[Hiring] Assistant Vice President, Health Analytics Data Scientist @Aon Corporation

Role Description

Aon is looking for an Assistant Vice President, Health Analytics Data Scientist. Chicago, IL; Atlanta, GA; Denver, CO; Seattle, WA are preferable locations but open to other Aon locations or possibly remote for the right fit.

We are seeking a hands-on, statistically grounded health data scientist, health actuary, or medical economics expert to work on cost-of-care measurement, causal inference, and predictive modeling workstreams and development of Aon analytics capabilities.

• Own the design, validation, documentation, and delivery of statistical and machine learning/predictive modeling algorithms and analyses.
• Help employers and their partners understand cost, risk, and the impact of health programs.
• Work on total-cost-of-care predictive modeling and causal evaluations of programs and vendors using matched cohort trial emulation, difference-in-differences, and risk adjustment.
• Evolve capabilities and model performance, review code and models, document and present results to clients and senior leaders.
• Take models from development into governed, monitored production, working closely with actuaries, consultants, clinical and innovation specialists, Aon Business Solutions/Technology (ABS), technology architects, and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience including commercial health insurance and/or health benefits consulting.
• Strong foundation in applied statistics and causal inference.
• Track record of building and deploying tabular predictive models on large medical and pharmacy claims datasets.
• Ability to document methods rigorously and present results clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Practical experience with MLOps and model governance.
• Experience partnering with enterprise technology and distributed engineering teams.

Requirements

• Develop and deliver causal inference and predictive modeling workstreams for the US Health Analytics practice.
• Collaborate closely with Aon Business Solutions/Technology (ABS), cloud architects, and offshore engineering and data science teams.
• Design, build, and tune tabular analyses and predictive models.
• Design and execute medical economics and causal inference studies.
• Document methods, assumptions, data definitions, and results thoroughly.
• Ensure MLOps and model governance end-to-end.
• Serve as senior technical, code, and methodology reviewer for analytics deliverables.
• Partner with senior leaders across Aon’s health actuarial, consulting, clinical, innovation, and specialty practice areas.
• Mentor and coach data scientists, and lead multiple projects.

Benefits

• Comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and regular part-time colleagues.
• 401(k) savings plan with employer contributions.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Paid time off, including 12 paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
• 15 days of paid vacation per year.
• Paid sick leave as provided under state and local paid sick leave laws.
• Short-term disability and optional long-term disability.
• Health savings account, health care and dependent care reimbursement accounts.
• Employee and dependent life insurance and supplemental life and AD&D insurance.
• Optional personal insurance policies, adoption assistance, tuition assistance, commuter benefits, and an employee assistance program.