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Position Summary

Career Interest : As a Data Scientist, you will discover and solve real world problems by analyzing clinical, operational, and financial data, defining new metrics and use cases, designing experiments, and creating models. All of this will be done as a part of the centralized Analytics and Business Intelligence department while collaborating with various stakeholders throughout the health system. This role explores and analyzes information to gain maximum insight that can give the organization a competitive advantage. The data scientist will need to be become a subject matter expert for the domains they support and the underlying data, including metadata and recommending ways to improve data quality. Further, the Data Scientist will be responsible for pioneering new methodologies, defining and improving performance metrics and evaluation, and will generally lead innovation efforts on the Data Science team.

Successful candidates should have strong statistics background, programming skills, and understanding of the industry and how it operates. Critical thinking and problem-solving skills are essential for interpreting data, with good communication skills to deliver the findings. Candidates should be comfortable operating in a dynamic environment with ability to balance multiple priorities and competing deadlines. Lastly, the Data Scientist should have an entrepreneurial spirit, always asking "how can we do this better", to drive outcomes for patients as well as for the Health System as a whole.

Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions

• Participate in all aspects of the project lifecycle from requirement gathering, hypothesis generation, data extraction and transformation, programming, testing, delivery of recommendations, implementation, and ongoing monitoring.
• Perform diagnostic analysis to drill down to the root-cause and isolate confounding information that creates a more complete understanding of current performance and informs ways to improve it.
• Develop robust models, using iterative model development process, based on statistical approaches and data mining techniques to provide insights and recommendations based on complex data sets that support and guide evidence-based practices.
• Formulate, train, and validate predictive models and algorithms to solve a diverse set of problems by incorporating latest research findings.
• Identify the most optimal modeling technique based on available data types and objectives / use cases (supervised, unsupervised, semi-supervised, or reinforcement learning).
• Implement efficient automated processes that produce modeling results at scale.
• Present stories told by data, that are actionable, in a visually appealing and easy to understand manner, to various levels of operations within the health system, including the executive team.
• Review tasks critically and ensure they are appropriately prioritized and sized for incremental delivery.
• Anticipate and communicate request and project roadblocks and delays before they require escalation.
• Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
• These statements are intended to describe the essential functions of the job and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities. Skills and duties may vary dependent upon your department or unit. Other duties may be assigned as required.

Required Education and Experience

Preferred Education and Experience

Required Licensure and Certification

Preferred Licensure and Certification

Time Type : Job Requisition ID :

R-44820