Senior Data Scientist & Enterprise Analytics Leader

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina; Arkansas; On-site; USD 144,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina seeks a Principal Data Scientist to lead strategic analyses translating data into actionable decisions. You will own multiple large-scale data science and engineering projects and mentor analysts across enterprise areas, including Payment Integrity and Medicaid policy.

Role requires 8+ years of experience, strong analytic skills, and expertise with Snowflake, AI agents, and healthcare data.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or advanced degree required or 10+ years of related experience in lieu of degree.
• 8+ years of experience in data science or analytics.
• Strong analytic/data science skills across hypothesis testing, modeling, and data wrangling.
• Experience with Snowflake and data pipelines.
• Experience building AI agents and data-driven solutions.
• Knowledge of healthcare Payment Integrity/FWA preferred.
• Familiarity with CMS guidelines and policy concepts.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and testing of hypotheses across functional data sets.
• Gather requirements with business and technical staff to distill technical needs.
• Define and implement integrated data models and multi-source data integration.
• Design scalable data pipelines for ingestion, cleansing, transformation, integration and validation.
• Develop production models using techniques like data mining, statistical analysis, and predictive modeling.
• Engineer new data sets and write SQL queries; resolve data quality issues.
• Lead complex analytic models and communicate results to cross-functional teams.
• Inform executive leadership and drive data-driven business recommendations.

Skills

Data Science

Big Data

Data Analysis

Data Modeling

Machine Learning

Python

Statistical Analysis

Data Visualization

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Snowflake

SQL

Python

R

Job description

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina seeks a Principal Data Scientist to lead strategic analyses translating data into actionable decisions. You will own multiple large-scale data science and engineering projects and mentor analysts across enterprise areas, including Payment Integrity and Medicaid policy.

Role requires 8+ years of experience, strong analytic skills, and expertise with Snowflake, AI agents, and healthcare data.