Data Science Manager

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As a Data Science Manager, you will develop and lead a team of scientists and AI engineers dedicated to revolutionizing healthcare through cutting-edge AI and ML solutions. This management role focuses on hands-on ideation, development, deployment, and monitoring of AI/ML solutions.

This is a virtual/telecommuter position, working from home.

What you’ll do:

• Develop a high-performing team of scientists and engineers, fostering a culture of excellence and collaboration.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ideate and develop innovative AI/ML solutions addressing complex healthcare challenges.

• Lead hands-on AI/ML development efforts, ensuring timely delivery of scalable, high-quality products.

• Ensure, along with the team, the monitoring of all production products’ ongoing fitness for use.

• Partner with the team to routinely assess the business value realized by ML/AI solutions.

• Implement and ensure adherence to SDLC, peer review, and responsible AI best practices, including ethical considerations like fairness and explainability.

• Mentor individual team members to achieve their full potential as scientists and engineers.

• Foster within the team principled, agile-like development practices.

• Apply team-wide documentation practices that will enhance maintainability and ensure adherence to CD&A and corporate policies and expectations.

• Present impact of solutions to business leaders and other non-technical stakeholders in a clear, concise, and compelling manner.

What you’ll bring:

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field or 2+ years of experience in a related, professional IT/analytics position.

• 2+ years leading highly technical/analytical teams through their work.

• 5+ years of industry experience in developing, deploying, and maintaining AI / ML systems.

• 5+ years of experience conducting quantitative analytics.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree/PhD in a quantitative, computational, or scientific field.

• 2+ years as a manager of highly technical/analytical people and teams.

• 5+ years working within Agile-like teams and environments.

• 5+ years of healthcare and healthcare data knowledge.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Proven experience developing and optimizing ML solutions using languages like Python and libraries such as NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib and scikit-learn.

• Experience in developing deep learning models (CNNs, transformers, LSTMs, etc.) with frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Keras.

• Proven experience at debugging ML/AI systems and enhancing predictive performance as well as operational performance.

• Proven experience working with ML lifecycles.

• Prior exposure to software design patterns, microservices, distributed computing, container orchestration, and other relevant architectures.

• Knowledge of and experience in implementing ethical AI practices (i.e.: explainable AI, fairness, and bias mitigation).

• Solid SQL programming skills.

• Proven experience with a variety of statistical analyses such as hypothesis testing, experimental design, regression analysis, clustering, time series analysis, anomaly detection and sequence analysis.

• Prior experiences developing supervised predictive models leveraging logistic regression, random forests, and gradient boosting as well as previous experience leveraging unsupervised learning techniques.

• Experience developing or using modern deep learning models, algorithms, and architectures (self/cross attention, encoders and decoders, residual connections, normalizing layers, contrastive losses and joint embeddings, multi-task learning, transfer learning, state space models).

• Excellent communication, collaboration, mentorship, and team leadership skills.

What we offer

• Medical, vision and dental coverage
• Life and disability insurance
• Retirement programs (401K employer match and pension plan)
• Wellness incentives, onsite services, a discount program and more
• Tuition assistance for undergraduate and graduate degrees
• Generous Paid Time Off to reenergize
• Free parking

Equal employment opportunity/affirmative action:

Premera is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Premera seeks to attract and retain the most qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

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Premera is hiring in the following states, with some limitations based on role or city: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin.

The pay for this role will vary based on a range of factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s geographic location, market conditions, and specific skills and experience.

National Salary Range:

National Plus Salary Range:

*National Plus salary range is used in higher cost of labor markets including Western Washington and Alaska.