Principal II – Data Scientist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Create innovative solutions and thought leadership publications/patents through exploratory analysis of complex, high-dimensional datasets.

• Utilize statistics, machine learning, programming, data modeling, simulation, and advanced mathematics to uncover patterns and opportunities.

• Design, develop, and assess methodologies and advanced algorithms for analytics that are clinically and operationally significant.

• Deploy healthcare datasets, including electronic health records, administrative billing, and post-adjudicated claims.

• Collaborate with subject matter experts, academic institutions, members, and product engineers to transform prototypes into products, services, and features.

• Identify innovative methodologies and AI/ML strategies to enhance the quality and efficiency of healthcare systems.

• Provide leadership and implementation frameworks for large-scale product development.

• Act as a subject matter expert across business domains such as Cost, Clinical, and MDM.

• Engage in data exploration and conceptual design for strategic initiatives.

• Generate and test hypotheses and interpret results from product experiments.

• Lead meetings for gathering requirements with business/customers and IT teams.

• Analyze business requirements and challenges, design solutions, and propose recommendations.

• Translate user needs into clinically relevant methodologies and products.

• Develop features and user stories for product backlogs.

• Produce peer-reviewed publications and prepare patent submissions.

• Present groundbreaking work at conferences and symposiums.

• Offer data science guidance, demonstrations, and presentations to colleagues, clients, and management.

• Provide mentoring and training sessions.

• Create project estimates and work plans, while evolving best practices and processes for data operations.

• Review deliverables from team members.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience.

• A Bachelor’s degree is required.

• Extensive experience in business and healthcare analytics.

• Strong expertise in statistics, simulation, and advanced mathematics.

• Experience in data search and matching.

• Proven experience in facilitating requirements gathering and analysis with customers.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.

• Experience with healthcare research involving large patient datasets.

• Background in software design and development.

• Familiarity with AI and machine learning.

• Documented success publishing as the first or lead author in high-impact peer-reviewed journals.

• Experience in submitting patent applications.

• Skills in customer engagement, collaboration, and conflict management.

• Experience in teaching a related subject in a university environment.

• A Master’s degree is preferred.

• Ability to remain stationary for extended periods and perform sedentary tasks.

• Adaptability to quickly change priorities, meet deadlines, and maintain attention to detail.

• Competence in operating computer programs and software.

• Effective communication skills both in person and electronically.

• Ability to make independent decisions.

• Capacity to work collaboratively in a business setting.

• Willingness to travel 1–20% within the US.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.

• 401k retirement program.

• Paid time off.

• Participation in Premier’s employee incentive plans.

• Tuition reimbursement and opportunities for professional development.

• Perks and discounts.

• Access to on-site and online exercise classes.