Senior IT Data Scientist

About this role

You could be the one who changes everything for our 28 million members by using technology to improve health outcomes around the world. As a diversified, national organization, Centene's technology professionals have access to competitive benefits including a fresh perspective on workplace flexibility.


Position Purpose:
Designs and develops of scalable solutions using AI tools and machine-learning models. Performs research and testing to develop machine learning algorithms and predictive models. Utilizes big data computation and storage tools to create prototypes and datasets. Conducts model training and evaluation. Integrates, tests, tunes, and monitors solutions.

• Participates in model brainstorming conversations with new potential internal customers interested in AI/ML capabilities
• Works alongside internal customers that are requesting AI/ML capabilities to understand overall business objective & impact when requesting an AI/ML model
• Analyzes use cases of ML algorithms and apply findings to enable business decisions by deriving insights through data visualization
• Writing moderately complex SQL and Python/R code to extract data from a variety of databases and data sources
• Explores and visualizes data to gain an understanding of it and verify data quality, and/or ensure data quality via data cleaning
• Conduct exploratory data analysis from complex data sources and build key data sets to support company mission operational analysis.
• Builds ML/AI models using common methods within R and Python
• Analyzes the ML algorithms that could be used to solve a given problem and rank them by their success probability
• Analyzes errors of the model and design strategies to overcome errors
• Develop logging, alerting, and mitigation strategies for handling model errors
• Development of AI/ML models to distinguish relevant content or events and recognize patterns
• Designs and develops AI/ML models to predict member outcomes or future impact of key me...