Senior Data Scientist

AbbVie Inc.; Illinois; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

AbbVie is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join our Analytics & AI organization in Illinois. You will lead the design, development, deployment, and continuous improvement of AI solutions for Copay Intelligence initiatives, applying ML/AI to healthcare data to drive actionable recommendations for patient access and affordability.

You will collaborate with data engineering, business stakeholders, and cross-functional teams, mentor junior data scientists, and stay current with AI trends, with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field.
• Advanced degree preferred but not required.
• 6+ years of experience developing and deploying ML/AI solutions in production.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, deployment, and improvement of AI solutions for Copay Intelligence.
• Build predictive, classification, forecasting, optimization models across healthcare data.
• Deploy ML solutions to production with monitoring, retraining, and governance.
• Translate analytical findings into actionable recommendations for stakeholders.
• Mentor junior data scientists and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Skills

Python

SQL

Scikit-Learn

XGBoost

TensorFlow/PyTorch

Statistics

Big data

MLOps

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Statistics, CS, Data Science, or related

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Spark

AWS/Azure/Google Cloud

Job description

Company Description

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Job Description

AbbVie is seeking an experienced Senior Data Scientist to join our Analytics & AI organization and help advance the next generation of Copay Intelligence capabilities.

This role will focus on developing innovative machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions that help identify complex reimbursement and affordability program dynamics, improve patient access insights, and drive more proactive decision-making across patient support programs.

The successful candidate will play a key role in building predictive intelligence products that leverage healthcare, claims, enrollment, and patient-level data to identify emerging opportunities, uncover hidden patterns, and generate actionable recommendations. These capabilities support a long-term strategy to enhance copay program intelligence, improve affordability insights, and strengthen data-driven decision-making across the organization.

Working closely with data engineering, business stakeholders, technology teams, and analytics partners, this individual will help transform large-scale healthcare data into scalable AI-powered solutions that create measurable business impact.

What You'll Be Doing

The Senior Data Scientist will lead the design, development, deployment, and continuous improvement of advanced analytics and AI solutions supporting AbbVie's Copay Intelligence initiatives. This individual will work on highly visible strategic programs focused on predictive intelligence, healthcare affordability analytics, patient access insights, and advanced machine learning applications. The role requires a combination of strong technical expertise, business acumen, and the ability to translate complex analytical findings into practical solutions. The ideal candidate is passionate about solving challenging problems with data and enjoys working across the full lifecycle of AI and machine learning product development.

Core Responsibilities

AI & Machine Learning Development

• Develop advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence models that support healthcare affordability and copay intelligence initiatives.
• Build predictive models that identify patterns, risks, and opportunities from healthcare, claims, enrollment, and patient-level data.
• Design scoring frameworks, recommendation engines, and decision-support systems that enable proactive business actions.
• Evaluate and implement modern AI methodologies, including machine learning, deep learning, ensemble methods, graph analytics, and Generative AI approaches.
• Continuously improve model performance through experimentation, feedback loops, and performance monitoring.

Advanced Analytics

• Analyze large and complex healthcare datasets to uncover actionable business insights.
• Perform feature engineering, predictive modeling, forecasting, segmentation, optimization, and statistical analyses.
• Assess and monitor model performance using both statistical and business outcome metrics.
• Translate analytical findings into clear recommendations for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Develop methodologies to measure business impact and return on investment for analytical solutions.

AI Product Development & Operationalization

• Partner with data engineering and technology teams to deploy machine learning solutions into production environments.
• Design scalable and maintainable machine learning workflows and pipelines.
• Implement model monitoring, automated retraining, model governance, and performance management processes.
• Support development of enterprise AI products that can be scaled across multiple business functions.
• Ensure solutions adhere to organizational standards for quality, privacy, security, and compliance.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Partner with business stakeholders to identify opportunities where AI and advanced analytics can drive measurable value.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in data science, machine learning, and predictive analytics.
• Present findings, recommendations, and technical concepts to senior leadership and cross-functional teams.
• Mentor junior data scientists and contribute to the growth of the broader analytics community.
• Stay current on emerging technologies and industry trends in AI, machine learning, and healthcare analytics.

Qualifications

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Economics, Operations Research, or a related quantitative discipline.
• Advanced degree (Master's or PhD) is preferred but not required.
• Equivalent combinations of education, specialized training, and relevant professional experience will be considered.
• 6+ years of experience developing and deploying machine learning, artificial intelligence, or advanced analytics solutions in production environments.

Technical Skills

• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Hands-on experience with machine learning frameworks such as Scikit-Learn, XGBoost, LightGBM, TensorFlow, or PyTorch.
• Experience building predictive, classification, forecasting, recommendation, or optimization models.
• Strong knowledge of statistics, experimentation, predictive modeling, and model evaluation techniques.
• Experience working with large-scale data platforms and cloud-based environments.
• Familiarity with MLOps, model deployment, model monitoring, and production AI practices.
• Experience using modern software development and version control practices.

Business & Leadership Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to translate business challenges into data-driven solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across teams.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Passion for innovation, continuous learning, and practical application of AI technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with healthcare, pharmaceutical, claims, payer, patient support, or market access data.
• Experience developing AI-powered decision support systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience with Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, or other large-scale data environments.
• Experience deploying Generative AI or Large Language Model solutions.
• Experience operating in regulated industries where data quality, governance, and validation are critical.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employer remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

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