Senior Health Analytics Data Scientist (Remote)

Aon plc; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Aon plc is seeking an Assistant Vice President, Health Analytics Data Scientist to lead advanced modeling on cost‑of‑care, causal inference, and predictive analytics. The role is hands‑on and client‑facing, blending statistical rigor with practical deployment across a range of health datasets, claims, and risk adjustment frameworks.

The position collaborates with ABS, engineers, and actuarial teams, and requires mentoring junior data scientists while driving multiple projects to production in a

Qualifications

• Proven track record in health analytics or medical economics.
• Experience with causal inference in health data.
• Strong programming in Python or R and SQL.
• Experience deploying models in production with MLOps.
• Excellent communication of methods to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver causal inference and predictive modeling workstreams for the US Health Analytics practice, ensuring methodological rigor while staying hands‑on in building, reviewing, and validating models and code within project timelines.
• Collaborate with ABS, cloud architects, and offshore teams to align data pipelines, model architecture, and deployment standards across locations and time zones.
• Design, build, and tune tabular analyses and predictive models including gradient‑boosted and statistical methods, plus emerging AI techniques on large datasets.
• Design and execute medical economics and causal inference studies to estimate program impact using matched cohort emulation, diffs‑in‑differences, and risk adjustment.
• Document methods, data definitions, and results with technical appendices and model cards; present uncertainties clearly to clients and senior leadership.
• Ensure MLOps and model governance end‑to‑end, including tracking, registries, CI/CD, drift monitoring, and governance workflows.
• Mentor data scientists and lead multiple projects with clear priorities, timelines, and milestones.

Skills

Statistical modeling

Causal inference

Predictive modeling

Python

R

SQL

MLOps

Model governance

Education

Statistics

Biostatistics

Mathematics

Economics

Data science

Computer science

Actuarial science

Tools

Databricks

Spark

Azure

Docker

CI/CD

MLflow

Job description

Aon plc is seeking an Assistant Vice President, Health Analytics Data Scientist to lead advanced modeling on cost‑of‑care, causal inference, and predictive analytics. The role is hands‑on and client‑facing, blending statistical rigor with practical deployment across a range of health datasets, claims, and risk adjustment frameworks.

The position collaborates with ABS, engineers, and actuarial teams, and requires mentoring junior data scientists while driving multiple projects to production in a