ncqa is searching for a talented data analyst the data scientist will take a leadership role in analyzing and presenting results based on large health care databases such as hedis clinical quality data and cahps hos member survey data and field test data major responsibilities include understanding content area determining what the data means defining analysis plans and selecting appropriate statistical methods conducting quantitative analysis programming in sas r or other programming languages ensuring an effective quality analysis plan and communication with internal and external clients the data scientist is expected to spot patterns in the underlying data and be able to explain the trends to nontechnical stakeholders if this sounds like a team you want to be a part of keep reading this person serves as the technical lead on the technical design development and statistical methodology determination develops and enforces technical processes and standards produces software development lifecycle documentation and troubleshoots technical issues related to programming code execution maintains current industry knowledge on the trends of technology as related to the architecting and programming the holder of this position must be able to work independently on multiple projects in coordination with other internal and external project team members our work at ncqa saves thousands of lives helps millions of people stay healthy and saves the country billions of dollars responsibilities support the development of ncqas research and performance measurement activities by generating research ideas investigating the data and developing data design and data structures related to the project looks at the data from different angles determine what the data means and recommends the best possible way to analyze it spots trends and patterns and determine what is noise and what is good data develops analytical plans for research and other projects including algorithm selection data mining machine learning etc database design program design selection of statistical methods creation of project timelines and development of formats for presenting results to meet customer needs this includes the preparation of memos and close out reports to contribute to knowledge management and documentation conducts programming tasks and statistical analysis including preparation and cleaning of data implementation and refinement of statistical methods preparation of formatted tables of results creation of databases and other outputs and verification of the accuracy of results participate in quality assurance processes and reviews code outputs tables and charts complete all documentation and follow department standardized processes leads designs plans and executes programming approaches to support various development projects can code at an expert level in applications such as sas r python etc customer engagement and project leadership represent ncqa to scientific audiences enhance ncqa reputation for scientific leadership in the area of performance measurement through public speaking publications etc present analytic results orally and in writing to customers and other researchers incorporating descriptions of methods relevant literature and other background material to provide context for the results develop content expertise and provide analytic support for ncqa programs and high priority strategic projects such as