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Applying to UnitedHealth Group: need details
Job Description
Job Description – Data Scientist
Job Responsibilities
-Create, analyze and maintain explanatory/predictive models using healthcare data.
-Work includes all phases of the modelling process: research design, data extraction and cleaning, model building and validation.
-To work through the entire life cycle of a project from inception to implementation.
- Experience using Machine Learning Algorithms: Linear & Logistic Regression, Time Series analysis, Support Vector Machine, K-Means clustering, K-Nearest Neighbors, Decision Trees, Random Forest, Naive Bayes, PCA, SVD, Artificial Neural Networks, Association Rules, Genetic Algorithm, Optimization, Bagging and Boosting algorithms etc
- Excellent communication and decision making skills are essential.
- Strong analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills
-Develop and maintain working relationships with key customer stakeholders
Values Based Competencies:
- Passionate about asking and answering questions through the use of large structured and unstructured data
- Integrity: Shows consistency between action and words on a consistent basis
- Performance: Demonstrates urgency in pursing goals, Puts in extra effort to achieve outcomes required, has a strong commitment to quality and accuracy and getting thing done correctly the first time, as well as managing time effectively
- Focus on Customers: Consistently meets or exceeds customer expectations, identifies or develops new processes to enhance customer outcomes
Must Have:
Masters in Mathematics/Statistics disciplines, Engineering (BTech/BE/Mtech/Masters)
Required Skill Set
-Proficiency required in one or more of analytical tools such as SAS, R, Python.
-Proficiency in extracting required data for analysis from source systems (proficiency in using SQL), data manipulation & data wrangling (SAS, R, Python/Numpy/Pandas, Scala etc.)
-Experience in at least two of the areas
Statistical modeling (Regression, Classification, Time-series forecasting) /Machine Learning /Text Mining /Optimization /Visualization
-Knowledge on Machine Learning Techniques and Big Data (Hadoop) would be added advantage
-Knowledge of statistical tools and techniques, especially those relating to data mining
-Demonstrated ability to work with large data sets
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