Sr. Data Scientist I - Partnership HealthPlan of California

The Senior Data Scientist I plays a pivotal role in utilizing data to generate insights, applying advanced statistical or machine learning methodologies, solving complex business problems, and influencing decision-making across the organization. This position reports to the Data Science Manager of the Health Analytics unit.

• Applies advanced data analytics techniques to extract insights and patterns from complex
  data sets.
• Develops predictive models, machine learning algorithms, and statistical analyses to
  solve business problems and improve decision-making.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for leveraging data and
  analytics to drive innovation and business advancement.
• Mentors, collaborates and/or leads data analysts and junior data scientists in complex
  analytical projects.
• Communicates complex findings and insights to non-technical stakeholders effectively,
  through visualizations, presentations, and reports.
• Stays up-to-date with the latest advancements in data science techniques and tools, and
  applies them to enhance our data science capabilities.
• Ensures data quality and integrity by implementing data cleaning, preprocessing, and
  validation methods.
• Collaborates and supports the Health Analytics team in ad-hoc analysis, code &
  algorithm review, or any other needed support.
• Conducts complex statistical analysis and complex reporting independently or with
  minimal supervision.
• Designs and develops data collection strategies, aggregation, analysis, and reporting to
  ensure data integrity and enhance information value
• Works collaboratively with business partners, other analysts, and IT to gather and
  integrate data from disparate sources
• Participates in design and interpretation of data analyses; provides recommendations for
  improvement of data quality and reporting.
• Maintains in-depth knowledge of health plan operations, including claims processing,
  utilization management, quality improvement activities and pay for performance
  programs.
• Critically analyzes data, draws conclusions and effectively articulates results.
• Presents data and conclusions to non-technical audience; uses data visualizations and
  summaries to highlight key findings.
• Creates and maintains thorough and consistent documentation of programs used to create
  reports and analyses.
• Manages and prioritizes workload while meeting deliverables and expectations.
• Works collaboratively across departments to understand and meet the organization’s
  analytic needs.
• Takes on various assignments, either collaboratively or independently as required.

All HealthPlan employees are expected to:

• Provide the highest possible level of service to clients;
• Promote teamwork and cooperative effort among employees;
• Maintain safe practices; and
• Abide by the HealthPlan’s policies and procedures as they may from time to time be updated.

HIRING RANGE:

$136,296.78 - $177,185.82

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER NOTICE

The job duties, elements, responsibilities, skills, functions, experience, educational factors and the requirements and conditions listed in this job description are representative only and not exhaustive of the tasks that an employee may be required to perform.  The employer reserves the right to revise this job description at any time and to require employees to perform other tasks as circumstances or conditions of its business, competitive considerations, or work environment change.