Senior Data Scientist: AI, NLP & Healthcare on GCP

Independence Blue Cross; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Independence Blue Cross (IBX) is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join our Data Science and ML team. You will design, deploy, and monitor scalable ML/AI solutions on GCP, partnering with stakeholders and engineers to deliver measurable business value.

You will lead end-to-end ML lifecycles, apply NLP/LLM techniques, and mentor junior members while advancing data science practices across the organization.

Qualifications

• Hands-on data science product delivery from conception to monitoring.
• Ability to translate business problems into scalable AI solutions.
• Strong understanding of ML lifecycle: development, validation, deployment, and governance.
• Proficient in Python and SQL with modular, maintainable code.
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably GCP; other clouds valued.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end development of ML/AI solutions, including framing, data prep, modeling, deployment, and monitoring.
• Partner with stakeholders to define problems, shape analytical strategies, and deliver insights.
• Develop, evaluate, and optimize models using advanced statistics and experiments.
• Deploy, monitor, and maintain production ML/AI solutions with scalable performance.
• Conduct model bias audits; ensure fairness, explainability, and governance alignment.
• Interpret results, communicate risks and recommendations to leadership and teams.
• Explore NLP, LLM, and Generative AI to automate processes and create innovative solutions.
• Promote MLOps, CI/CD, and production AI best practices; mentor juniors.
• Stay current with AI and GCP advances and share knowledge across the organization.

Skills

Python

SQL

GCP

NLP

LLM

Generative AI

MLOps

CI/CD

BigQuery

R (plus)

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field

Master’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field

PhD or higher in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field

Tools

GitHub

BigQuery

Microsoft Copilot

CI/CD tooling

R

Job description

Independence Blue Cross (IBX) is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join our Data Science and ML team. You will design, deploy, and monitor scalable ML/AI solutions on GCP, partnering with stakeholders and engineers to deliver measurable business value.

You will lead end-to-end ML lifecycles, apply NLP/LLM techniques, and mentor junior members while advancing data science practices across the organization.