Lead Data Scientist

HCA Healthcare, Inc.; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

401(k) with match

Stock purchase plan

Job summary

HCA Healthcare, Inc. is seeking a Lead Data Scientist to join the CTI team. You will drive production-grade data science solutions, from incubation to deployment, leveraging AI/ML across healthcare data domains.

You will design data pipelines, build predictive models, and collaborate with engineers, data scientists, and product managers to deliver impactful data products that improve patient outcomes and care delivery.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of data science and machine learning experience (Lead level).
• Expert experience in SQL and Python.
• Experience with structured and unstructured data (tabular, text, images, video).
• Experience with SQL relational and non-relational databases.
• Experience with data processing and ETL tools (e.g. Apache Spark).
• Experience with data visualization and data monitoring tools.
• Experience with modern software engineering practices (CI/CD).
• Experience with Docker.
• Experience with cloud deployments in GCP or another cloud platform.
• Experience with Agile development methods and tools (Azure DevOps).
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across teams.

Responsibilities

• DATA INJECTION: Design and implement incoming data for feature engineering and ML.
• FEATURE CREATION AND TRANSFORMATION: Create features with predictive power using healthcare data knowledge.
• FEATURE EXTRACTION AND SELECTION: Extract features using PCA, text analytics, clustering for scalability.
• EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS: Identify patterns and relationships to align features with ML methods.
• MODEL EXPERIMENTATION: Develop, tune, and optimize predictive models.
• DELIVERY: Deploy code using best practices.
• DOCUMENTATION: Document data science strategies and insights.
• MONITORING: Build and maintain enterprise-grade pipelines and models.
• DATA AND OUTPUT QUALITY: Ensure data integrity throughout the process.
• PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT MINDSET: Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver high-quality data products.

Skills

SQL

Python

Communication

Healthcare domain

Storytelling with data

Tools

Docker

Apache Spark

Azure DevOps

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

Benefits

Work from Home, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
• Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
• Colleague recognition program
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
• Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

You contribute to our success. Every role has an impact on our patients’ lives and you have the opportunity to make a difference. We are looking for a dedicated Lead Data Scientist like you to be a part of our team.

Job Summary

Job Summary and Qualifications

At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to providing our patients and care providers with the highest quality of healthcare services. HCA’s Care Transformation and Innovation (CT&I) team delivers a step change in that direction through clinically led integration of digital and AI technologies into care.

Data Scientists within CT&I will play a critical role in helping us achieve this goal by actively solving for and implementing a broad range of data science solutions to drive transformational change. This includes delivery of data science products from incubation to deployment to monitoring; including solutioning for the business need, data analysis, feature engineering, building and validating models, deploying solutions to enterprise production platforms, and monitoring model performance and reliability.

This individual will be responsible for actively delivering production grade data science products; including implementing best practices, frameworks, tooling, and documentation.

They will be expected to bring hands-on expertise in predictive analytics, classification, image recognition, NLP, anomaly detection, machine learning, EDA, feature engineering, optimization, statistics, and generalized business problem solving by creatively applying AI/ML.

What you will do

• DATA INJECTION: Design and implement incoming data for feature engineering and machine learning
• FEATURE CREATION AND TRANSFORMATION: Create features with usable predictive power by using domain knowledge of healthcare data, statistics, and data science
• FEATURE EXTRACTION AND SELECTION: Extract features via cluster analysis, text analytics, principal components analysis and related methodologies to identify useful information without distorting original relationships or significant information in order to performance tune and promote scalability of the model
• EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS: Conduct data exploration and analysis to identify relevant patterns, trends, and relationships; understand the data deeply to appropriately align the data features with the appropriate machine learning methodologies
• MODEL EXPERIMENTATION: Apply various statistical and machine learning techniques to develop, tune, and optimize predictive modeling to align with the use case requirements
• DELIVERY: Deploy code using best practices
• DOCUMENTATION: Document and present data science strategies and insights and solutions
• MONITORING: Build and maintain pipelines, code, and processes to monitor the proper functioning of enterprise grade data science products
• DATA AND OUTPUT QUALITY: Ensure high quality and integrity throughout the entire data science process
• PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT MINDSET: Collaborate with stakeholders, data scientists, data engineers, and product managers to build and deliver high-quality data products

What qualifications you will need

• 6+ years of overall experience in various aspects of data science and machine learning (for Lead level)
• Expert experience in SQL and Python
• Experience with structured and unstructured data (ie. tabular, text, images, video, etc)
• Experience with SQL relational and non-relational databases
• Experience with data processing and ETL tools (e.g Apache Spark)
• Experience with data visualization and data monitoring tools
• Experience with modern software engineering practices (e.g. automated testing, continuous integration and continuous development)
• Experience with Docker
• Experience with cloud deployments in GCP or another cloud platform
• Experience with Agile development methods and tools (e.g. Azure Dev Ops)
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across multiple teams and stakeholders
• Ability to tell a story using data and insights that drives action and change
• Domain knowledge of healthcare data preferred
• Expertise in healthcare protocols and formats such as HL7, FHIR, DICOM preferred
• Expert in the regulatory aspects of the healthcare domain preferred
• Experience in GCP platform preferred

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HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

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