Informatics Product Lead, RWD

Inovalon•Bowie, MD

8d•Onsite

About The Position

The Informatics Product Lead will serve as the primary Informatics partner to Product, Engineering, and Client Services teams for data-involved products, with initial emphasis on Inovalon’s de-identified data platform and RWD use cases. Reporting directly to the AVP, Informatics, this role is responsible for ensuring that data requirements, testing strategies, impact assessments, client escalations, and release sign-off processes incorporate a rigorous informatics lens without slowing product delivery.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in healthcare data, clinical informatics, data quality, analytics, or a related field with a Bachelor's degree required; or 5+ years of experience in healthcare data, clinical informatics, data quality, analytics, or a related field with a Master's degree required.
Strong working knowledge of claims, EHR, membership/enrollment, provider, clinical, and real-world data environments, including common data quality and interpretation challenges.
Proficiency in SQL for querying, analyzing, validating, and explaining large-scale healthcare datasets and client-reported data issues.
Demonstrated experience partnering with Product and Engineering teams in agile environments, including backlog review, requirements clarification, acceptance criteria, testing, release readiness, and operational escalation management.
Ability to synthesize complex data issues into clear written summaries, executive-ready recommendations, client-ready explanations, and actionable requirements for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Ability to manage multiple escalations, release reviews, stakeholder requests, and product workstreams in a fast-paced environment while maintaining clear prioritization and follow-through.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting RWD products, clinical analytics products, data quality programs, client-facing healthcare platforms, identity management workflows, or data governance operating models preferred.
Master's Degree in Medical Informatics, Health Informatics, Business Analytics, Healthcare Administration, or a related discipline preferred.
Relevant professional certifications, such as AHIC, CPHIMS, RHIA, CCS, CHDA, or equivalent experience, a plus.

Responsibilities

Serve as the Informatics lead for data platform and RWD product engagement, participating in data-involved design discussions, backlog grooming, requirements review, prioritization, testing strategy, and release readiness activities.
Act as the Informatics support for client-reported data concerns, partnering with Client Services, Product, and Engineering to clarify issues, assess severity, determine likely root cause, and route work to relevant teams as appropriate.
Coordinate Informatics review and sign-off for data-involved releases, including review of schema, logic, content, data quality evidence, impact analysis, and known risks within agreed-upon SLAs and escalation paths.
Define and execute informatics-informed test scenarios, acceptance criteria, regression checks, and impact assessments for clinical, membership, provider, source, and product logic changes.
Translate clinical, data, and operational concerns into clear requirements, testable acceptance criteria, and decision-ready summaries for Product, Engineering, DQ Engineering, and leadership stakeholders.
Review product logic, source integration decisions, data transformations, and clinical/business rules to identify risks related to quality, usability, interpretation, consistency, and client-facing deliverables.
Identify patterns in escalations and release reviews that should become reusable standards, test cases, documentation, data quality rules, or upstream product requirements.
Maintain compliance with Inovalon's policies, procedures and mission statement.
Adhere to all confidentiality and HIPAA requirements as outlined within Inovalon's Operating Policies and Procedures in all ways and at all times with respect to any aspect of the data handled or services rendered in the undertaking of the position.
Fulfill those responsibilities and/or duties that may be reasonably provided by Inovalon for the purpose of achieving operational and financial success of the Company.
Uphold responsibilities relative to the separation of duties for applicable processes and procedures within your job function.