Cybersecurity Data Scientist

100 Impact Advisors LLC; United States; Remote; USD 95,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25% travel to clients

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Impact Advisors is building a security product for health systems, with a founding role spanning feature development, modeling, evaluation, deployment, and operation. You will own the analytical layer end to end, from data ingestion to model output, across unstructured sources and production environments.

The role requires background in cyber security or adjacent domains (fraud, abuse, payments risk, insider risk) and heavy emphasis on building scalable analytics and clear communication of

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in engineering, mathematics, statistics or computer science.
• 5+ years applying data science to a security, fraud, abuse or risk domain, including models deployed to production.
• Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL, with experience at data volumes where tooling selection affects outcomes.
• Demonstrated anomaly detection experience: population baselining, peer group comparison, and data-derived thresholds.
• Ability to reason about base rates and alert volume, including deriving required precision from population size and alert capacity.
• Experience building data pipelines.
• Experience deploying and maintaining models in production, including versioning, monitoring and retraining.
• Hands‑on experience applying language models in production.
• Clear written and verbal communication of technical findings to non‑technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Profile unfamiliar data, assess what it supports, and establish baselines for users, roles, devices and systems.
• Develop detection and scoring approaches using methods such as clustering, classification, outlier detection and time series.
• Tune models against production data, reduce false positives without loss of coverage, and maintain performance as underlying systems change.
• Define evaluation criteria, measurement methods and drift detection.
• Build the data path supporting the models, from ingestion and normalization through to reliably computed features.
• Own deployment and ongoing operation of models in production.
• Develop visualizations that allow customer security leads to interpret and challenge model output.
• Select the appropriate model for each task across statistical, classical ML and language model approaches, and justify the selection.

Skills

Python

SQL

Anomaly detection

Data pipelines

ML in production

Language models

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, mathematics, statistics or computer science

Job description

About Us

Impact Advisors, LLC is a nationally recognized healthcare management consulting firm delivering Best in KLAS advisory, implementation, and optimization services. We are driven by a commitment to exceed client expectations and are proud to be a trusted partner to many of the nation's leading healthcare organizations. Our mission to drive patient-centered, value-driven outcomes has earned us prestigious industry accolades. To learn more about us, visit www.impact-advisors.com.

Job Overview

Impact Advisors is building a security product for health systems, and this is a founding role on it. The position requires behavioral modeling at scale: establishing baselines across large populations, detecting deviation, and delivering models that perform reliably in production within customer environments. Source data is varied and often not structured for security use, so the work spans raw data through to deployed models. The successful candidate will own the analytical layer end to end, including feature development, modeling, evaluation, deployment and ongoing operation. Candidates are expected to come from cyber security or an adjacent domain in which the same problem shape occurs, such as fraud, abuse, payments risk or insider risk.

Responsibilities

Modeling and analysis

• Profile unfamiliar data, assess what it supports, and establish baselines for users, roles, devices and systems
• Develop detection and scoring approaches using methods appropriate to the problem, including peer group comparison, clustering, classification, outlier detection and time series
• Tune models against production data, reduce false positives without loss of coverage, and maintain performance as underlying systems change
• Define evaluation criteria, measurement methods and drift detection

Data and delivery

• Build the data path supporting the models, from ingestion and normalization through to reliably computed features
• Own deployment and ongoing operation of models in production
• Develop visualizations that allow customer security leads to interpret and challenge model output

Applied AI

• Select the appropriate model for each task across statistical, classical machine learning and language model approaches, and justify the selection
• Apply small and local models where deployment constraints require them
• Use AI coding tools as part of standard development practice

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in engineering, mathematics, statistics or computer science
• 5+ years applying data science to a security, fraud, abuse or risk domain, including models deployed to production
• Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL, with experience at data volumes where tooling selection affects outcomes
• Demonstrated anomaly detection experience: population baselining, peer group comparison, and data-derived thresholds
• Ability to reason about base rates and alert volume, including deriving required precision from population size and alert capacity
• Experience building data pipelines
• Experience deploying and maintaining models in production, including versioning, monitoring and retraining
• Hands‑on experience applying language models in production
• Clear written and verbal communication of technical findings to non‑technical audiences

Additional Information

• 25% travel to clients
• The compensation for this role includes a salary range of $95,000-180,000.
• For salaried positions, this role may also be eligible for an annual performance bonus.
• Additional benefits and perks may also be available, depending on the position and employment terms.

People and Culture

At Impact Advisors, we are committed to transparency and equity in our compensation practices. The compensation for this role includes a salary range of $95,000-180,000. For salaried positions, this role may also be eligible for an annual performance bonus. Additional benefits and perks may also be available, depending on the position and employment terms. This range reflects consideration of several factors, including skills, experience, training, certifications, and organizational needs.

Our People and Culture – At Impact Advisors, we cultivate a caring, fun, honest, and autonomous work environment. Our success stems from our associates' dedication and a shared mission to create a “Positive Impact.” We embrace diversity and inclusion, fostering an environment where all employees feel valued and empowered. Join Impact Advisors and make a real difference in healthcare.

Impact Advisors is a healthcare management consulting firm committed to solving complex challenges and delivering transformational results for leading health systems. We create measurable value through strategic advisory, technology, and operational performance services — all while building a supportive, inclusive culture that values our team members, whom we proudly call Winners. Recognized as one of the Best Places to Work, we invest in professional development and champion diverse perspectives. If you're passionate about healthcare innovation and want to grow your career while making a meaningful impact, we invite you to join us.