Principal Data Scientist — Lead Analytics, Pipelines & Strategy

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 144,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is seeking a Principal Data Scientist to lead data-driven decision making across the enterprise.

You will own multiple large data science and engineering projects, develop scalable data pipelines, and deliver production models using Python and R. The role requires 8+ years in analytics and healthcare domain knowledge, with strong stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or advanced degree in a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in a related field; 10+ years if no degree.
• Strong analytic/data science skills.
• Experience with Snowflake.
• Experience building AI Agents.
• Healthcare/payments integrity domain knowledge preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and testing of hypotheses across data sets.
• Gather requirements from business and technical staff.
• Define and implement integrated data models from multiple sources.
• Design scalable data pipelines for ingestion, cleansing, transformation, and validation.
• Create production models using Python and R.
• Engineer new data sets and resolve data quality issues.
• Lead complex analytic models and communicate results to executives.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree

Tools

Snowflake

Python

R

Job description

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is seeking a Principal Data Scientist to lead data-driven decision making across the enterprise.

You will own multiple large data science and engineering projects, develop scalable data pipelines, and deliver production models using Python and R. The role requires 8+ years in analytics and healthcare domain knowledge, with strong stakeholder engagement.