Health Analytics VP, Data Science & Impact

Aon; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 160,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Aon is seeking an Assistant Vice President, Health Analytics Data Scientist to lead advanced health analytics initiatives across cost-of-care measurement, causal inference, and predictive modeling. The role combines hands-on modeling with governance, documentation, and client-facing communication.

The successful candidate will own design, validation, and deployment of ML models on large health claims datasets, partnering with ABS, engineering, and actuarial teams, while mentoring juniors and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in health analytics or health benefits consulting.
• Strong foundation in applied statistics and causal inference.
• Track record of building and deploying tabular predictive models on large medical and pharmacy claims datasets.
• Ability to document methods rigorously and present results to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with MLOps and model governance, and partnering with enterprise technology teams to deploy models into production.

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead causal inference and predictive modeling workstreams for US Health Analytics, ensuring methodological rigor while remaining hands-on.
• Collaborate with ABS, cloud architects, and offshore teams to align data pipelines, model architecture, and deployment standards.
• Design, build, and tune tabular analyses and predictive models using gradient-boosted and other methods on large claims datasets.
• Design and execute medical economics and causal studies to estimate program impact using matched cohort emulation, difference-in-differences, and risk adjustment.
• Document methods, data definitions, and results; present findings clearly to clients and senior leaders.

Skills

Python

R

SQL

MLOps

Model governance

Causal inference

Statistical modeling

Data coaching

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant quantitative field

Tools

Databricks

Spark

Azure

Docker

Job description

Aon is seeking an Assistant Vice President, Health Analytics Data Scientist to lead advanced health analytics initiatives across cost-of-care measurement, causal inference, and predictive modeling. The role combines hands-on modeling with governance, documentation, and client-facing communication.

The successful candidate will own design, validation, and deployment of ML models on large health claims datasets, partnering with ABS, engineering, and actuarial teams, while mentoring juniors and