Data Scientist

Company: Florida Blue
Location: Jacksonville
Posted on: January 15, 2021

Job Description:

Data Scientists produce innovative solutions driven by exploratory data analysis from complex and high-dimensional datasets. They apply knowledge of statistics, data modeling, and advanced mathematics to recognize patterns, identify opportunities, pose business questions, and make valuable discoveries. Data Scientists use a flexible, analytical approach to design, develop, and evaluate predictive models, and generate and test hypotheses.

Communication & Project Ownership

• Support large projects, and manage smaller projects in their entirety
• Partner with senior team members to assess customer needs and define business questions. Emerging ability to influence customers to take action on analytical insights.
• Communicate results and insights, both verbally and written (including visual graphics), in a clear and concise manner to a non-technical audience.
• Work on multiple concurrent projects and accommodate frequent interruptions and changing priorities
• Effectively participate in meetings with customers and emerging ability to guide discussion and decision making.
• Contribute to technical reports, white papers, and publications.
  Data Analysis
  
  • Acquire and bring structure to data so that it can be used in existing and new data systems.
  • Build tools that help you and the other Data Scientists translate insights into action at scale.
  • Identify, define and translate business needs/problems into analytical questions.
  • Design and execute experiments, models, algorithms, and visualizations
  • Understand data sources and limitations, warehousing system and the impact of the data on business decisions.
  • Identify, retrieve, and manipulate data from internal and external datasets.
  • Apply statistical and computational methodologies to provide actionable insights and identify opportunities that optimize quality, consumer experience, and healthcare costs.
  • Develop scalable, efficient, and automated processes for large scale data analyses and model development, validation, and implementation
    Preferred Qualifications
    
    • Master's degree Applied Mathematics, Computer science (e.g. specialization: Machine learning/Artificial Intelligence /Visualization, databases, and Big Data), Statistics, Epidemiology, Health Services Research, or closely related field with Data Science specialization
    • Experience in Big Data - e.g. Hadoop
    • Business Intelligence tool development
    • Other programming experience - Java, Perl, Python, UNIX/Linux scripting
    • Healthcare, medical, or pharmaceutical work experience
    • Experience with analysis around quality, consumer experience, and healthcare costs
      Required Qualifications
      
      • 2+ years related work experience or equivalent combination of transferable experience and education Advanced analytics or similar role
      • Bachelor's degree or additional related equivalent work experience Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Computer science (e.g. specialization: Machine learning/Artificial Intelligence /Visualization, databases, and Big Data), Statistics, Epidemiology, Health Services Research, or closely related field with Data Science specialization
      • 1yr experience with programming such as Python or Java
      • 3 years experience with statistical packages such as SAS, SAS EG, and SAS EM, 1 yr of R or Python
      • Expert proficiency in SQL
      • Applied experience with advanced analytics e.g. predictive analytics models
      • Ability to communicate results and insights, both verbally and written (including visual graphics), in a clear and concise manner to a non-technical audience.
        We are interested in every qualified applicant who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor VISAs at this time.
        
        We are an Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veteran/Disabled. Associated topics: data analyst, data analytic, data management, data quality, database administrator, erp, mongo database administrator, sql, sybase, teradata

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