Senior Data Science Engineer

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Job ID

103016

Location

Aurora

Position Type

Regular

Regular / Temporary

Regular

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Job Overview

The Data Science Engineer will lead the design, deployment, and integration of predictive models and AI solutions at Children's Hospital Colorado. Responsibilities include building production pipelines, embedding models into clinical and administrative workflows, and transforming prototypes into secure, scalable applications aligned with best practices and standards. This role also provides technical oversight for emerging agentic AI capabilities, ensuring safe and effective automation. Additionally, the position supports commercialization efforts for CHCO-developed tools and informs strategic technology decisions by monitoring technology trends and identifying new opportunities.

By bridging data science innovation with operational execution, this role accelerates delivery and value to CHCO's decision makers, patients, and families.

Additional Information

Hours per week : 40 eligible for benefits

Shift : Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm. Work hours may vary based on the needs of the department. Limited on call may be required to support critical deployed models.

• This is a hybrid position.

Duties & Responsibilities

Analyzes, designs, builds, modifies, implements, tests and debugs new or existing software applications, architectures, databases, and systems integration to automate business processes, as applicable.

Prepares time lines, project plans and flow charts for the development or enhancement of new and existing software application programs.

Provides enterprise level application design guidance and consultation. Collaborates with development team, business intelligence, manager, customers and project managers to develop requirements, applications, systems, data warehouse and database requirements to meet organizational and end user needs. Provides recommendations regarding configuration, design, usability and maintainability for services, applications, interfaces and other dependencies that integrate with platforms.

Gathers, analyzes and documents complex business and user requirements, functional requirements and data specifications.

Designs, writes and documents technical specifications to design or redesign complex applications.

Collaborates with applications staff and users of information systems to evaluate, plan, design, develop, test, implement, and maintain application development efforts and / or reports. Works with applications staff to translate and document user needs and system requirements into report specification and / or technical documents. Integrates data between multiple systems for reporting as necessary.

Performs database tuning and configuring; developing backup and recovery processes, repeatable methods to refresh non-production environments from production, data life-cycle management, and system upgrades. Writes stored procedures, packages, and functions.

Designs and develops complex processes required to extract, transform, cleanse and load data into the enterprise data warehouse and data marts. Develops solutions to address data warehouse query performance and quality issues including data profiling, development, enhancement, and technical standards. Ensures reporting systems are maintained, and supported during system and database upgrades and modifications.

Recommends, develops and creates peripheral technologies and IT processes in support of application platforms.

Recommends, develops, documents and maintains software coding and development standards, principles and practices.

Troubleshoots complex performance and system availability problems ensuring quality of the enterprise application and / or data warehouse. Consults with end users and information technology staff to identify user problems.

Designs, develops, tests, debugs, implements, and prepares flow charts for both new and existing systems. May assist lower level developers in the development of complex applications and coding.

Serves as a technical resource for modeling, simulation and analysis efforts. Verifies program logic by overseeing the preparation of test data, testing and debugging of programs.

Participates in Production Support on-call rotation as necessary

Minimum Qualifications

EDUCATION - Bachelor's degree is required.

EXPERIENCE - Minimum of five (5) years of related experience is required.

EQUIVALENCY - Combination of post-high school education, job related certification, and / or related experience equivalent to nine (9) years may be considered in lieu of minimum requirements.

Salary Information

Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience.

Annual Salary Range (Based on 40 hours worked per week) : $109,636.42 to $164,454.63

Benefits Information

Here, you matter. As a Children's Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical / dental / vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children's Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.

EEO Statement

It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information. The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.

Colorado Residents : In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.