Remote Senior Data Scientist

Summary

The Senior Data Scientist will be responsible for developing and implementing predictive modeling algorithms to solve complex business problems in the healthcare sector. Key responsibilities include designing projects, processing data-streams, recommending model scoring, creating visualizations, providing insights, collaborating with business partners, and mentoring Data Scientists.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Machine Learning, Econometrics, Physics, Biostatistics, or related Quantitative disciplines and 5+ years experience in predictive analytics or equivalent field
• Masters degree in related field and 3+ years experience in predictive analytics or equivalent field
• Advanced expertise with software such as Python, R, SAS, SAS Enterprise Miner (or equivalent)
• Excellent coding skills in Python, SQL, and Bigdata technologies
• Experience leading end-to-end data science project implementation
• Experience managing a small team either through formal or informal reporting relationship

Responsibilities

• Design and lead predictive modeling projects to address more complex business problems determined by consultation with business partners
• Piping and processing massive data-streams in distributed computing environments (e.g Hadoop) to facilitate analysis
• Recommends appropriate batch and real-time model scoring to drive actions
• Provides oversight in development of proprietary algorithms to build customized solutions that go beyond standard industry tools and lead to innovative solutions
• Develop advanced visualization of analysis output for business users
• Publish results and address constraints/limitations with business partners
• Provides actionable insights to output produced to ensure established targets are met
• Determines the continuous improvement opportunities of current predictive modeling algorithms
• Proactively collaborates with business partners to determine identified population segments and develop actionable plans to enable the identification of patterns related to quality, use, cost, and other variables
• Lead and mentor Data Scientists

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with developing recommendation engines is preferred
• Experience working in a Healthcare organization or with healthcare data preferred