[Hiring] Senior Data Scientist @Health Care Service Corporation

Role Description

This position is responsible for providing advanced mathematical and statistical methods to solve complex business problems with minimal direction while supporting the analytics strategy for HCSC’s Medicare Stars program.

• Collect, integrate, and analyze data from healthcare claims, clinical outcomes, quality measures, provider performance, member outcomes, and internal business processes to identify opportunities to improve Medicare Star Ratings.
• Perform complex statistical analysis to validate and quantify trends.
• Adapt machine learning, predictive modeling, and probabilistic methods to develop predictive algorithms.
• Verify model effectiveness based on real-world results.
• Design experiments and methodologies, create visualizations and analytical applications.
• Translate findings into actionable recommendations that support critical business decisions, program enhancements, and new quality improvement initiatives.
• Work closely with clinical, pharmacy, customer experience, product, and operations teams.
• Represent the data science perspective on cross-functional teams and contribute to consequential decisions.
• Help drive innovative solutions that improve member outcomes, Stars performance, affordability, and enterprise value.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 3 years of work experience in a mathematical, statistical, computer science, engineering, physics, economics or related quantitative field; OR Actuarial credential; OR Master’s degree and 2 years of work experience in a mathematical, statistical, computer science, engineering, physics, economics or related quantitative field; OR Ph.D. in a mathematical, statistical, computer science, engineering, physics, economics or related quantitative field; OR 7 years experience in a mathematical, statistical, computer science, engineering, physics, economics or related quantitative field.
• Strong learning and growth mindset.
• Customer focus.
• Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficiency in at least four of the following six areas:
  • Data analysis and relational-style query languages.
  • Machine learning and/or statistical modeling.
  • Data visualization.
  • A high-level programming language.
  • Distributed computing.
  • Understanding of healthcare.

Requirements

• Master's or Ph.D. in a quantitative field, or bachelor's degree with significant healthcare experience.
• Experience with diverse healthcare data preferred, including claims, EHR, demographic, pharmacy, lab, biometrics, genomics, and text.
• Experience with statistical software programs such as SAS, Dataiku, R and/or Python is required.
• Statistical and/or data mining experience in propensity score modeling, multivariate regression, machine learning.
• Comprehension of healthcare data (e.g., claims, utilization, provider information) and demonstrated understanding of health care and delivery system processes.

Benefits

• Health and wellness benefits.
• 401(k) savings plan.
• Pension plan.
• Paid time off.
• Paid parental leave.
• Disability insurance.
• Supplemental life insurance.
• Employee assistance program.
• Paid holidays.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Other incentives.

Company Description

At Health Care Service Corporation, you will be part of an organization committed to offering meaningful benefits to our employees to support their life outside of work.