Healthcare Data Scientist – Machine Learning / AI, Statistics Operations Research

Job Description

Serve as member of Advanced Data Science group to support UMMS’s strategic priority to become a data-driven and outcomes-oriented organization. Principal responsibilities and tasks include :

• Support analytic efforts designed around the organization’s strategic priorities and clinical / business problems, including operations, supply chain, human resources, and finance.
• Develop predictive (machine learning and deep learning approaches / algorithms) and prescriptive (mathematical optimization and simulation) analytic models in support of the organization’s clinical, operations and business initiatives and priorities.
• Formulate and solve complex mathematical optimization problems using exact and heuristic approaches.
• Perform exploratory data analysis and advanced statistical analysis (e.g., regression analysis, cluster analysis, factor analysis, ANOVA).
• Design and prototype new application functionality for products.
• Deploy solutions so that they provide actionable insights to the organization and are embedded or integrated with application systems.
• Work with the analytics team and clinical / business stakeholders to develop pilots so that they may be tested and validated in pilot / incubator settings.
• Perform statistical analysis to evaluate primary and secondary objectives from such pilots.
• Support development of strategic, tactical and operational presentations that summarize the results of predictive and prescriptive analytics projects in support of robust strategies for the organization.
• Build and extend analytics portfolio supported by robust documentation.
• Work in a team to drive disruptive innovation, which may translate into improved quality of care, clinical outcomes, reduced costs, temporal efficiencies and process improvements.
• Assist leadership with strategies for scaling successful projects across the organization, and enhance the analytics applications based on feedback from end-users and clinical / business consumers.
• Assist leadership with dissemination of success stories (and failures) in an effort to increase analytics literacy and adoption across the organization.
• Work with autonomy to find solutions to complex problems using open source tools and in-house development.
• Stay abreast of state-of-the-art literature in the fields of machine learning / AI, operations research, statistical modeling, statistical process control and mathematical optimization.
• Up to 5% domestic travel.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

Compensation : $125,000 to $145,000 per year

Benefits : Health, vision, dental, and life insurance, 403(b) retirement plan, paid time off, educational assistance, employee assistance program, and employee discounts.

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