Health Data Scientist: Data-Driven Public Health

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

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