Data Science Senior Advisor (Pricing & Underwriting) - Remote

Summary

Using your knowledge of statistics, healthcare, and ML / AI you will build models to help identify opportunities for our pricing and underwriting partners.

You will perform feature engineering, model development, and model monitoring / maintenance using a broad range of medical, prescription drug, utilization management, and third-party data.

In this role you will work closely with leadership, data scientists, business stakeholders and engineering partners to deliver robust well-documented deliverables that will enhance our competitive position in the marketplace.

Responsibilities


* Contribute to the development of comprehensive analytics that facilitate best in class pricing and underwriting


* Execute special projects that can improve Commercial Healthcare underwriting


* Utilize data science and advanced analytics to create actionable insights and recommendations for business leaders to advance Cigna's strategic objectives


* Regularly communicate work with business stakeholders and senior leadership


* Stay up to date on latest analytic tools and techniques and strategize how to leverage these tools to modernize our pricing/UW organizations


* Ensure solutions drive long term value while also ensuring they can integrate with current processes


* Test & Learn Pilots: collaborate with business leaders to design, launch and measure robust pilots to test new solutions


* Develop models that foster underwriting and actuarial advancement by aligning business problems to a potential solution like GLMs, Machine Learning, Clustering, LLMs or other advanced techniques

Qualifications:


* 5+ years direct Data Science experience in a healthcare related environment


* Strong background in stats, ML and model development


* Experience deploying ML/predictive models to prod/cloud env't


* Strong skills with Python, SQL, Git , Keras and TensorFlow


* Knowledge of common health care data e.g., claims, EHR, laboratory data


* Experience with best programming practices and writes clean, documented, and well-structured code


* Ability to peer review


* Champions a culture of documentation and logging


* Ability to own a project end-to-end e.g., scoping, ideation, dev, prod


* Ability to independently deliver clear and well developed presentations for both technical and business audiences


* Ability to create DS-specific project goals associated within high level project deliverables


* Ability to articulate timeline changes, rationale, and goals to meet deadlines moving forward


* Prefer MS or PhD in STEM related fields

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.

For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 127,400 - 212,300 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, inc...