Senior Data Scientist - AI

CVS Health; Massachusetts; Hybrid; USD 93,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Retirement savings options

Wellness programs

PTO and comprehensive benefits

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking an AI/ML-focused professional in Massachusetts to lead end-to-end AI projects that automate and augment operations. You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders to design and deliver AI-driven solutions and predictive models.

The role emphasizes applying statistical analysis to large data sets, presenting results to constituents, and contributing to enterprise technology initiatives with strong Python and SQL skills.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of AI/analytics experience.
• 3+ years programming in Python.
• 3+ years programming in SQL.
• 3+ years working with Cloud technology.
• Experience developing AI/ML-driven products or decision-support tools.
• Experience developing, implementing and supporting enterprise technology solutions.

Responsibilities

• Leverages cutting-edge AI techniques to develop agents or tools for automation and augmentation use cases in operations.
• Executes AI projects from conception to completion, ensuring timelines and quality standards.
• Analyzes requirements, feasibility, and proposes AI solutions, prompts, and platform capabilities.
• Collaborates with AI engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to implement AI solutions.
• Performs data analyses to solve complex business problems using statistics and math.
• Interacts with peers and managers to exchange complex information related to areas of specialization.

Skills

Python programming

SQL programming

Cloud technology

AI/ML product development

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Master's degree or PhD preferred

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

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.

Position Summary

Leverages cutting-edge AI techniques to develop agents or tools for automation and augmentation use cases in operations Executes AI projects from conception to completion, ensuring adherence to timelines, quality standards, organizational priorities, and business objectives Analyzes requirements, assesses feasibility, and proposes AI solutions, conversational experiences, prompts, and platform capabilities in order to address new initiative challenges effectively. Collaborates with AI engineers, architects, product managers, and business stakeholders to develop and implement AI solutions Determines analytical approaches and modeling techniques to evaluate scenarios and potential future outcomes Performs analyses of structured and unstructured data to solve multiple and/or complex business problems utilizing statistical techniques and mathematical analyses Collaborates with business partners to understand their problems and goals, develop predictive modeling, statistical analysis, data reports and performance metrics Develops and participates in presentations and consultations to existing and prospective constituents on results and solutions Interacts with internal and external peers and managers to exchange complex information related to areas of specialization Use strong programming skills to explore, examine and interpret large volumes of data in various forms.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant AI and/or analytics experience
• 3+ years’ experience programming in Python
• 3+ years’ experience programming in SQL
• 3+ years’ experience working with Cloud technology
• Experience developing AI/ML-driven products or decision-support tools, familiarity with agentic architecture and deployment
• Experience developing, implementing and supporting enterprise technology solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrates strong ability to communicate technical concepts and implications to business partners
• Anticipates and prevents problems and roadblocks before they occur
• Strong knowledge of advanced analytics tools and languages to analyze large data sets from multiple data sources
• Experience with Generative AI, large language models (LLMs), prompt design, and AI orchestration preferred
• Experience with cloud-based technology platforms and AI solution deployments preferred

Education

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Business Analytics, Economics, Physics, Engineering, or related discipline.
• Master’s degree or PhD preferred

Anticipated Weekly Hours

• 40

Time Type

• Full time

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is: $92,700.00 - $203,940.00 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.

Our people fuel our future.

Great benefits for great people

• 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: 01/01/2027

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

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people.

Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.