Principal Data Scientist: Strategic Analytics Leader

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina

Georgia

On-site

USD 144,000 - 230,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Annual Incentive Bonus

401(k) with employer match

Health benefits

Job summary

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is seeking a Principal Data Scientist to lead multiple large and complex analytics projects, translating data into strategic business decisions and partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver enterprise-wide outcomes.

The role emphasizes building scalable data pipelines, advanced modeling in Python and R, and delivering actionable insights to executive leadership, with a strong focus on Payment Integrity, SIU, and Medicare programs.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or advanced degree required; 8+ years in related field preferred.
In lieu of degree, 10+ years of experience in related field accepted.
Strong analytic/data science skills in statistical analysis, modeling and data mining.
Experience with data integration across multiple data sources and data quality.

Responsibilities

Lead development and testing of hypotheses across data sets.
Lead requirements gathering sessions with business and technical staff to distill technical requirements from business requests.
Define and implement integrated data models across sources.
Design and develop scalable data pipelines for ingestion, cleansing, transformation, integration and validation.
Develop production models using Python and R.
Engineer new data sets and write SQL queries for data integration and quality.
Communicate results to executive leadership and cross-functional teams.