Data Scientist I

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey; United States; Remote; USD 86,000 - 118,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in health solutions is seeking a Data Scientist to work on modeling business problems and providing insights through statistical analysis. The role requires a Master's degree in a relevant field and experience with programming languages such as Python or R. With responsibilities spanning data integration and stakeholder communication, this position offers an opportunity to significantly impact health care quality.

Benefits

Comprehensive health benefits (Medical/Dental/Vision)

Retirement Plans

Generous PTO

Incentive Plans

Wellness Programs

Paid Volunteer Time Off

Tuition Reimbursement

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of data science experience required.
• Experience in ETL processes and data cleansing.
• Strong programming skills in Python or R.

Responsibilities

• Model complex business problems and provide insights.
• Integrate and prepare large datasets and build databases.
• Communicate research findings to stakeholders.

Skills

Data modeling

Statistical analysis

Data visualization

Programming in Python/R

Machine learning

Communication skills

Education

Master's Degree in Data Science, Data Analytics or Computer Science

Bachelor's Degree in equivalent fields

Tools

Statistical packages (R, Python)

Big data frameworks (Hadoop, Spark)

Job description

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey empowers our members to achieve their best health. For over 90 years, we have been New Jersey’s health solutions leader driving innovations that improve health care quality, affordability, and member experience. Our members are our neighbors, our friends, and our families. It is this understanding that drives us to better serve and care for the 3.5 million people who place their trust in us. We pride ourselves on our best-in-class employees and strive to maintain an innovative and inclusive environment that allows them to thrive. When our employees bring their best and succeed, the Company succeeds.

Data Scientists are responsible for modeling complex business problems, discovering new business insights and finding opportunities through the use of algorithmic, statistical, data-mining and visualization techniques. In addition, this role also integrates and prepares large, varied datasets and designs and builds specialized databases and computing environments (data modelling development and architecture). The incumbents communicate and present results of their research in a structured and clear way that can be easily understood by various business stakeholders and clients. Ultimately, the Data Scientists work closely with various stakeholders across the Corporation to turn data into meaningful insights that is then used to make sound business decisions.

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey empowers our members to achieve their best health. For over 90 years, we have been New Jersey’s health solutions leader driving innovations that improve health care quality, affordability, and member experience. Our members are our neighbors, our friends, and our families. It is this understanding that drives us to better serve and care for the 3.5 million people who place their trust in us. We pride ourselves on our best-in-class employees and strive to maintain an innovative and inclusive environment that allows them to thrive. When our employees bring their best and succeed, the Company succeeds.

Data Scientists are responsible for modeling complex business problems, discovering new business insights and finding opportunities through the use of algorithmic, statistical, data-mining and visualization techniques. In addition, this role also integrates and prepares large, varied datasets and designs and builds specialized databases and computing environments (data modelling development and architecture). The incumbents communicate and present results of their research in a structured and clear way that can be easily understood by various business stakeholders and clients. Ultimately, the Data Scientists work closely with various stakeholders across the Corporation to turn data into meaningful insights that is then used to make sound business decisions.

Major Responsibilities (8 to 10 in total)

• Works under general supervision to model moderately complex business problems, discover business insights and identify opportunities through the use of statistical, algorithmic, data mining and visualization techniques.
• Identifies business requirements and anticipated outcomes by working with company stakeholders.
• Works with business analysts to suggest other possible solutions of interest to the client.
• Models and frames business scenarios that are meaningful and have impact on critical business processes and/or decisions.
• Assists in solving client/stakeholder business problems and documents results and methodologies.
• Works in iterative processes and validates findings.
• Discovers patterns in data through the employment of appropriate algorithms.
• Uses the expected assurance and qualification of information to quantify the accuracy metrics of analysis.
• Provides relevant business metrics for projects to substantiate and demonstrate improvements.
• Monitors and tracks the performance of decision systems and statistical models on an on-going basis.
• Consistently demonstrates high standards of integrity by supporting the Company mission and values and adhering to the Corporate Code of Conduct
• Maintains high regard for member privacy in accordance with the corporate privacy policies and procedures.
• Regular and reliable attendance is expected and required.
• Performs other functions as assigned by management.

Education/Experience:

• Master’s Degree in Data Science, Data Analytics or Computer Science (or equivalent technical field). In lieu of a Master’s Degree, a Bachelor degree in equivalent fields plus applicable 3-5 years of relevant data science work would be considered.
• 3-5 year of experience using databases, manipulating large datasets, developing ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) routines and various data cleansing and data normalization process and techniques.
• 3-5 year of experience with a general-purpose programming language such as Python/R (applied to big data frameworks such as Hadoop MapReduce , Spark , others).

Additional licensing, certifications, registrations:

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience in the use of statistical packages and their interpretations for machine learning (such as R/Python or Enterprise Miner) such as: Linear/Logistic regression models, PCA/SVM, boosting techniques, cluster analysis, neural networks.
• Familiarity with basic principles of distributed computing, databases and schema.
• Demonstrates the following scientific qualities in work: significance, breadth, depth, clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, logic and fairness.
• Demonstrable ability to quickly understand new concepts and to come up with original solutions to various mathematical issues.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Horizon BCBSNJ employees must live in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut or Delaware

Salary Range:

$86,000 - $117,390

This compensation range is specific to the job level and takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to: education, experience, licensure, certifications, geographic location, and internal equity. This range has been created in good faith based on information known to Horizon at the time of posting. Compensation decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each case. Horizon also provides a comprehensive compensation and benefits package which includes:

• Comprehensive health benefits (Medical/Dental/Vision)

• Retirement Plans

• Generous PTO

• Incentive Plans

• Wellness Programs

• Paid Volunteer Time Off

• Tuition Reimbursement

Disclaimer:
This job summary has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by colleagues within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of colleagues assigned to this job.

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability and any other protected class as required by federal, state or local law. Horizon will consider reasonable accommodation requests as part of the recruiting and hiring process.

About the company

Horizon BCBSNJ offers affordable New Jersey healthcare and health insurance for individuals, families and employers. Find cheap NJ health insurance quotes online from Horizon BCBSNJ website, an independent licensee of the BCBS Association.

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