Senior Data Scientist (WH) - Work from Home Opportunity

Key Skills

Design of Experiment, Java Programming, Python Programming, R Programming, SPARK Programming, SQL

Job Description

This role can be based at 433 W Van Buren Street, Chicago or as a remote work from home arrangement.

Market pressures are pushing towards a consumer-centric, technology-enabled, healthcare ecosystem. Horizon 3 (H3) will transform healthcare by addressing these needs through a personalized, physical and digital healthcare platform. We believe creating a simple, delightful experience for users will improve health outcomes and lower costs for the entire system. Backed by WBA and with the direct consumer access of Walgreens, H3 has a head start on the typical technology startup – and is building a leading team to use the resources of WBA to disrupt US healthcare.

Applies highly complex advanced data analysis tools and techniques to provide insights and actionable recommendations for the business. Utilizes highly complex statistical modeling to make predictions about future outcomes and in multiple scenarios. Explains findings to business audience.

Job Responsiblilities:

• Responsible for applying highly complex advanced data analysis tools and techniques to provide insights and actionable recommendations for the business
• Utilizes highly complex statistical modeling to make predictions about future outcomes and in multiple scenarios.
• Interprets and applies data in highly-complex analyses, and explains findings to business audiences to improve products and processes.
• Implements multiple and/or highly complex statistical and mathematical analyses to support business decision making for multiple business functions.
• Develops and/or uses algorithms and statistical predictive models and determines analytical approaches and modeling techniques to evaluate scenarios and potential future outcomes.
• Applies analytical rigor and statistical methods to analyze large amounts of data, using advanced statistical techniques such as predictive statistical models, customer profiling, segmentation analysis, survey design and analysis and data mining.
• Documents projects including business objectives, data gathering and processing, leading approaches, final algorithm, detailed set of results and analytical metrics.
• Develops materials to explain project findings.
• Typically assigned to important / complicated undertakings.
• Anticipates and prevents problems and roadblocks before they occur.
• Interacts with internal and external peers and managers to exchange complex information related to areas of specialization.
• Mentors less experienced members of the team. Provides guidance regarding analytical approach and iteration of algorithms.

Basic Qualifications

• Master’s degree and at least 2 years of experience in quantitative or computational functions; or computational functions
• Advanced knowledge of open source data science and statistics packages such as Python, R, Spark, etc.
• Experience in data science, advanced analytics, or statistics.
• Knowledge of algorithm development.
• Experience interrogating data, performing analyses, interpreting data, and presenting findings to business audiences.
• Experience presenting to all levels of an organization
• Willing to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in a quantitative, computational or technical discipline
• Experience establishing and maintaining key relationships with internal (peers, business partners and leadership) and external (business community, clients and vendors) within a matrix organization to ensure quality standards for service.
• Experience diagnosing, isolating, and resolving complex business issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems.