All about us
You likely know us as an insurance company, but that’s just a portion of what we do. Hundreds of thousands of North Dakotans trust us to provide them with personalized service and unmatched access to care. It’s a mission we take seriously.
We also work with entities throughout the state to challenge the cost and complexity of health care in North Dakota. This uncompromising goal requires caring, innovative people who are ready and willing to help create a new level of health and well-being in North Dakota and beyond.
Work environment
This opportunity is eligible for remote, hybrid or an in-office work arrangement. We empower our employees to find a work style that is best for them. Learn more at Life at Blue | BCBSND.
Pay information
Pay Level: 026
Salary range: $87,000 - $130,000 depending on experience.
FLSA Category: Exempt-Salaried
Please attach a resume and cover letter. Also, if applicable, please include a link to your GitHub repository or other portfolio showcasing your skills.
A day in the life
The Data Scientist is responsible for analyzing large and complex datasets to uncover patterns, trends, and insights that can drive business decisions, while working closely with cross-functional teams. This role will utilize statistical analysis, machine learning techniques, and programming skills to extract meaningful information from data, and develop predictive models and algorithms to solve business problems and improve decision-making processes.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Relying upon past healthcare experience, analyzes large datasets to identify trends, patterns, and insights that can inform decision-making and strategic initiatives.
- Collaborates with cross-functional teams, including marketing, sales, healthcare providers, and IT, to understand business needs and translate them into data-driven solutions.
- Assists in data collection, cleaning, and preprocessing.
- Develops hypotheses about the business problem and uses modeling techniques to test them.
- Performs exploratory data analysis to uncover patterns and insights and understand data.
- Using Python or R, develops and tests moderate to complex models to solve business problems by maximizing accuracy and minimizing bias.
- Conducts routine checks for model drift and retrains models as needed.
- Supports senior data scientists in larger projects and research tasks.
- Assists and mentors jr. data scientists in their work.
- Communicates findings and recommendations to stakeholders through reports, visualizations, and presentations.
- Stays updated with the latest industry trends and technologies in data science.
- Performs work under general supervision. Handles moderately complex issues and problems and refers more complex issues to higher-level staff.
- Uses knowledge of MLOps to version, deploy and monitor trained models in production. Experience with Vetiver, Apache or other similar frameworks is required.
What you need to succeed
- A Master's degree in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field.
- We will consider both educational achievements and relevant work experience in our evaluation of candidates. Your application will still be considered if you hold a degree other than a Master’s degree.
- 3 years of experience in programming languages (such as Python, R, and SQL), data visualization tools (such as Tableau and Shiny), and machine learning algorithms and statistical methods.
- Experience in healthcare is strongly preferred.
- Be a problem solver who is willing to dive into different projects and provide different solutions.
- Comfortable with presenting data to different areas of the business.
- Have a collaborative and analytical approach with stakeholders and with the data analytics team.
Equivalent combination of education, experience or training determined to be acceptable by Human Resources may be substituted, unless regulated by contract or program standards
Benefits and perks
- Wellness incentives including well-being lifestyle spending accounts, employee assistance program and employee discounts.
- Encouraged paid time off including paid holidays and flexible holidays to use as you wish.
- 16 hours of paid volunteer time with a $200 donation to a charity of your choice upon completion of all volunteer hours.
- Employee recognition, community initiative events and yearly company outings.
- Workplace flexibility offering different options for working arrangements and the freedom to make time for important commitments.
- Our core benefits include health, dental, vision and life insurance, short-term and long-term disability and paid parental leave.
Equal opportunity employment
Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans and Individual with Disabilities, as well as Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity.
For questions, please email careers@bcbsnd.com.
This job posting will be closed 8/27/2024 at 8:00 a.m. (CT). No further applications will be considered.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
