Staff Data Scientist

Join us at the start of a new era in health care where technology is transforming how and where care is delivered, creating a more connected, effective care experience for all. Our mission at Signify Health is to build trusted relationships to make people healthier. We do this by transforming the home into a health hub through a combination of data, technology & people. We are building a unified technology platform for value-based care that is improving care and reducing spending by treating patients in lower-cost settings and linking providers’ payments to patient outcomes. Signify Health is driving this industry transformation and solving some of the most challenging problems in healthcare – this is where you come in!

Signify Health Ireland is a green field, Galway-based R&D technology center looking for tech savvy individuals interested in embarking on a career that combines your passion for solving complex technology problems with purpose. Careers at Signify Health offer the opportunity to apply your technology and problem-solving skills toward a mission that benefits others and makes life-changing positive impacts on the members we serve every single day. We’re looking for problem-solvers, game-changers, innovators, dreamers, doers—people who are ready to move the needle and build on our success.

Our strength lies in the diversity of our people - combining creativity, innovation and passion. We fully champion inclusive culture and provide opportunities for growing, learning and leading, empowering our teams to come as they are and deliver their best work.

As we reflect on our learnings and successes from remote work, we aim to provide a new state of the art flexible work environment in our Galway facility at Bonham Quay to support those objectives. Careers with Signify Health Ireland offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to divide their time between our Galway office and their home office.

How will this role have an impact?

The Staff Data Scientist will be responsible for mining, analysing, and designing methodologies for data exploration, methodically running statistical experiments, and developing state-of-the-art machine learning models to drive business value. This is a critical role, combining advanced technical expertise with strategic thinking coupled with an ability to lead team members, to collaborate effectively across departments and to affect organisational strategy with respect to data science and machine learning. 

This role reports directly to the Director of Data Science & is open to hybrid candidates who can be in the office in Galway two days a week.

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

• BSc, MSc or PhD degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics, Operations Research, or another quantitative field. Advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of professional data scientist experience (8+ years with advanced degree) with a proven track record of success in delivering high-impact data science solutions.
• Solid understanding of high-level product architecture and data flow patterns.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills: Ability to tell a clear, concise, actionable story with data to folks across various levels and departments of the company.
• Significant experience leading and mentoring junior colleagues and fostering a collaborative team environment.
• Extensive track record in leading and delivering projects from start to finish.
• Considerable experience with statistical analysis, hypothesis testing and data visualisation.
• Expert proficiency with Python & SQL programming languages.
• Extensive experience in designing, developing, and deploying supervised and unsupervised machine learning models, ensemble models, deep learning models and time series forecasting models. Excellent understanding of underlying algorithms.
• Significant experience in designing, developing, and deploying Generative AI and/or NLP-based solutions using LLMs is desirable.
• Track record of building cloud native analytical solutions, either on H20, Azure or GCP.
• Experience working with sensitive healthcare data.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Mine and analyse data, applying statistical methods to identify critical insights for core and new products.
• Proactively develop new metrics and studies to quantify the value of different aspects of product personalization and set up ongoing reports to measure their performance continually.
• Research and develop statistical learning models for data analysis
• Translate analytic insights into concrete, actionable recommendations for business or product improvement.
• Build accurate and impactful predictive machine learning models to provide business value, inform strategies and improve customer experience.
• Give up-to-date recommendations based on model performance.
• Partner closely with cross-functional team leaders and customers throughout the cycle of innovation and improvement of products. Ensure that necessary data is captured, analytic needs are well-defined, and development timelines are coordinated with analytic needs.
• Drive efforts to enable team leaders to share your knowledge and insights through clear and concise communication, education, and data visualisation.
• Lead initiatives that require technical expertise and business awareness
• Guide junior data scientists and provide technical mentorship
• Comply with applicable legal requirements, standards, policies, and procedures, including, but not limited to, the Compliance requirements and HIPAA.

About Us:

Signify Health is helping build the healthcare system we all want to experience by transforming the home into the healthcare hub. We coordinate care holistically across individuals’ clinical, social, and behavioral needs so they can enjoy more healthy days at home. By building strong connections to primary care providers and community resources, we’re able to close critical care and social gaps, as well as manage risk for individuals who need help the most. This leads to better outcomes and a better experience for everyone involved.

Our high-performance networks are powered by more than 9,000 mobile doctors and nurses covering every county in the U.S., 3,500 healthcare providers and facilities in value-based 

arrangements, and hundreds of community-based organizations. Signify’s intelligent technology and decision-support services enable these resources to radically simplify care coordination for more than 1.5 million individuals each year while helping payers and providers more effectively implement value-based care programs.

To learn more about how we’re driving outcomes and making healthcare work better, please visit us at www.signifyhealth.com

 Diversity and Inclusion are core values at Signify Health, and fostering a workplace culture reflective of that is critical to our continued success as an organization.

We are committed to equal employment opportunities for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.