Senior Decision Scientist – Strategy & Growth

CVS Health; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health, through Signify Health's Strategy & Innovation team, seeks a Principal Decision Scientist to design and run causal inference studies and sizing analyses that underpin strategic recommendations. You will collaborate across business functions, standardize data pipelines, and present actionable insights to executive leadership.

The ideal candidate is data-driven, autonomous, and entrepreneurial, with 10+ years in quantitative analytics, expert SQL and Python, and strong communication

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in Decision Science, Data Science, Advanced Analytics, or a related quantitative field.
• Expert SQL and strong Python skills, with experience analyzing large datasets and applying statistical analysis, modeling, automation, and visualization.
• Strong applied statistics and advanced analytics expertise, including hypothesis testing, regression, experimental design, and predictive modeling.
• Demonstrated experience with causal inference and impact measurement to evaluate programs or decisions.
• Healthcare/payer data expertise, including claims, enrollment, utilization, laboratory, SDOH, or other member-level healthcare datasets.
• Strong business and executive communication skills, with ability to translate problems into structured analytical approaches and influence stakeholders.
• Experience with Snowflake and/or modern cloud data platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Working knowledge of ETL/ELT and relational or NoSQL databases.
• Experience establishing analytics/Decision Science best practices and reusable assets.
• Demonstrated executive presence and strong written communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead deep statistical studies to prove member outcomes and provide quantitative sizing for growth opportunities.
• Collaborate across Signify's business functions and data teams to standardize data models, pipelines, and quality controls.
• Present analysis to Signify's ELT and executives as workstream lead or contributor to strategy discussions.

Skills

SQL

Python

Statistics

Causal inference

Healthcare data

Executive comms

Snowflake

ETL/ELT

Databases

Analytics best practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

Master's degree strongly preferred

Tools

Snowflake

Job description

CVS Health, through Signify Health's Strategy & Innovation team, seeks a Principal Decision Scientist to design and run causal inference studies and sizing analyses that underpin strategic recommendations. You will collaborate across business functions, standardize data pipelines, and present actionable insights to executive leadership.

The ideal candidate is data-driven, autonomous, and entrepreneurial, with 10+ years in quantitative analytics, expert SQL and Python, and strong communication