Senior Data Scientist: Healthcare Forecasting & ML

Centene Corp.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 108,000 - 199,000; Full time

Job summary

Centene Corp. seeks a Data Scientist III to forecast Ambetter membership and support financial planning, pricing, and strategic decisions. You will design and validate machine learning and statistical models, build data assets and feature pipelines, and translate market dynamics into actionable projections.

The role emphasizes exploring regulatory, competitive, and product-driven changes, delivering scalable analytics, and communicating results to health-plan stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree or equivalent experience in a quantitative field with 5+ years in data science, analytics, or related roles.
• Experience building predictive models, forecasting, and analytics for large datasets.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop data models to forecast member outcomes and measure impact of member decisions.
• Build and maintain data assets, feature pipelines, and analytical datasets for forecasting and reporting.
• Conduct exploratory analysis to identify trends and drivers affecting forecast performance.
• Develop and validate machine learning and statistical models and experiments.

Skills

R

Python

SQL

Databricks

Snowflake

Posit

JupyterHub

Education

Master's degree in Statistics/Mathematics/CS/INFORMATICS/Econometrics/Engineering/Experimental Science

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

Tools

Teradata

MS SQL Server

Snowflake

Job description

Centene Corp. seeks a Data Scientist III to forecast Ambetter membership and support financial planning, pricing, and strategic decisions. You will design and validate machine learning and statistical models, build data assets and feature pipelines, and translate market dynamics into actionable projections.

The role emphasizes exploring regulatory, competitive, and product-driven changes, delivering scalable analytics, and communicating results to health-plan stakeholders.