Senior Health Data Informaticist

About the role

Senior Health Data Informaticist responsible for designing, managing, and maintaining reference data assets in the Terminology Reference Library, ensuring high‑quality, standardized healthcare data for Veeva’s Compass products.

Key responsibilities

• Curate, standardize, and validate medical and pharmacy claims data across Compass products.
• Map drugs to indications and therapeutic areas using coding standards such as ICD‑10, CPT/HCPCS, NDC, RxNorm, and ATC.
• Design, maintain, and document hierarchical structures, taxonomies, and vocabularies.
• Develop business rules, validation routines, and clinical logic to support reliable analytics.
• Lead data integration and modeling efforts applying healthcare data standards.
• Troubleshoot complex data issues while ensuring HIPAA compliance.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Health Informatics, Biomedical Informatics, Pharmacy, Life Sciences, Public Health, or related field.
• 5+ years of hands‑on experience with healthcare data systems, clinical vocabularies, and payer data.
• Deep expertise in drug classification and coding systems (NDC, RxNorm, ATC).
• Advanced knowledge of diagnostic and procedural code sets (ICD‑10‑CM, ICD‑10‑PCS, CPT, HCPCS).
• Strong SQL skills and experience with data modeling on large healthcare datasets.

Required skills

• SQL
• Data modeling
• Hierarchical taxonomy design
• Python
• R
• SAS
• Apelon terminology tools
• SNOMED CT browsers
• OHDSI/OMOP
• Collibra or Informatica data‑governance platforms

What we offer

• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance.
• Flexible PTO and company‑paid holidays.
• Retirement programs.
• 1% charitable giving program.
• Base salary range $80,000 – $115,000 plus potential bonus or stock awards.