Senior Healthcare Data Scientist: AI-Driven Insights

Surescripts; United States; Hybrid; USD 158,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Generous PTO

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Surescripts is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to drive data-driven decision making across functions in a Hybrid work setting in the United States. You will design advanced analytics and AI-powered solutions, collaborate with leaders, and mentor teams to deliver impactful insights while ensuring privacy and security in data usage.

You will lead efforts in improving processes, training on new techniques, and evangelizing data science across the enterprise to support strategic goals.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in data science, data management and/or applying data analysis and reporting skills in a business context.
• 2+ years of experience with large healthcare transactional datasets / reporting
• Expertise in programming languages to facilitate analysis (R, Python or MATLAB)
• Expertise with SQL /PLSQL, Relational and NoSQL databases, and Structured and Unstructured data
• Analytical background and research experience with large volumes of personal data
• Ability to translate statistical analysis into a written and verbal presentation for non-data science audience.
• Experience in statistical modeling using healthcare data
• Experience developing training material and delivering training to user groups of 10 or more
• Knowledge of privacy laws and regulations around health data (HIPAA)
• Demonstrated proficiency using AI assistants across planning, design, implementation, and documentation
• Demonstrated experience providing QA oversight for analytics/ML deliverables
• Experience with AI-teaming techniques for refining technical solutions

Responsibilities

• Data Visualization: Create compelling visualizations to communicate findings and insights to stakeholders.
• Collaboration: Work with business leaders, product managers, data scientists, and engineers to translate requirements into analytical solutions.
• AI-Assisted Planning & Design: Use AI assistants to accelerate requirements clarification and design; convert outputs into reviewed artifacts.
• AI-Assisted Implementation: Use AI coding assistants to draft code/queries/notebooks/pipelines with human review.
• QA Oversight: Define acceptance criteria, test strategy, and validation methods; partner with QA on regression coverage.
• AI-Teaming & Refinement: Refine solutions using prompt engineering, grounding, evaluation rubrics; document prompts and decisions.
• Mentorship: Guide other data scientists, analysts, and engineers within the team.
• Continuous Learning: Stay updated on industry trends and best practices in data science.
• Evangelism: Promote capabilities of data science within the company to support goals.
• Data quality: Validate data integrity and support data quality initiatives.
• Privacy compliance: Follow data governance and privacy policies.
• Documentation: Define report templates and specifications.
• Communication: Convey analytic results clearly to sponsors/clients at all levels.

Skills

Data science experience

Statistical analysis

Healthcare data understanding

Education

Master’s degree in Mathematics/CS/Statistics

PhD in quantitative field

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

SQL/PLSQL

Relational & NoSQL databases

Job description

Surescripts is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to drive data-driven decision making across functions in a Hybrid work setting in the United States. You will design advanced analytics and AI-powered solutions, collaborate with leaders, and mentor teams to deliver impactful insights while ensuring privacy and security in data usage.

You will lead efforts in improving processes, training on new techniques, and evangelizing data science across the enterprise to support strategic goals.