, drive strategic growth, and achieve financial success. For more information, visit arcadia.io.

Why This Role Is Important to Arcadia

The Senior Engineer will join the Analytics team of a high-growth Population Health and Analytics software company. This role reports to the Manager of SAS Engineering, and will involve creation of high value analytics for Arcadia customers.

The ideal candidate loves processing data in SAS and wants to make a difference.  We are seeking individuals who rely on data analysis to make decisions and are passionate about improving the way healthcare is delivered to millions of patients across the country. You should be eager to share SAS expertise to help Arcadia’s Analytics team build, optimize, and productionalize reoccurring analytics that fuel Arcadias Analytics Products

What Success Looks Like

In 3 months

- Gain familiarity with Arcadias SAS Common Claims model

- Work on our Commercial Claims Dataset to understand flow of data and organization structure

In 6 months

- Onboard onto CMS VRDC and understand workflows

- Work with other SAS engineers to understand and apply standard utility functions to optimize code

In 12 months

- Serve as an expert in terms of optimizing VRDC Code including understanding library structure, parallelization, environment restrictions and analytic subject matter

- Manage pipeline integration from analytic prototyping to productionalization and be able to provide guidance to analytics on best coding practices

• Work closely with Analysts and SAS Engineers to maintain a robust pipeline
• Work with Analytics to optimize and structure code for ideal quarterly reporting
• Maintain quarterly refreshes of productionalized data
• Make suggestions for new utilities and SOPs that allow team to operate efficiently with as little rework as possible

• Degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Public Health, or related fields  
• 4+ Years SAS Programming, ideally with some experience in Healthcare Claims Data
• Extensive experience in SAS functionality -- Including data steps, macros, parallel processing, code optimization, and proc sql
• Ability to identify data issues and evaluate impact. Understanding of analytics and data manipulation

• Experience with health care codes like ICD9, ICD10, CPT, HCPCS, DRG etc 
• Working knowledge of database principles, processes, technologies and tools 
• Effective written and verbal communication skills 
• Passion for working with large quantities of data and extracting meaningful insights from databases. 

• Analyze large and diverse data sets on Arcadia’s custom data model built by analysts for analysts
• Create value add IP and quickly distribute it to wide array of Arcadia customers
• Ideate with the best minds in healthcare through our advisory network
• Support a wide variety of customers in the healthcare space – all focused on pulling healthcare tech into modernity
• A collaborative team with decades of collective experience in population health, product development, and data science
• A supportive and remote-work friendly company that provides frequent opportunities for fun and connection, as well as personal and professional development
• Be a part of a mission driven company that is transforming the healthcare industry by changing the way patients receive care
• A flexible, remote friendly company with personality and heart
• Employee driven programs and initiatives for personal and professional development
• Great benefits like flextime time off
• Be a member of the Arcadian and Barkadian Community
• Competitive compensation and amazing benefits including FTO (~22 day company average)

About Arcadia

Arcadia.io helps innovative providers and payers across the country transform healthcare to reduce cost while improving patient health. We do this by aggregating large amounts of disparate data, applying algorithms to identify opportunities to provide better patient care, and making those opportunities actionable by physicians at the point of care in near-real time. We are passionate about helping our customers drive meaningful outcomes. We are growing fast and have emerged as a market leader in the highly competitive population health management software market and have been recognized by industry analysts KLAS, IDC, Forrester, and Chilmark for our leadership. For a better sense of our brand and products, please explore our website.

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