Health Data Scientist

Booz Allen Hamilton; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 87,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, life, disability, financial, &

retirement benefits

Paid leave

Professional development

Tuition assistance

Work-life programs

Dependent care

Recognition awards

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Health Data Scientist to help build advanced technology solutions and data pipelines for mission-driven projects in healthcare and public health. You will work with a multidisciplinary team to design, deploy, and maintain scalable data platforms, enabling analytics across structured and unstructured data while communicating complex concepts to clinical stakeholders.

This role requires collaboration, data quality testing, and readiness for a Public Trust

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience with PySpark, SQL, and Azure Databricks.
• Experience supporting collaborative, cross-functional technical teams.
• Experience with data science and data analytics, including structured, unstructured, or relational.
• Experience with data quality testing.
• Knowledge of public health, healthcare, or health data.
• Ability to verbally communicate complex analytic concepts to clinical and public health stakeholders and write SOPs/reports.
• Ability to implement data science solutions and collaborate with developers.
• Ability to develop scripts to convert data into usable formats and support scaling/monitoring data platforms.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination.
• Bachelor’s degree.

Responsibilities

• As a Health Data Scientist at Booz Allen, you’ll help build advanced technology solutions and implement data engineering activities on mission-driven projects.
• You’ll deploy and develop pipelines and platforms that organize and make disparate data meaningful.
• You’ll guide a multi-disciplinary team of analysts, data engineers, clinical SMEs, developers, and data consumers in a fast-paced, agile environment.
• You’ll manage assessment, design, building, and maintenance of scalable platforms for clients.

Skills

PySpark

SQL

Azure Databricks

Cross-functional collaboration

Data science

Data analytics

Data quality testing

Public health knowledge

Communication of analytics

Data science solutions

Data wrangling

Security clearance readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

R

Scala

Java

AWS

Azure

GCP

Spark

Databricks

Hadoop

Kafka

Job description

Ever-expanding technology such as IoT, machine learning, and artificial intelligence means there’s more structured and unstructured data available today than ever before. As a data health scientist, you know that organizing data can yield pivotal insights when it’s gathered from disparate sources. We need an experienced data health scientist like you to help our clients find answers in their data to impact important missions, from supporting clinical decision-making to accelerating public health modernization.

Job Number: R0246455

Health Data Scientist

Ever-expanding technology such as IoT, machine learning, and artificial intelligence means there’s more structured and unstructured data available today than ever before. As a data health scientist, you know that organizing data can yield pivotal insights when it’s gathered from disparate sources. We need an experienced data health scientist like you to help our clients find answers in their data to impact important missions, from supporting clinical decision-making to accelerating public health modernization.

As a Health Data Scientist at Booz Allen, you’ll help build advanced technology solutions and implement data engineering activities on some of the most mission-driven projects in the industry. You’ll deploy and develop pipelines and platforms that organize and make disparate data meaningful.

Here, you’ll work with and guide a multi-disciplinary team of analysts, data engineers, clinical SMEs, developers, and data consumers in a fast-paced, agile environment. You’ll use your experience in analytical exploration and data examination while you manage the assessment, design, building, and maintenance of scalable platforms for your clients.

Work with us to use data for good. Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have

• 3+ years of experience with PySpark, SQL, and Azure Databricks
• Experience supporting collaborative, cross-functional technical teams
• Experience with data science and data analytics, including structured, unstructured, or relational
• Experience with data quality testing
• Knowledge of public health, healthcare, or health data
• Ability to verbally communicate complex analytic concepts to clinical and public health stakeholders and execute written communication through the development of standard operation procedures (SOPs), analytic reports, or manuscripts submitted for publication
• Ability to implement data science solutions and collaborate with developers to create new analytics
• Ability to develop scripts and programs for converting various types of data into usable formats, and support the team in scaling, monitoring, and operating data platforms and conducting data quality testing
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements
• Bachelor’s degree

Nice If You Have

• Experience with FHIR-based data and large-scale data processing
• Experience with R, Scala, or Java
• Experience retrieving, parsing, and processing structured and unstructured data
• Experience building scalable ETL or ELT workflows for reporting and analytics
• Experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Experience with distributed data or computing tools such as Spark, Databricks, Hadoop, Hive, EMR, and Kafka
• Experience working with real-time or streaming data systems
• Experience with data warehousing, including Redshift, MySQL, and Snowflake
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Knowledge of EHR or Health IT systems

Vetting

Applicants selected will be subject to a government investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements of the U.S. government client.

Compensation

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values.

• health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits
• paid leave
• professional development
• tuition assistance
• work-life programs
• dependent care
• Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values

Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $86,800.00 to $198,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

Identity Statement

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Candidate AI Usage Policy

AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.

Work Model

Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration, whether it occurs in person or virtually. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.

• Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
• Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and the needs of the role. You may also be required to work from or visit a customer facility.
• Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.