Principal Data Scientist & Analytics Leader

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina; Alabama; On-site; USD 144,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina seeks a Principal Data Scientist to lead high-impact analytics, translating data into strategic decisions. You will own multiple large data science and engineering projects, driving hypothesis testing, data modeling, and production-ready solutions.

Collaborate with executive teams and enterprise areas to align with organizational strategy, leveraging Python, R, and Snowflake to build scalable pipelines and actionable insights across complex health

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or advanced degree required.
• 8+ years in a related field; 10+ years in lieu of a degree is acceptable.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and testing of hypotheses across data sets.
• Define and implement integrated data models from multiple sources.
• Design and develop scalable data pipelines for ingestion, cleansing, and transformation.
• Develop production models using Python and R.
• Engineer new data sets and write SQL queries for data integration.
• Communicate results to cross-functional groups to influence business decisions.
• Mentor analysts and contribute to executive-level discussions.

Skills

Analytic/Data Science skills

Snowflake

AI Agents

Bell curve analysis

Industry benchmarks

Outlier detection

Healthcare domain knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree

Tools

Snowflake

AI Agents

Job description

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina seeks a Principal Data Scientist to lead high-impact analytics, translating data into strategic decisions. You will own multiple large data science and engineering projects, driving hypothesis testing, data modeling, and production-ready solutions.

Collaborate with executive teams and enterprise areas to align with organizational strategy, leveraging Python, R, and Snowflake to build scalable pipelines and actionable insights across complex health