Description
About Norstella:
Norstella is a premier and critical global life sciences data and AI solutions provider dedicated to improving patient access to life-saving therapies. Norstella supports pharmaceutical and biotech companies across the full drug development lifecycle from pipeline to patient. Our mission is simple: to help our clients bring therapies to market faster and more efficiently, ultimately impacting patient lives.
Norstella unites market-leading brands - Citeline, Evaluate, MMIT, Panalgo, Skipta and The Dedham Group and delivers must-have answers and insights, leveraging AI, for critical strategic, clinical, and commercial decision-making. We help our clients:
- Accelerate the drug development cycle
- Assess competition and bring the right drugs to market
- Make data driven commercial and financial decisions
- Match and recruit patients for clinical trials
- Identify and address barriers to therapies
Norstella serves most pharmaceutical and biotech companies around the world, along with regulators like the FDA, and payers. By providing critical proprietary data supporting AI-driven workflows, Norstella helps clients make decisions faster and with greater confidence. Norstella's investments in AI are transforming how data is consumed and decisions are made, disrupting inefficient legacy workflows and helping the industry become more efficient, innovative, and responsive to patient needs.
Job Description
For the Data Quality Control Specialist (Healthcare Data) weare seeking a detail-oriented and collaborative Data Quality Control Specialist to join our Real-World Data (RWD) team. This role is responsible for ensuring the quality and integrity of data assets and deliverables by conducting routine data quality and characterization reviews, developing new data quality checks to investigate data fitness for purpose, leading data schema change impact assessments, and cultivating strong relationships with data vendors. As a key contributor to the RWD function, this role works cross-functionally to detect and resolve data issues to ensure product reliability and client trust.
Responsibilities
- Conduct data quality validations and root cause investigations using SQL, dashboards, and data analysis tools.
- Perform impact assessments for data vendor updates or structural changes and communicate downstream implications to relevant teams.
- Develop and enhance proactive quality checks and data validation frameworks to detect anomalies before delivery.
- Collaborate directly with data vendors to verify incoming data integrity and resolve issues at the source.
- Work closely with data engineering, analytics, and client-facing teams to triage and resolve internal and client-reported data concerns.
- Support the reliability and accuracy of our LinQ asset by documenting, tracking, and managing resolution of identified data issues.
- Translate technical data findings into clear summaries for technical and non technical stakeholders.
- Stay current with best practices in data quality management, healthcare data standards, and regulatory compliance.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Public Health, Biostatistics, or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience working with healthcare data and large datasets in a quality control or analytics role.
- Strong SQL skills and familiarity with relational databases and data pipelines.
- Working knowledge of real-world data types such as EMR, claims, and lab data.
- Ability to manage tasks independently while contributing to a collaborative team environment.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a keen attention to detail.
Preferred Qualifications
- Understanding of healthcare data privacy and regulatory standards (e.g., HIPAA).
- Experience with Redshift or similar cloud-based database systems.
- Familiarity with scripting or data analysis languages such as Python or R.
- Knowledge of workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow.
Location: Remote India
Our Guiding Principles For Success At Norstella
01: Bold, Passionate, and Mission-First
02: Integrity, Truth, and Reality
03: Kindness, Empathy, and Grace
04: Resilience, Mettle, and Perseverance
05: Humility, Gratitude, and Learning
Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Provident Fund
- Reimbursement of Certification Expenses
- Gratuity
- 24x7 Health Desk
Norstella is an equal opportunity employer. All job applicants will receive equal treatment regardless of race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability or handicap, medical condition, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), marital or domestic partner status, military or veteran status, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, reproductive health decision making, or any other protected characteristic as established by federal, state, or local law.
Sometimes the best opportunities are hidden by self-doubt. We disqualify ourselves before we have the opportunity to be considered. Regardless of where you came from, how you identify, or the path that led you here- you are welcome. If you read this job description and feel passion and excitement, we're just as excited about you.
All legitimate roles with Norstella will be posted on Norstella's job board which is located at norstella.com/careers. If a role is not posted on this job board, a candidate should assume the role is not a legitimate role with Norstella. Norstella is not responsible for an application that may be submitted by or through a third-party and candidates should proceed with extreme caution if a third-party approaches them about an open role with Norstella. Norstella will never ask for anything of value or any type of payment during or as part of any recruitment, interview, or pre-hire onboarding process. If you are aware of or have reason to believe a job posting purportedly for a role with Norstella is fraudulent or otherwise not authorized by Norstella, please contact the Company using the following email address: [Confidential Information]. 
