Vice President of Data Science
Practice Area
Healthcare IT
Healthcare IT
Region
Anywhere
Anywhere
Location
Remote
Remote
Company Location
Mount Laurel NJ
Mount Laurel NJ
Position Id
48349
48349
Vice President of Data Science
Job Description
Client Summary:
Required Experience and Qualifications:
Most benefits start first of month following 30 days employment. Additionally:
- Offers a technology-supported, expert-led method to enhance documentation and coding quality.
- Designed for organizations navigating complex, performance-driven environments.
- Uses a blend of clinical and technical expertise to uncover areas for documentation improvement.
- Contributes to more accurate financial and quality outcomes, along with stronger staff engagement.
- Provides a short, low-commitment trial to demonstrate value quickly.
- Serve as the company-wide data science lead, managing multiple data and AI initiatives and setting the strategic direction for data science.
- Coordinate internal technology, business operators, finance, and third-party partners to launch data and AI initiatives.
- Identify opportunities to advance data science, build business cases, and measure ROI for all initiatives.
- Monitor and optimize program performance, assess predictive model ROI and subgroup performance, and iterate quickly through testing, deployment, validation, and refinement.
- Communicate program performance and impact to business, finance, and executive leadership.
- Work closely with the data architecture team to operationalize new models.
- Split responsibilities across stakeholder management, requirements gathering, program design, and hands-on programming, modeling, and data analysis.
- Lead and develop a team of data scientists, fostering a growth-oriented, inclusive culture and maintaining strong communication, collaboration, and accountability.
Required Experience and Qualifications:
- 8+ years’ experience in a hands-on data science role.
- Clear familiarity and comfort with fundamental data science principles (model creation, training, evaluation, ML ops, and internal communication).
- Demonstration of previous close coordination with DBA and dev ops staff is ideal.
- Programming experience with some variety of data science, data management, and data visualization tools; for example, R, Python, SQL, SAS, PowerBI.
- Familiarity with data warehouses, data architecture, and data operations principles.
- Demonstrated experience in managing a data science initiative/program/function within an organization, including accountability to a program outcome, managing internal and external stakeholders (up to C-suite/executive level), and vendor management.
- Experience with Azure DevOps or similar application lifecycle management tools is an asset.
- Healthcare analytics experience is required; revenue cycle management is an asset.
Most benefits start first of month following 30 days employment. Additionally:
- 401k Match
- Flexible Time off (FTO)
- Tuition Reimbursement