Senior Data Scientist with AL/ML experience in Healthcare

InnoVet Health, a small and growing business that provides health IT professional services to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is looking for a Data Scientist with advanced analytics experience who can turn requirements and research questions into reports, clear insights, predictions, and business intelligence. The position offers stimulating advanced analytics activities (AI/ML/NLP), in a rich healthcare environment, interacting with senior staff. This position is full-time and does not require relocating (work remotely). The pay, benefits, and growth potential are competitive. 

Responsibilities

• Collect, elaborate, and manage requirements from VA customers. Actively participate in setting up and managing new studies. 
• Acquire and analyze raw data: assessing quality, profiling, cleansing, performing exploratory data analysis. 
• Design and develop diagnostic and predictive models and machine learning algorithms (e.g., logistic regression, random forest, decision tree, etc.) using large data sets. Train and evaluate these models using strong statistical knowledge. 
• Deploy models to operational settings with understanding of the providers workflows 
• Interpret and present results to providers and business customers 
• Manage relationship with VA client 
• Contribute to InnoVet Health growth activities 

Qualifications

• BS degree in data science, statistics, or computer/information science or similar area a minimum 
• 3-5+ years of advanced data analysis (AI/ML) experience 
• Proven experience in statistics, AI, and Machine Learning applications 
• Knowledge of Python, R, Scala, and associated libraries. 
• Depth and breadth in text representation techniques, NLP frameworks, and statistics.
• Proficiency in visualization tools (PowerBI, ggplot, seaborn) 
• Excellent problem-solving, collaboration and communication (verbal and writing) skills with fluency in MS Office. Passion for continuous learning as data science evolves. 
• Healthcare, research, and consulting experience preferred 
• Green card or US citizen required. 
• Please no 1099 or corp-to-corp or international outsourcing or staffing agencies. 

Salary: commensurate with experience

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus pay

Application Question(s):

• This position requires either U.S. Citizenship or valid Green Card. Please answer 2 if you are a US citizen, 1 if you have a valid green card, 0 if neither. Please make sure to answer this question.

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• Programing: 5 years (Preferred)
• Data visualization: 10 years (Preferred)
• Healthcare data science: 2 years (Preferred)
• Data science: 6 years (Required)
• NLP: 5 years (Preferred)
• AI/ML in healthcare: 5 years (Required)
• ETL and SQL: 3 years (Required)
• Non-Academic work: 6 years (Required)