Lead Data Scientist

Work from Home; Nashville (TN); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical coverage

401(k) Plan with employer match

Stock Purchase Plan

Telemedicine services

Life and disability coverage

Relocation assistance

Job summary

HCA Healthcare is seeking a Lead Data Scientist for the Care Transformation and Innovation (CTI) team. You will deliver production-grade data science products across the lifecycle, applying predictive analytics to healthcare data to support clinically led digital and AI integration.

The role focuses on designing data pipelines, feature engineering, model development, and deployment in a cloud-enabled environment, collaborating across multiple teams.

Qualifications

• Minimum 6+ years in data science and ML for senior/lead roles.
• Expert in SQL and Python.
• Experience with structured and unstructured data.
• Experience with ETL and data processing tools like Spark.
• Familiarity with cloud deployments (GCP/AWS) and CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement data workflows for feature engineering and ML.
• Create features with predictive power using healthcare data knowledge.
• Extract features using analytics methods to ensure performance and scalability.
• Conduct data exploration to identify patterns aligned with ML methodologies.
• Develop, tune, and optimize predictive models for use cases.
• Deploy code following best practices and monitor production systems.
• Document and present DS strategies and insights to stakeholders.
• Build and maintain pipelines to monitor enterprise DS products.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, data scientists, data engineers, and product managers.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data modeling

Spark

Docker

Cloud platforms

Healthcare domain knowledge

Communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Stats/Applied Math

Tools

Apache Spark

Docker

GCP/AWS

Azure DevOps

Job description

As a Lead Data Scientist on HCA Healthcare’s Care Transformation and Innovation (CT&I) team, you will help deliver production-grade data science products across the lifecycle, from early incubation through deployment and ongoing monitoring. The role focuses on applying predictive analytics and machine learning to healthcare data to support clinically led digital and AI integration.

Role Focus

The CT&I team drives transformational change through clinically led integration of digital and AI technologies into care. Data Scientists in this organization solve and implement data science solutions that support business needs and enable step-change outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement incoming data workflows to support feature engineering and machine learning
• Create features with usable predictive power using domain knowledge of healthcare data, statistics, and data science
• Extract features using methods such as cluster analysis, text analytics, principal components analysis, and related approaches to identify useful information while avoiding distortion of original relationships or significant information for performance tuning and scalability
• Conduct data exploration and analysis to identify patterns, trends, and relationships, ensuring features are aligned with appropriate machine learning methodologies
• Develop, tune, and optimize predictive models by applying statistical and machine learning techniques aligned to use case requirements
• Deploy code using established best practices
• Document and present data science strategies, insights, and solutions
• Build and maintain pipelines, code, and processes to monitor the proper functioning of enterprise-grade data science products
• Maintain high quality and integrity throughout the data science process
• Collaborate with stakeholders, data scientists, data engineers, and product managers to deliver high-quality data products

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of overall experience across aspects of data science and machine learning for Lead-level responsibilities
• Expert experience with SQL and Python
• Experience working with structured and unstructured data (for example: tabular, text, images, video)
• Experience with SQL relational and non-relational databases
• Experience with data processing and ETL tools, including Apache Spark
• Experience with data visualization and data monitoring tools
• Experience with modern software engineering practices, such as 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, such as Azure Dev Ops
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across multiple teams and stakeholders
• Ability to communicate insights using data to drive action and change
• Healthcare domain knowledge is preferred
• Healthcare protocols and formats such as HL7, FHIR, and DICOM are preferred
• Expertise in regulatory aspects of the healthcare domain is preferred
• Experience on the GCP platform is preferred

Technologies

• SQL, Python
• Apache Spark
• Docker
• GCP
• Azure Dev Ops
• HL7, FHIR, DICOM

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical coverage
• Prescription drug and behavioral health coverage
• Free telemedicine services
• 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
• 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

Additional Company Context

HCA Healthcare has committed up to $300 million in programs to support team members over the course of three years.

Location and Work Mode

Nashville, TN (remote) in a work-from-home setup.