Director, Data Science

Zelis
Morristown, NJ
Full-time

Requirements

  • Experience in identifying and resolving complex technical and operational problems within data science department.
  • Experience in implementation of GenAI use cases in healthcare industry.
  • Ability to understand business requirements and communicate modeling results to the top business leaders, executives, and non-technical audience in a meaningful way.
  • Must be a , demonstrating an ability to form strong and meaningful connections with team members, product owners, business stakeholders and cross functional teams.
  • Be a hands-on individual contributor for critical projects when required in handling modeling techniques and interpretation of results.
  • Experience in analyzing and manipulating large, complex, high-dimensional data from numerous sources and building ML / AI predictive models by understanding the data science life cycle.
  • Experience in handling unstructured data and utilizing to derive insights using ML algorithms
  • Demonstrated experience in statistical modeling techniques such as NLP, linear regression, logistic regression, cluster analysis, feature reduction, LLM, Autoencoders, transformers, outlier detection methodologies , deep learning algorithms, Gen AI algorithms etc.
  • Aptitude in performing multiple tasks and dealing with changing deadline requirements. This includes knowing when to escalate issues.

Maintains a focused, flexible, organized, and proactive manner.

  • Experience in working with data science engineers in extraction of the data required for the modeling, understanding the data, handling data quality issues and model monitoring.
  • Experience in working with MLOps team to productionalize the algorithms and test the model output .
  • Required to work with offshore team members (Mornings EST) , in leading the projects, acting as a SME in driving the algorithm development as per the business use case and finalizing the models with high quality and validation.

Preferred qualifications :

  • Master’s or Doctorate degree in data science / machine learning / statistics / computer science or equivalent with a background in statistics
  • 10+ years of relevant work experience including statistical modeling and data mining using large and complex datasets, mostly on healthcare data
  • 5+ years of management experience , in managing data scientists.
  • Health care experience
  • AWS / Azure cloud experience in implementing data science models
  • Gen AI experience
  • Proficient in Python

We have offices in Atlanta GA, Boston MA, Morristown NJ, Plano TX, St. Louis MO, St. Petersburg FL, and Hyderabad, India.

We foster a hybrid and remote friendly culture and all of our employee's work locations are based on the needs of the position and determined by the Leadership team.

In-office work and activities, if applicable, vary based on the work and team objectives in accordance with Company policies.

30+ days ago
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