Senior Data Scientist

Virgin Pulse; United States; Remote; USD 125,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Virgin Pulse seeks a Senior Data Scientist to develop predictive models, manage datasets, and ensure data integrity within a collaborative global environment. Ideal candidates will possess a Master's degree in a relevant field and substantial experience in healthcare data analysis. This role offers the opportunity to influence business strategies while fostering innovation in employee health engagement solutions.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in statistics, computer science, or related field required.
• Three years of relevant data science experience.
• Experience with clinical data and project management.

Responsibilities

• Complete projects end to end in the employee health engagement SaaS industry.
• Prepare datasets and build predictive machine learning models.
• Mentor junior team members in best engineering and data practices.

Skills

Data Analysis

Predictive Modeling

Statistical Techniques

Data Integrity

Data Pipeline Development

Education

Master's degree in statistics, computer science, economics, or related field

Tools

SAS

Python

SQL

Job description

Overview

Now is the time to join us!

We’re Personify Health. We’re the first and only personalized health platform company to bring health, wellbeing, and navigation solutions together. Helping businesses optimize investments in their members while empowering people to meaningfully engage with their health. At Personify Health, we believe in offering total rewards, flexible opportunities, and a diverse inclusive community, where every voice matters. Together, we’re shaping a healthier, more engaged future.

Responsibilities

Senior Data Scientist sought by Personify Health for Providence, RI location. Telecommuting permitted.

Job Duties:

• Summary: Complete projects end to end in the employee health engagement SaaS industry, working in a global environment with remote teams. Prepare datasets and establish data pipelines, build predictive machine learning models, and optimize model performance. Support model deployment and inference workflows across product portfolio. Mentor junior team members.
• Prepare datasets: Procuring, cleaning, transforming, and sampling complex healthcare data using SQL and SAS programming languages.
• Working with data engineers, and software engineers to establish data pipelines.
• Troubleshooting and performing data audits to ensure and improve data integrity; investigating and resolving data discrepancies.
• Leveraging model development software as well as Python and SAS to train/build models.
• Applying statistical techniques to validate and evaluate model performance (e.g. ROC curve, concordance, lift, confusion matrices) to ensure accuracy and reliability.
• Supporting model deployment and inference workflows across Virgin Pulse’s product portfolio in partnership with other Engineering and Product team stakeholders.
• Consulting and collaborating with Product, Analytics, and Account Management team members to ensure appropriate models are developed.
• Working with departmental processes, projects, and programs to keep projects and milestones on schedule, our collaborative and internal work organized as well as externally facing documentation comprehensive, updated, and accessible.
• Mentoring junior team members in best engineering and data science practices.
• Performance of the job duties involves use all of relevant tools and technologies.

Qualifications

Job Requirements:

• Master’s degree in statistics, comp sci, economics, or related field (or foreign equivalent).
• Three (3) years of relevant data science experience.
• Must have skills via:
  • Three (3) years experience with clinical/medical data;
  • Three (3) years experience using SAS and Python programming languages to analyze data and build predictive models;
  • Three (3) years experience writing advanced SQL queries against large relational databases;
  • Three (3) years experience producing and delivering analyses using varied media; and
  • Three (3) years experience managing medium and large-scale model development projects from end to end.

Salary:$125,882.00 - $155,000.00 per year

Personify Health is an equal opportunity organization and is committed to diversity, inclusion, equity, and social justice.

We strive to cultivate a work environment where differences are celebrated, and employees of all backgrounds are empowered to thrive. Personify Health is committed to driving Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) for all stakeholders: employees (at each organization level), members, clients and the communities in which we operate. Diversity is core to who we are and critical to our work in health and wellbeing.

Beware of Hiring Scams:Personify Health will never ask for payment or sensitive personal information such as social security numbers during the hiring process. All official communication will come from a verified company email address. If you receive suspicious requests or communications, please report them [e-mail]. All of our legitimate openings can be found on the Personify HealthCareer Site.

Application Deadline: Open until position is filled.