Company name
Humana Inc.
Location
Tulsa, OK, United States
Employment Type
Full-Time
Industry
Sciences, Scientist, Finance
Posted on
Apr 16, 2021
Profile
Description
The Lead Data Scientist uses mathematics, statistics, modeling, business analysis, and technology to transform high volumes of complex data into advanced analytic solutions. The Lead Data Scientist works on problems of diverse scope and complexity ranging from moderate to substantial.
Responsibilities
Location: work at home anywhere
The Clinical Trend and Analytics team leverages advanced scientific techniques, forecasting, and machine learning to predict financial and clinical outcomes in order to guide investments that improve health outcomes and reduce costs. In this exciting start-up environment, you'll have the opportunity to develop data science processes from the ground up and work directly with decision-making executives to shape the future of Humana's most important strategic initiatives.
As the Lead Data Scientist, you will collaborate with clinical leaders, program owners, and other analytic resources to set objectives, approaches, and work plans. You will research, build, and evaluate new statistical methodologies to assess causal relationships between clinical risk factors and a variety of health outcomes. These findings will be incorporated into the work Humana does to improve the health and wellbeing of Humana's members. You will package your results and communicate them to technical and non-technical business partners and executive decision-makers.
Responsibilities
Influence organizational strategy by championing innovative ideas with analytical teams, business partners, and clinicians. You are recognized as a leader who helps drive results for both the analytics organization as well as our business partners.
Support our key business partners within Humana's Enterprise Clinical Management organization to find opportunities to improve health outcomes and lower healthcare costs
Gain trust and respect by measuring, validating and explaining your results, taking ownership of the end-to-end
Required Qualifications
6 or more years of professional experience leveraging large sets of structured and unstructured healthcare data
Experience leading large data science projects, managing requirements across stakeholders to define the analytic approach and technical solutions
Demonstrated ability to handle multiple projects, manage expectations, and deliver results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
Ability to scope, frame, and deliver data analyses that leverage large datasets including medical claims, pharmacy claims, and/or laboratory results
Demonstrated understanding of advanced statistical methods used to estimate causal relationships in observational data
Demonstrated ability to bring together and combine disparate datasets
Demonstrated ability to develop a nuanced study designs that are used to answer specific clinical questions
Clear oral and written communication skills. Experience interpreting and communicating results of complex analyses to technical and non-technical business partners and executive decision makers
Preferred Qualifications
Strong business acumen, including a deep understanding of healthcare payer economics
Demonstrated familiarity with clinical concepts related to a broad range of clinical conditions and disease states - experience with oncology, behavioral health and chronic conditions would be particularly valuable
Master's or PhD Degree in a quantitative discipline such as Economics, Epidemiology, Clinical Informatics, and/or related fields. Clinical degrees also preferred.
Experience developing and validating machine learning models and tools
Experience with cloud-based ecosystems (GCP, AWS, Azure, Databricks)
Experience working in Agile environments
Experience working with EMR data
Additional Information
Humana is an organization with careers that change lives-including yours. As an innovator in the fast-paced industry of healthcare, we offer our associates careers that challenge, support and inspire them to use their passion for helping others and to lead their best lives. If you're ready to help people achieve lifelong well-being, and be a part of an organization that is growing and poised to make an impact on the future of healthcare, Humana has the right opportunity for you.
Scheduled Weekly Hours
40
Company info
Humana Inc.
Website : http://www.humana.com