Description

Introduction

Last year our HCA Healthcare colleagues invested over 156,000 hours volunteering in our communities. As a Senior Data Scientist with HCA you can be a part of an organization that is devoted to giving back!

Benefits

HCA offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.

• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.

• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing

• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock

• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.

• Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more

• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts

• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships

• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)

• Colleague recognition program

• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)

• Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

Learn more about Employee Benefits (https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/employee-benefits-and-rewards)

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Would you like to unlock your potential with a leading healthcare provider dedicated to the growth and development of our colleagues? Join the Work from Home family! We will give you the tools and resources you need to succeed in our organization. We are looking for an enthusiastic Senior Data Scientist to help us reach our goals. Unlock your potential!

Job Summary and Qualifications

The Data Scientist I develops Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, and Deep Learning (DL) solutions to save lives and support the care of HCA patients. This technically focused position is responsible for understanding challenges/problems within the healthcare industry and leveraging these technologies to deliver real-time predictions and signals which enable our care providers to better care for our patients.

Major Responsibilities:

This Data Scientist I will deliver ML / DL products from beginning to end, including understanding the business need, aggregating data, exploring data, building & validating predictive models, and deploying completed models to deliver impactful results to the organization. They will also design and implement monitoring of product function and performance. A Data Scientist I conforms to, and contributes to improving, department processes and standards. The Data Scientist I is a highly motivated self-starter, is a continual learner, and is committed to delivering high quality solutions within agreed upon timelines. This table illustrates the relative experience/expertise of the Data Scientists.

This job may require up to 25% travel.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Behaviors:

Technology Experience: Experience in some of the following:

We are looking for knowledge/experience in these areas. If you don’t have experience in some of these, you will work collaboratively on a cross-functional team that builds Data Science signal delivery, data pipeline, and DevOps infrastructure.

• Technical knowledge in statistics, machine learning/deep learning, model fitting and optimization

• Experience in statistical modeling and machine learning using Python or R (Python is the language of data science at HCA Healthcare and will be the language used for machine learning development)

• Expertise/experience in data analysis, exploration, modeling and visualization required

• Business acumen (i.e., ability to understand, research, and frame projects in order to apply predictive techniques)

• Unix/command line proficiency •Able to evaluate performance of models in production

• SQL experience / database interrogation techniques

• Data visualization tools such as Looker, Power BI, and Tableau

• Big Data experience (HDFS, Impala, Kafka, Cassandra)

• Container-based platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift

• Container monitoring solutions such as Grafana and Prometheus

• Data acquisition, data cleansing and parsing required.

• Healthcare experience, preferable

Adaptability

• Eagerly learns new skills and technologies to enable the team to work on emerging challenges in healthcare.

• Treats change and new situations as opportunities for learning or growth.

• Focuses on the beneficial aspects of change and speaks positively about the change to others.

• Seeks to understand changes in work tasks, situations, and environment as well as the logic or basis for change.

• Demonstrates the ability to help others adapt to change and to personally adapt to various work environments.

Strategic Working Relationship:

• Builds relationships within the department and across multi-disciplinary teams to assist in facilitating discussions regarding data outputs and feedback on usage activities to improve Data Science impact.

• Presentation skills (communicates well with stakeholders)

• Story telling (explains technical info/project well)

• Communication skills, written and verbal

Adaptability - Expected Level of Competency

• Ability to network with corporate and field contacts.

• Frequent inter-departmental contact and presentations.

• Works with customers on a 1:1 basis, as well as in teams.

• Able to manage multiple assignments simultaneously.

• Ability & desire to learn and grow

• Technical aptitude to learn and adapt to new industry applications and tools.

• Collaboration & teamwork ability

• Project management

Working Standards

• Continues to refine development and analytical skills.

• Applies a consistent development approach to provide creative solutions to problems.

• Contribute to the design, construction and implementation of software and analytics solutions in the data science engineering environment.

• Works to build technical knowledge by taking advantage of internal team mentoring and attending professional development opportunities.

Freedom to Act/ Independent Judgment

• Works with direct supervision, developing demonstrated skills to work independently.

• Work is evaluated to ensure objectives are met.

• Exercises judgement and seeks input in selecting and adapting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.

• Follows standard practices and procedures.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree Required

• Masters/PhD Degree Preferred

• 5+ years of experience required

HCA Healthcare (Corporate) , based in Nashville, Tennessee, supports a variety of corporate roles from business operations to administrative positions. Like our colleagues in any HCA Healthcare hospital, our corporate campus employees enjoy unparalleled resources and opportunities to reach their potential as healthcare leaders and innovators. From market rate compensation to continuing education and career advancement opportunities , every person has a solid foundation for success. Nashville is also home to our Executive Development Program , where exceptional employees are groomed to take on CNO- and COO-level roles in our hospitals. This selective program focuses on ethics, leadership and the financial and clinical knowledge required of professionals at this level of the industry.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.

HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

Be a part of an organization that invests in you! We are reviewing applications for our Senior Data Scientist opening. Qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Submit your application and help us raise the bar in patient care!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.