Data Scientist or Senior Data Scientist

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Job Summary:

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is committed to transforming healthcare and is seeking a Data Scientist or Senior Data Scientist. This role involves using advanced analytics and data science to identify opportunities, manage complex data, and influence strategic decision-making within the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Take lead on data science projects to design and implement models and experiments from end to end, including data ingestion and preparation, feature engineering, analysis and modeling, model deployment, performance tracking and documentation.

• Work with business partners to convert ambiguous business problems in clear data science/ML specifications. Use contextual business acumen to convert model predictions/results into impactful insights and provide actionable guidance on risks and limitations.

• Drive conversations with product managers, data engineers, and subject matter experts to ship new models, algorithms and improvements continuously and collaboratively into production.

• Use combination of machine learning knowledge and contextual business acumen to convert results into impactful insights and provide actionable guidance on risks and limitations of model.

• Write narrative documents for model specification and performance analysis to communicate findings and recommendations to teammates, stakeholders and executive leadership.

• For the Senior Data Scientist level: Lead-by-example junior data scientists around mature data science practices e.g., readable code, thorough documentation, comprehensive experimentation.

Qualifications:

Required:

• For the Senior Data Scientist level: 5+ years of related professional experience. All relevant experience including work, education, transferable skills, and military experience will be considered.

• For the Data Scientist level: 3+ years of related professional experience. All relevant experience including work, education, transferable skills, and military experience will be considered.

• Hands-on experience in analytics and data science (specific areas of interest include classification/regression, unsupervised learning, time-series/sequence models, NLP, explainability methods, deep learning).

• Solid demonstrable proficiency in data science tools such as Python, R, Spark, SQL.

• Experience implementing predictive algorithms and associated statistical analysis/inference in a data science/ML workflow manipulating both structured and unstructured data.

• Experience crafting and communicating highly technical results to a diverse audience.

• Comfortable working as part of a team and taking the lead.

• High school diploma (or equivalency) and legal authorization to work in the U.S.

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree.

• Experience with health care data.

• Experience with AWS tools.

• Experience with version control (for example Git Version Control system).

Company:

About Blue Cross Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is a taxable, nonprofit organization with a mission to make a healthy difference in people’s lives. Founded in 1933, the company is headquartered in Eagan, Minnesota, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.