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Hours Full-time, Part-time
Location Minnetonka, MN
Minnetonka, Minnesota

About this job

If you want to achieve more in your mission of health care, you have to be really smart about the business of health care. Challenge yourself, your peers and our industry by shaping what health care looks like and doing your life's best work.(sm)
 
Due to growth, we are looking to build out our Advanced Research and Analytics team and need a Senior Healthcare Data Scientist to join our team. You should be an exceptional Senior Data Scientist with Machine Learning and Predictive Modeling experience and a passion for working with healthcare data (relevant experience with data from other industries of interest as well; financial, retail, telco, etc.), experience using various computational approaches, and a portfolio of projects you can show and talk about.
 
Primary Responsibilities:

Improve and extend the analytic methods in our product
Evaluate data streams
Support and drive analytic efforts around machine learning and innovation
Work with a great deal of autonomy to find solutions to complex problems
Leadership over a small analytics team

Requirements

Required Qualifications:

MS or PhD in applied mathematics, physics, computer science, engineering or statistics
8+ years of Machine Learning and/or Predictive Analytics experience
5+ years of Data Mining tools such as SAS (Base/Stat, EM, SNA, VA) and R
Applying computational algorithms and statistical methods to structured and unstructured data
Strong Python development skills and/or other prototyping skills
Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Graph Theory, Hadoop, Big Data
Combining analytic methods with advanced data visualizations
Expert ability to breakdown and clearly define problems
Careers with UnitedHealthcare. Let's talk about opportunity. Start with a Fortune 14 organization that's serving more than 85 million people already and building the industry's singular reputation for bold ideas and impeccable execution. Now, add your energy, your passion for excellence, your near-obsession with driving change for the better. Get the picture? UnitedHealthcare is serving employers and individuals, states and communities, military families and veterans where ever they're found across the globe. We bring them the resources of an industry leader and a commitment to improve their lives that's second to none. This is no small opportunity. It's where you can do your life's best work.(sm)
 
 
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
 
 
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.
 
 
Job Keywords: data scientist, machine learning, predictive analysis, data mining, SAS, Graph Theory, Hadoop, Big Data, telecommute, telecommuting, telecommuter