Senior Lead Data Scientist — Healthcare Analytics & Strategy

0100 PHP Administrative; United States; On-site; USD 118,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Wellness program

Job summary

Presbyterian Healthcare Services is seeking a Lead Data Scientist to identify opportunities in innovative analytics and manage analytical projects within the Analytics Organization. You will mentor junior staff, develop real-time data-driven models, and present actionable insights to senior leadership.

Responsibilities include leading ML and statistical modeling, collaborating with IT and external partners, and delivering predictive and descriptive analytics that improve clinical and operational

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in econometrics, biostatistics, CS, applied math, eng, physics or quantitative field required; Master’s or Ph.D. highly preferred.
• Eight or more years of experience in BI, statistical analysis, predictive modeling and business strategy.
• Expertise in ML, AI, statistical analysis including hypothesis testing and advanced modeling.
• Experience with classification, regression, survival analysis, forecasting and A/B testing.

Responsibilities

• Serve as SME across healthcare analytics domains: program evaluation, care management, clinical and financial analytics.
• Lead design and development of advanced analytical solutions using statistical modeling, forecasting, optimization, and predictive/descriptive modeling.
• Analyze complex data from clinical, financial, and admin sources to identify trends and opportunities.
• Develop, test, validate, and enhance predictive and analytical models for decision-making.
• Translate insights into actionable operational strategies and measurable business outcomes.
• Partner with leaders, IT, vendors, academia, and government to execute analytics initiatives.
• Create data visualizations and self-service analytics for ops teams and leadership.
• Mentor analysts and data scientists; guide junior staff and stakeholders.

Skills

Machine learning

Statistics

Data modeling

Python

R

SQL

Education

Bachelor’s degree in quantitative field

Master’s or Ph.D. preferred

Tools

Python

R

SQL

SAS

Tableau

Job description

Presbyterian Healthcare Services is seeking a Lead Data Scientist to identify opportunities in innovative analytics and manage analytical projects within the Analytics Organization. You will mentor junior staff, develop real-time data-driven models, and present actionable insights to senior leadership.

Responsibilities include leading ML and statistical modeling, collaborating with IT and external partners, and delivering predictive and descriptive analytics that improve clinical and operational