Sr. Data Scientist

at  The Cigna Group

Are you passionate about healthcare, machine learning, and predictive analytics and looking for an opportunity to strive to help make prescription drug costs predictable for the average American?
Job Description: The role will report to the Actuarial Analytics practice and will utilize various data tools to architect data science solutions within the Medicare market and PBM Health space. The role will be best suited for candidates with strong Machine Learning (ML), and data science background interest in working to help solve problems that will matrix and allow for development to understand the background in the Medicare Part D space to develop robust drug trends, clinical disease, and drug management solutions.
The role allows for deep dive into existing actuarial analyses for the drug landscape spanning governmental drug and medical programs.

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE?

• Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, or other quantitative fields strongly preferred
• 4+ years of data science, ML, or predictive analytics experience
• Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM), healthcare or pharmaceutical experience preferred
• Understanding of fundamental health care and Medicare knowledge preferred
• Proven capabilities in modeling, forecasting, and predictive analytics
• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Ability to gather and analyze information to aid in the growth of existing businesses and the building of new businesses
• Coding skills in either SQL / SAS required, Python / R other languages preferred

Understanding of structured data and ML models:

• Experience with deep learning frameworks (like TensorFlow or PyTorch ) preferred
• Industry or academic experience working on a range of ML problems.
• Strong data science skills with a focus on building sound and scalable ML
• A real passion for finding, analyzing, and incorporating the latest research, technologies, and techniques directly into a production environment.
• Understanding of neural networks preferred

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.