Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Cap-Exempt H-1B Position — No lottery required
UPMC Health Plan has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Data Scientist position in the Medicare department. This is a full time position working Monday through Friday daylight hours and will be a hybrid position consisting of working from home and in office. The Senior Data Scientist develops, implements, and monitors advanced analytic, medical informatics, and predictive modeling tools for health care programs. **Responsibilities:** - Design, develop, and implement health care analytic and biomedical modeling programs. - Converse with and guide the selection and use of modeling software and programs. - Serves as a consultant to ensure coordination in systems planning, development, and implementation between utilization management and other areas needing reporting, development, information systems, and external organizations. - Implements plans for capturing and creating new data elements to support department needs. - Defines methodologies for reporting and evaluates software requirements needed to support analytic reporting. - Identifies staffing needs to enhance modeling and reporting abilities and participates in recruitment. - Collaborates with Health Plan and Health System data scientists, as needed. - Lead the development and deployment of advanced machine learning models. - Oversee the end-to-end data science process, from data collection to model deployment. - Mentor and guide junior data scientists and analysts. - Collaborate with senior leadership to identify and prioritize data science projects. - Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. - If needed, create and/or maintain documentation of a data dictionary to ensure that data is used efficiently and effectively, to help promote better data governance, improve data quality, and enhance data management processes. - Ph.D. or Master's degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, or a related field with 4 years of relevant experience. OR A Bachelor's degree with 7 year