Lead Data Scientist

About this role

## Company :

Highmark Health

## Job Description :

JOB SUMMARY

This job builds new analytical solutions which inform business processes and operations at the heart of our advanced analytics capability. The incumbent designs, executes and synthesizes point analytics to support specific business questions, programs or initiatives. The incumbent is a data-driven problem solver who understands and utilizes the Organization's business partner’s strategies, goals and processes to answer critical business questions by leveraging and synthesizing the large volume and variety of data available to them. Draws on tools and methods from statistics , machine learning and deep learning to perform analysis, create predictive models, visualize data, and drive projects through to delivery of the intended outcome. Continuously scans and tests new data sources, tools, and analytical techniques and partners with leading institutions and experts to contribute to our portfolio of next-generation analytic projects.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

- Work directly with the business to understand their business processes and aims, then identify how analytical solutions could help deliver value for them. This would include being accountable for:
- Outlining complex new use cases + creating high level impact estimates.
- Identifying data elements needed and where to get them (including proxies).
- Assembling data sets independently using knowledge of Highmark operational and analytic data structures.
- Delivering the analytical solution to several complex business problems simultaneously.
- Documenting objectives, assumptions and processes and enriching/expanding our standards as needed

• Select and apply the appropriate advanced modeling/machine learning techniques to these data sets to deliver business insight, ensuring that the final analysis is well researched, accurate, and documented. This requires: Proficiency of a substantial number of advanced analytical tec...