Principal Data Scientist

Key Skills

Data Analytics

Job Description

Looking for opportunities to use cutting edge technologies analyzing petabytes of data in a world class Hadoop cluster? Interested in generating analytical insights that inform provider networks and engagement strategies that support members on their individualized health and wellness journey? Aetna's Provider & Network Analytics team delivers strategically impactful programs and tools that expand convenient access to high-quality and affordable care for all members across multiple channels across all stages of life.
At Aetna, we’re pioneering a total approach to health and wellness. As a Data Scientist on the Analytics & Behavior Change team, you’ll build industry-leading analytics, data, and technology platforms to help reimagine health care. This position will play a critical role within a cross-functional team, delivering powerful solutions that inform network strategy and design, improve network performance and provider engagement, develop new provider offerings, and enhance consumer experience.
You will be part of a fast-paced, innovative, collaborative team, helping solve problems, drive impact, and deliver key insights to our customers by leveraging innovations in data science, machine & deep learning, and predictive modeling techniques. You will derive meaning from data and deploy robust solutions through provider-directed engagement channels (e.g., digital) that helps consumers identify affordable care, when they need it, and with whom.
Fundamental Components

• Provides strategic leadership for the development, validation and delivery of algorithms, statistical models and reporting tools.
• Acts as the analytic team lead for highly complex projects involving multiple resources and tasks, providing individual mentoring in support of company objectives.
• Leads development and execution of new and/or highly complex algorithms and statistical predictive models and determines analytical approaches and modeling techniques to evaluate scenarios and potential future outcomes.
• Establishes analytical rigor and statistical methods to analyze large amounts of data, using advanced statistical techniques and mathematical analyses.
• Manages highly complex analytical projects from data exploration, model building, performance evaluation and testing.
• Applies in-depth knowledge of systems and products to consult and advise on additional efforts across organization/enterprise. Motivates team members and probes into technical details, and mentors others to do the same.
• Provides thought leadership and direction for analytic solutions, tools and studies.
• Anticipates and solves strategic and high-risk business problems with broad impact on the business area by applying leading-edge theories and techniques to investigate problems, detect patterns and recommend solutions.
• Provides guidance to develop enterprise-wide analytics strategy and roadmap.
• Interacts with internal and external peers and management to share highly complex information/solutions related to areas of expertise and/or to gain acceptance of new or enhanced technology/ business solutions.
  Required Qualifications
• Minimum 10 years total of business experience
• 5+ years of business experience leading analyses and initiatives with track record of business impact.
• 5+ years of people management experience
• 5+ years of experience strategy consulting or on strategy teams in large companies
• Strong knowledge of advanced analytics tools and languages to analyze large data sets from multiple data sources.
• Anticipates and prevents problems and roadblocks before they occur.
• Healthcare sector experience preferred
• Demonstrates strong ability to communicate technical concepts and implications to business partners.
• Bachelor’s degree in quantitative field, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience.
• Master's degree in quantitative field or MBA strongly preferred.

Job ID: 1467897BR