Senior Data Scientist
Premier Inc.About the role
What you will be doing:
The Senior Data Scientist is a Subject Matter Expert that advises on both structured and unstructured analytic models to solve complex data problems in a way that ensures consistency, reusability, and quality across the organization.
This position will have responsibility for the development, delivery, enhancement, integration, integrity, maintenance, and support of the operation of information technology (IT) infrastructure, data, products, solutions, and services to support client operations and business activities. This position will be a senior individual contributor and subject matter expert for strategic initiatives around data exploration, data analysis, and complex, high dimensional datasets.
Data Modeling
Application Methodology Development
AI, Machine Learning, and statistical modeling
Key Responsibilities
Responsibility #1– 35%
Development and Implementation
• Collaborates with Data Science leadership, Product Management, Development, and Research teams in the creation and implementation of machine learning algorithms and statistical models.
• Leads the design and implementation of complex data solutions across teams while maintaining consistency within Premier methodology (e.g. prediction, probabilistic data matching, identifying outliers, confidence scoring, etc.)
• Work with developers and architects to translate prototypes into new products, services, and feature, and provide guidelines for large scale implementation.
• Use a flexible, analytical approach to design, develop, and evaluate predictive models, ML, AI, NLP and advanced algorithms that lead to optimal value extraction from the data.
• Produce innovative solutions driven by exploratory data analysis from complex and highly dimensional datasets
Responsibility #2 – 25%
Strategy and Design
• Serves as a subject matter expert within various business domains (Cost, Clinical, MDM, etc.)
• Participate in data exploration and conceptual design for strategic initiatives
• Apply knowledge of statistics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, programming, data modeling, simulation and advanced mathematics to recognize patterns, identify opportunities, pose business questions, and make valuable discoveries leading to prototype development and product improvement
• Generate and test hypotheses and analyze and interpret the results of product experiments
Responsibility #3 – 20%
Requirements Analysis
• Acts as an active member of the team throughout the design and implementation of the solution.
• Participate in build vs. buy decisions with outside vendors as it relates to analytic-based solutions
• Facilitate & lead meetings with the business/customers and IT teams in order to gather and document requirements
• Analyze business requirements, procedures and problems, to design solutions and make recommendations
• Develop features and stories based on requirements to feed product backlogs
• Conduct impact assessments across all existing applications, integration and data warehouses resulting from the solution implementation
Responsibility #4 – 10%
Knowledge Sharing
• Provide data, data relationships, and data science practice advice, demonstrations and presentations to colleagues, clients, and management. Conduct research, as needed
• Provide mentoring and training
Responsibility #5 – 10%
Data Operations
• Develop project estimates and work plans
• Identifying, developing, reviewing, and evolving best practices, standards, operating procedures, and processes
• Participating in the review of team member deliverables
Required Qualifications
Work Experience:
Years of Applicable Experience - 4 or more yearsEducation:
Bachelors (Required)
Skills:
Statistical Models: probabilistic and predictive statistical models including multipl
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