Data Scientist III (Remote)

Availity delivers revenue cycle and related business solutions for health care professionals who want to build healthy, thriving organizations. Availity has the powerful tools, actionable insights and expansive network reach that medical businesses need to get an edge in an industry constantly redefined by change.

At Availity, we're not just another Healthcare Technology company; we're pioneers reshaping the future of healthcare! With our headquarters in vibrant Jacksonville, FL, and an exciting office in Bangalore, India, along with an exceptional remote workforce across the United States, we're a global team united by a powerful mission.
We're on a mission to bring the focus back to what truly matters – patient care. As the leading healthcare engagement platform, we're the heartbeat of an industry that impacts millions. With over 2 million providers connected to health plans, and processing over 13 billion transactions annually, our influence is continually expanding.
Join our energetic, dynamic, and forward-thinking team where your ideas are celebrated, innovation is encouraged, and every contribution counts. We're transforming the healthcare landscape, solving communication challenges, and creating connections that empower the nation's premier healthcare ecosystem.

Reporting to the Director of Data Science Development, the Data Scientist III is a senior level individual contributor role in the Data Science & AI Department on the Data Science Development team. This “Developer” focused role is a Data Scientist who is not only a strong critical thinker and problem solver but also has a high proficiency in writing and deploying production quality object-oriented and/or pipeline-oriented Python code for creating process automation solutions and solving business problems with logical, analytical, and machine-learning techniques within cloud-native architecture.

Sponsorship, in any form, is not available for this position.

Location: Remote, US

Role qualifications:

• A creative mind with excellent analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills that reliably demonstrates attention to details and accuracy in execution.
• Demonstrated proficiency in Python and SQL programming.
• Ability to independently explore and manipulate large, complex data sets and extract value from them using ETL and ad-hoc scripting skills.
• Hands-on AI/ML algorithm development experience leveraging ML libraries and frameworks.
• Experience developing and deploying production AI product Python code in a cloud-native, micro-service environment following change control and release cycle best practices.
• Strong proficiency with software tools/practices such as Git, linting, and unit/integration testing.
• Ability to quickly learn and skill-up with unfamiliar data and/or products.
• Ability to thrive in both collaborative and independent work environments.
• Autonomous worker, able to break down medium-sized user stories into tasks and drive work to completion.
• Strong communication skills including discussions of technical concepts, conducting peer-programming sessions, and explaining development concepts.
• Bachelor’s degree in (CS, Math, Data Science, Engineering, or other quantitative field) + 4 yrs work experience, or computational MS + 2 yrs, or PhD yrs with computational research experience, or overall equivalent length of requisite work experience in lieu of a degree.

Nice to have:

• Experience working with large scale healthcare claims and clinical data.
• Proficiency coding with Pyspark and/or Scala.
• Familiar with healthcare data standards.
• Experience with (preferably) AWS or another public Cloud Platform services and tools.
• Experience working in an “Agile” and/or “Scrum” development environment using tools such as JIRA
• Knowledge of/experience with DevOps/MLOps concepts.

What you will be doing:

• Solve business problems and discover meaningful business narratives told by the data by performing data exploration and mining and applying statistical techniques and machine learning algorithms.
• Conduct research and collaborate with product management and business stakeholders following design thinking principals to understand requirements and then design analytical and technical, code-based solutions that meet business objectives.
• Extract and manipulate large data sets, leveraging tools including Python, PySPark, and SQL.
• Demonstrate solution/algorithm feasibility by developing data science solution prototypes and communicating risk and limitations that may impact deliverables.
• Write production-quality, optimized code using test-driven development practices and applying data-driven QA to guide the creation of clearly documented, clean quality software.
• Write and maintain unit and integrations testing suites, QA, and UAT scenarios for production products.
• Contribute to production software maintenance and deployment practices, including production code repo. and CI/CD pipeline processes such as git actions and hooks, package and environment creation and maintenance, and updating or implementing infrastructure as code.
• Identify areas where automation could increase team efficiency and independently design and implement useful automated solutions.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior associates, modeling effective working relationships solution-building, and Jira ticket planning/creation that demonstrates team and Availity culture and values.
• Other tasks as assigned to meet team commitments.
• Perform code review for production-ready software solutions, giving constructive feedback to teammates, where appropriate, on opportunities for improvement of coding practices.
• Practice fastidiousness and self-awareness toward task completion and time management work effort to meet project deadlines.
• Support project timeline estimation and planning efforts.
• Communicate actionable insights to internal stakeholders and teams.

Availity culture and benefits:

• Availity is a certified “Great Place to Work”, a “Best Workplaces for Technology Companies”, a “Best Workplaces for Women” and a “Best Workplaces for Millennials”!
• Culture is important to us and there are many ways for you to make your mark here!
• We have several Diversity & Inclusion teams and various ways to engage with fellow Availity associates. “AvaiLadies”, “Beyond Black”, “HOLA”, “Availity Pride”, “VetAvaility” a Young Professionals Group and “She Can Code IT” a group for women in tech are some of the groups you can get involved in.
• Availity is a culture of continuous learning. We have many resources and experts in our tech stack and in our industry that can help get you there too!
• We offer a competitive salary, bonus structure, generous HSA company contribution, healthcare, vision, dental benefits and a 401k match program that you can take advantage of on day one!
• We offer unlimited PTO for salaried associates + 9 paid holidays. Hourly associates start at 19 days of PTO and go up from there with all the same holiday benefits.
• Interested in wellness? We allow our associates to reimburse up to $250/year for gym memberships, participation in racing events, weight management programs, etc.
• Interested in furthering your education? We offer education reimbursement!
• Availity offers Paid Parental Leave for both moms and dads, both birth parents and adoptive parents.
• Want to work for an organization that gives back to the community? You’re at the right place! Availity partners with various organizations, both locally and nationally, to raise awareness, funds and morale as our staff members volunteer their time and funds to engage the organizations campaign.

Next steps:

After you apply, you will receive text/email messages thanking you for applying and then you will continue to receive more text/email messages alerting you as to where you are in the recruitment process.

Interview process:

• Recruiter resume review 
• Manager resume review 
• Recruiter video interview
• Manager video interview
• Technical assessment
• Panel video interview

Availity is an equal opportunity employer and makes decisions in employment matters without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances.

Availity is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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