Director Data Science

About the role

The Director of Data Science leads BSWH's enterprise data science and advanced analytics portfolio. The role converts business, clinical, customer, and operational priorities into measurable analytical products, including predictive, prescriptive, optimization, experimentation, machine learning, and AI capabilities. The Director is accountable for analytical approach selection, model and experiment evaluation, transition to production with AI Engineering, post-launch monitoring, adoption, and evidence of value. Within the Data & Knowledge function, this leader establishes the data science operating model, prioritizes investment and capacity, and builds a high-performing team. The Director maintains a portfolio of opportunities with clear value hypotheses, success measures, dependencies, risks, and decision points, and recommends when to build, buy, partner, defer, or retire a capability. This role works closely with Enterprise Data, Ontology & Knowledge Products, AI Engineering, Product, Digital, Clinical, Operations, Governance, Privacy, Security, and other partners. These partners retain accountability for their respective product, platform, source-data, policy, and clinical approval decisions. Where data science supports clinical or patient-facing decisions, the Director ensures that the intended use is appropriately validated, governed, and implemented with clinical and operational leaders. This position can be based in our administrative building in Dallas, Texas or mostly