Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota is committed to providing personalized service and access to care for North Dakotans. The Associate Data Scientist will assist in developing data-driven solutions, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and analyze data to support decision-making processes.
Responsibilities
- Performs research, analysis, and statistical modeling on organizational data
- Develops and applies algorithms and/or statistical models to key business metrics with the goal of improving operations or answering business questions
- Analyzes large datasets to identify trends, patterns, and insights and provides findings and analysis that can inform decision-making and strategic initiatives
- Collaborates with cross-functional internal teams, including marketing, sales, healthcare providers, and IT, to understand business needs and translate them into data-driven solutions
- Assists in data collection, cleaning, and pre-processing
- Performs exploratory data analysis to uncover patterns and insights
- Develops and tests simple models to solve business problems
- Communicates findings and recommendations to stakeholders through reports, visualizations, and presentations
- Supports senior data scientists in larger projects and research tasks
- Stays up to date with industry trends and technologies within data science
- Performs work under direct supervision; handles basic issues and problems and refers more complex issues to higher-level staff
Skills
- At least 1 year of experience with data science, statistics, machine learning, algorithms and tools, proficiency in languages such as SQL, Python or R, Apache ecosystem or related experience
- Master's degree in data science, statistics, mathematics, or a related field
- Proficiency in analytical thinking to interpret data and identify patterns
- Ability to solve problems and resolve issues using data-driven approaches
- Clear and effective verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to present findings and insights through visualizations and presentations
- Skill in analyzing large datasets to extract meaningful insights
- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand and address business needs
- Equivalent combination of education, experience or training determined to be acceptable by Human Resources may be substituted, unless regulated by contract or program standards
Benefits
- Affordable medical, dental and vision coverage accepted throughout the United States
- Employer funded Lifestyle Spending Accounts, Health Savings Accounts and Health Reimbursement Arrangements
- Employer-paid life and disability insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match and immediate vesting
- Paid holidays, paid time off (PTO), PTO donation program, and paid parental leave
- Voluntary benefits including Accident, Hospital Indemnity, Critical Illness, Term/Whole Life, Cancer Care Insurance, and more.
- Robust mental health offerings including an Employee Assistance Program, Learn to Live, meQ.
- Comprehensive learning and development opportunities and an Educational Assistance Program.
- 16 hours of paid volunteer time with a $200 donation to a charity of your choice upon completion of all volunteer hours.
- Employee recognition, community initiative events and yearly company outings.
- Workplace flexibility offering different options for working arrangements and the freedom to make time for important commitments.
- Opportunities to connect through employee committees.
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