Principal Decision Scientist, Strategy & Innovation

CVS Health; Rhode Island; Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 288,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

CVS Health, through Signify Health Strategy & Innovation, seeks a Principal Decision Scientist to lead causal inference studies and quantitative sizing for growth opportunities. You will collaborate with data professionals and executive leadership to standardize processes, build evidence, and influence strategic decisions.

The role emphasizes rigorous analytics, healthcare data expertise, and the ability to translate complex questions into actionable insights for the ELT.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in Decision Science, Data Science, Advanced Analytics, or related field.
• Expert SQL and Python skills with large datasets.
• Strong statistics and analytics expertise including hypothesis testing and predictive modeling.
• Demonstrated experience with causal inference and impact measurement.
• Healthcare/payer data expertise with claims/enrollment/ utilization datasets.
• Strong business and executive communication skills.
• Experience with Snowflake and modern cloud data platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Data engineering knowledge including ETL/ELT and relational/NoSQL databases.
• Experience establishing analytics best practices and reusable assets.
• Executive presence and ability to communicate to senior audiences.

Responsibilities

• Extract insights from data to investigate complex business problems via data prep, modeling, analysis, and visualization.
• Design, build, and maintain causal inference studies to quantify member outcomes from in-home health evaluation.
• Build proofs of concepts to identify rich member insights using health plan data and Signify insights.
• Translate ambiguous business questions into structured analytical approaches with strategy and business leaders.
• Conduct sizings of new products and partnerships using internal operational and clinical data.
• Champion analytics best practices: version control, pipelines, data sources, and documentation across Signify.
• Mentor analytics talent across the organization and act as a technical thought partner.
• Present analyses to Signify's ELT and executives, building credibility and influence.

Skills

SQL

Python

Statistics

Causal inference

Healthcare data

Executive communication

Cloud data platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree (quantitative field)

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Snowflake

AWS

Azure

GCP

ETL/ELT

NoSQL databases

Job description

We're building a world of health around every individual - shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you'll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger - helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.

The Signify Health Strategy & Innovation team is responsible for shaping the company's long-term strategy, discovering opportunities to accelerate growth, and identifying and testing net new offerings or capabilities. The team serves in an advisory capacity to Signify's Executive Leadership Team (ELT) - partnering closely with leaders to evaluate challenges and opportunities, facilitate decision-making, and execute early-stage proofs of concept.

The Principal Decision Scientist is the team's first dedicated quantitative hire to bring additional rigor to strategy as an individual contributor who designs and builds the causal inference studies and sizing analyses that underpin Signify's highest-visibility strategic recommendations.

Work falls into two buckets: (i) leading deep statistical studies to prove member outcomes and (ii) providing quantitative sizing to guide decisions on new growth opportunities. The individual will also (iii) be responsible to collaborate across Signify's business functions, including with other data professionals to standardize and improve technical fundamentals, documentation, code reviews, data models, and quality controls.

Ideal candidates are data-driven, inquisitive, autonomous, and entrepreneurial thinkers who can collaborate effectively across functions and with executive leadership.

Position Responsibilities

(i) Clinical Evidence Generation & Member Insights

• Extract knowledge and insights from data in order to investigate complex business problems through a range of data preparation, modeling, analysis and/or visualization techniques, including predictive analysis, business intelligence, pattern recognition, operational effectiveness and/or economic forecasting
• Design, build, and maintain causal inference studies that quantify the member-level clinical outcomes of the in-home health evaluation, supporting workflow and service enhancements
• Build and validate proof of concepts to identify rich, incremental member insights, leveraging health plan data combined with Signify's in-home insights. Potential approaches include statistical analysis, machine learning, and other applied methods

(ii) Analytic Support of Strategic and Growth Evaluations

• Translate ambiguous, open-ended business questions into structured analytical approaches, partnering with strategy and business function leaders
• Conduct new product and partnership opportunity sizings by analyzing Signify's internal operational and clinical data, supplemented by publicly available data where needed

(iii) Analytic Best Practices and Cross-Company Collaboration

• Champion analytics best practices, e.g. engineering standards, version control, code review, documented pipelines, common data sources, with other analytic leaders within Signify to improve quality, repeatability, and ability to build off each other's work
• Act as a technical thought partner and mentor to analytics talent across the organization
• Bring a creative, structured approach to pressure-testing methodology and hypotheses across the full active portfolio, not only assigned workstreams
• Present analysis directly to Signify's ELT and executive leadership, as workstream lead or in support of a strategy lead, building credibility and influence at the executive level

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in Decision Science, Data Science, Advanced Analytics, or a related quantitative field, with ownership of complex analytical problems from problem definition through actionable recommendations.
• Expert SQL and strong Python skills, with experience analyzing large, complex datasets and applying statistical analysis, modeling, automation, and visualization.
• Strong applied statistics and advanced analytics expertise, including hypothesis testing, regression, experimental design/A-B testing, predictive modeling, and related quantitative methods.
• Demonstrated experience with causal inference and impact measurement to evaluate programs, interventions, strategies, or business decisions.
• Healthcare/payer data expertise, including hands-on experience with claims, enrollment, utilization, laboratory, SDOH, or other member-level healthcare datasets.
• Strong business and executive communication skills, with the ability to translate ambiguous business problems into structured analytical approaches, actionable recommendations, and influence stakeholders in a matrixed environment.
• Experience with Snowflake and/or modern cloud data platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Working knowledge of data engineering and scalable analytical datasets, including ETL/ELT and relational or NoSQL databases.
• Experience establishing or improving analytics/Decision Science best practices and developing reusable analytical assets.
• Demonstrated executive presence and strong written communication, with the ability to clearly communicate complex analysis to senior and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with CMS risk adjustment and Stars quality methodologies.
• Experience building, validating, or deploying machine learning models or proof-of-concepts, including predictive risk models, member insight/segmentation models, or other decision-support applications.
• Experience using machine learning and predictive modeling in combination with causal inference and other analytical methods to inform business decisions.
• Experience working with unstructured clinical and/or provider data.
• Experience applying decision science to complex healthcare, payer, provider, or healthcare operations problems.
• Experience operating in highly ambiguous environments and independently defining the analytical strategy for novel or poorly defined business problems.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field required (statistics, economics, applied mathematics, data science, computer science, or related)
• Master's degree in a quantitative field strongly preferred

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$144,200.00 - $288,400.00

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company's equity award program.

Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.

Great benefits for great people

We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.

This full-time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.

Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 09/21/2026

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.