Principal Data Scientist

Principal Data Scientist

BCforward is currently seeking a highly motivated Principal Data Scientist for a Remote opportunity!

Position Title: Principal Data Scientist

Location: Iowa (Remote)

Anticipated Start Date: 1/13/2024

Please note this is the target date and is subject to change. BCforward will send official notice ahead of a confirmed start date.

Expected Duration: 6+ months contract.

Job Type: [FULL TIME (>%3D40 HRS WEEKLY) [CONTRACT], [Remote]

Pay Range: $38.93-$40.11/hr. only on W2

Please note that actual compensation may vary within this range due to factors such as location, experience, and job responsibilities, and does not encompass additional non-standard compensation (e.g., benefits, paid time off, per diem, etc.).

Job Description:

• Deftly and innovatively integrates substantial healthcare expertise; business acumen; the scientific methodology of quasi-experimentation with repurposed data and the tools of the data science craft, data ingesting; data cleansing; feature engineering; data filtering and aggregating; statistical estimation and hypothesis testing; machine learning and iterative development and continuous production integration and deployment.
• To envision and bring to timely; extensible fruition; a growing portfolio of data science work products that advance the mission of Medicaid clients.
• Additionally, a Principal Data Scientist mentors less experienced team members to develop their craft.
• To understand costs and benefits in defining and evangelizing programmatic data science for Medicaid clients.
• This position requires solid prior experience with healthcare data along with a completed course of post-graduate training in a healthcare discipline.

  Must Have:

• Expert knowledge of SQL queries to process large amounts of data in a set-based fashion.
• Thorough understanding of various SQL windowing functions through regular use.
• Solid understanding of indexing; stored procedures; materialized views; etc.
• Has worked with datasets 10+B rows in size; many of them ugly/messy.
• Solid python; including having developed complex object-oriented designs.
• Solid knowledge of Repeated Measures/ Time Series/ Mixed Level Random Effects Statistical Estimation; Machine Learning; Overfit; False Discovery; etc.
• Strong focus on Explainable Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
• Experience working toward replicable causal inference in repurposed data.
• Solid experience with the use of Dev\Sec\Ops procedures tools for iterative development and CI/CD.
• Main-stream BI dashboarding tools such as Power BI; Tableau; SAS; etc.
• Performance Optimization for Data Science development and production.
• Use of a Massively Parallel Database Environment.
• Understands how to optimize data models for MPP with distribution keys and schemes.
• Knowledge of Semi-Structured and Unstructured data; schema-on-read; parsers; NLP packages.
• Medical Training/ Experience in Practice.
• Solid Experience Deriving Insights from Healthcare data.
• Experience doing Data Science leveraging the elasticity in a major Cloud environment.
• Comfort-level presentation to business stakeholders and executives.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; and mentoring skills as well Frequently Occurring Plusses This Level.
• Working knowledge of stacks and CQRS data structures; and state machines that use them.
• Has used Data Bricks for Data Science - knowledge of Scala a plus.
• Actuarial training and experience.
• Functional Programming.

Benefits:

BCforward offers all eligible employees a comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to major medical, HSA, dental, vision, employer-provided group life, voluntary life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and 401k.

Keywords:

SQL, Python, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

About BCforward:

Founded in 1998 on the idea that industry leaders needed a professional service, and workforce management expert, to fuel the development and execution of core business and technology strategies, BCforward is a Black-owned firm providing unique solutions supporting value capture and digital product delivery needs for organizations around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN with an Offshore Development Center in Hyderabad, India, BCforward's 6,000 consultants support more than 225 clients globally.

BCforward champions the power of human potential to help companies transform, accelerate, and scale. Guided by our core values of People-Centric, Optimism, Excellence, Diversity, and Accountability, our professionals have helped our clients achieve their strategic goals for more than 25 years. Our strong culture and clear values have enabled BCforward to become a market leader and best in class place to work.

BCforward is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.

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Interested candidates please send resume in Word format Please reference job code 233782 when responding to this ad.

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