IT Data Scientist II

You could be the one who changes everything for our 28 million members by using technology to improve health outcomes around the world. As a diversified, national organization, Centene's technology professionals have access to competitive benefits including a fresh perspective on workplace flexibility.

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Position Purpose :

Assists with the design and development of scalable solutions using AI tools and machine-learning models. Performs research and testing to develop machine learning algorithms and predictive models. Utilizes big data computation and storage tools to create prototypes and datasets. Conducts model training and evaluation. Integrates, tests, tunes, and monitors solutions.

• Works alongside internal customers that are requesting AI / ML capabilities to understand overall business objective & impact when requesting an AI / ML model.
• Analyzes use cases of ML algorithms and applies findings to enable business decisions by deriving insights through data visualization.
• Writes moderately complex SQL and Python / R code to extract data from a variety of databases and data sources.
• Explores and visualizes data to gain an understanding of it and verify data quality, and / or ensure data quality via data cleaning.
• Conducts exploratory data analysis from complex data sources and builds key data sets to support company mission operational analysis.
• Builds ML / AI models using common methods within R and Python.
• Analyzes the ML algorithms that could be used to solve a given problem and ranks them by their success probability.
• Develops AI / ML models to distinguish relevant content or events and recognize patterns.
• Analyzes errors of the model and designs strategies to overcome errors.
• Designs and develops AI / ML models to predict member outcomes or future impact of key member decisions.
• Evaluates and designs experiments to monitor key model metrics and identify improvement opportunities.
• Participates in presentations and communicates results of research analysis and findings to non-technical business partners.
• Produces fairness review for each developed model to ensure model is free of bias.
• Sets up continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI / CD) pipelines used for model automation.
• Develops logging, alerting, and mitigation strategies for handling model errors.
• Models deployment with containers such as Kubernetes and / or Docker.
• Produces clean & readable code that has been properly unit tested and optimized for performance.
• Completes proper deployment integration testing to ensure seamless deployment.
• Maintains and supports AI / ML patterns by reviewing and solving issues and running ML / AI models.
• Participates in team-wide initiatives that help develop templates and define best practices to improve model building and deployment workflow (ex. Model drift detection).
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.

Education / Experience :

A Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or business field (e.g., statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science). Requires 2 – 4 years of related experience, or equivalent experience acquired through accomplishments of applicable knowledge, duties, scope and skill reflective of the level of this position.

Technical Skills :

Soft Skills :

Pay Range : $83,600.00 - $155,000.00 per year.

Centene offers a comprehensive benefits package including : competitive pay, health insurance, 401K and stock purchase plans, tuition reimbursement, paid time off plus holidays, and a flexible approach to work with remote, hybrid, field or office work schedules. Actual pay will be adjusted based on an individual's skills, experience, education, and other job-related factors permitted by law. Total compensation may also include additional forms of incentives.

Centene is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and values the ways in which we are different. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex,

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Salary : $83,600 - $155,000