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Senior Data Scientist

About Blue Cross

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is one of the most recognized and trusted health care brands in the world with 2.5 million members. We’re committed to reinventing health care to improve health for our members and the community. We hope you'll join us.

How is this Role Important to Our Work?

This position works across the Enterprise to identify areas of opportunities to build process efficiencies, innovate and contribute using sophisticated analytics and data science. The position will manage sophisticated data and information to provide meaningful results, which influence strategic decision-making at Blue Cross. Responsibilities include understand sophisticated complex business requirements, data management and stewardship for sophisticated-data sources, data analysis and advanced analytical techniques, and building predictive models to bring value for the organization.

A Day in the Life:

Take lead on data science projects to craft and implement models and experiments from end to end, including data ingestion and preparation, feature engineering, analysis and modeling, model deployment, performance tracking and documentation.
Lead-by-example junior data scientists around mature data science practices e.g., readable code, detailed documentation, comprehensive experimentation.
Work with business partners to convert ambiguous business problems in clear data science/ML specifications. Use contextual business sense to convert model predictions/results into impactful insights and provide concrete mentorship on risks and limitations.
Drive conversations with product managers, data engineers, and subject matter experts to ship new models, algorithms and improvements continuously and collaboratively into production.
Use combination of machine learning knowledge and contextual eye for business to convert results into impactful insights and provide concrete mentorship on risks and limitations of model.
Write narrative documents for model specification and performance analysis to communicate findings and recommendations to teammates, collaborators and executive leadership.

Nice to Have:

Bachelor's degree.
Experience with health care data
Experience with SAS, SQL, R, Python
Experience with public health program evaluation
Experience with AWS tools
Experience with version control (for example Git Version Control system)

Role Designation:

Teleworker

Role designation definition: Teleworking is working full time remote. Hybrid is a combination of working onsite and remotely. Onsite is full-time onsite.

Make a difference

Blue Cross is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer that values diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, disability, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Reasonable Accommodation for Job Seekers with a Disability: If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to talent.acquisition@bluecrossmn.com.

All roles require a high school diploma (or equivalency) and legal authorization to work in the U.S.

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