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Lead Data Scientist
New York, NY

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Job Description

Looking for opportunities to use cutting edge technologies analyzing petabytesof data in a world class Hadoop cluster, generating insights to guide consumersin their journey to wellness and help them achieve their health ambitions,whether its running the Inca Trail Marathon or playing tackle football withtheir grandkids? Aetna's Member Analytics team is focused on deliveringstrategically-impactful programs and tools to help members across all lifestages feel the joy of achieving their best health, in their own way.

SUMMARY

Thisposition will play a tech lead role within the data science team to develop aworld class experimentation, optimization and personalization platform. Thecandidate will lead a team of data scientists to develop analytics module witha full suite of A/B testing features, build machine leaning models to providereal time next best action for users and create a self learning optimizationengine.

This is a unique opportunity towork on new transformation initiatives with CVS Health as a result of therecent company merger

This role will be responsible for:

* Technical leadership and mentoring
* Be a tech lead for the team, mentors team members and champions
* 360-feedback across team Motivates team members and probes into technical detail
* Guide the team to decide the right statistical methodology and algorithm for the analysis
* Help design analytics approach with scalability and productionalization in mind
* Experience with experimentation design and analysis
* Apply and innovate with statistical methods to reduce the time and data volume needed to draw reliable conclusions from experimental changes to the product
* Design and build mechanisms to summarize the interpretations and conclusions of experiments
* Design and develop analytics module and ML Model
* Develops and/or uses advanced algorithms and statistical predictive models and determines analytical approaches and modeling techniques to evaluate scenarios and potential future outcomes
* Build recommendation engines to surface the next best action for the user
* Build reinforcement leaning based optimization engines to allocate users to the best performing variants
* Develop proof-of-concepts and prototypes as necessary to showcase new models and analytical offerings to partners and customer
* Stakeholder management
* Consults with business partners to understand problems and goals, understand business value, and translate into business opportunities to be captured through predictive analytics solutions
* Demonstrates superior communication skills, and ability to develop and participate in presentations and consultations to business stakeholders on analytics results and solutions
* Adoption of documentation, engineering best practices, JIRA driven project management

BACKGROUND/EXPERIENCE desired:

* 2+ years of experience in being a tech lead for a Data Science team Lead a team
* 7+ years of relevant work experience within eCommerce, digital analytics, insurance, finance or other related fields Have a strong understanding of experiment design and advance methodologies to run more experiments and get results faster without compromising data quality
* 7+ years experience in statistical data analysis, model evaluation, ETL, and building machine learning models.
* Experience with big data, using Spark, Hadoop and Hive.
* Advanced in-depth specialization in mathematical analysis methods, statistical analyses, and predictive modeling Expertise in using R, Python.
* PySpark to manipulate large data sets and develop statistical models
* Excellent problem solving skills, critical thinking and conceptual thinking abilities
* Superior skills to effectively communicate technical ideas and results to non-technical clients in written and verbal form
* Ability to negotiate and manage interactions across the business and project stakeholders
* Experience regularly working collaboratively with others to solve problem

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