Senior Data Scientist - Utilization Management

About the role

At CVS/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.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with business partners to shape the analytics approach to address business priorities (through predictive modeling, statistical analysis, or metric evaluation) as a thought leader
• Owns and manages an analytics workstream, leading other analysts and data scientists to build end to end analytical products
• Uses strong knowledge in algorithms and predictive models to propose approaches, investigate problems, detect patterns and recommend solutions
• Performs analyses of structured and unstructured data to solve multiple and/or complex business problems utilizing advanced statistical techniques and mathematical analyses and broad knowledge of the organization and/or industry
• Develops and participates in presentations and consultations to existing and prospective constituents on analytics results and solutions
• Uses strong programming skills to explore, examine and interpret large volumes of data in various forms

Requirements

• 3+ years of relevant analytic experience
• Experience programming using R or Python
• Experience in SQL

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrates strong ability to communicate technical concepts and implications to business partners
• Anticipates and prevents problems and roadblocks before they occur
• Strong knowledge of advanced analytics tools and languages to analyze large data sets from multiple data sources
• Demonstrates proficiency in most areas of mathematical analysis methods, machine learning, statistical analyses, and predictive modeling and in-depth specialization in some areas
• Hand on experience with LLMs and Generative AI

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Business Analytics, Economics, Physics, Engineering, or related discipline
• Master’s degree or PhD preferred

Pay

The Typical Pay Range For This Role Is $101,970.00 - $222,480.00 This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program.