Principal Data Scientist

Our client is a leading Health company who are seeking a Principal Data Scientist to there Data Scient team based in San Francisco.

Your role as a Principal Data Scientist will as the analytic team lead for highly complex projects involving multiple resources and tasks, providing individual mentoring in support of company objectives.

The role:

• Leading development and execution of new and/or highly complex algorithms and statistical predictive models and determines analytical approaches and modelling techniques to evaluate scenarios and potential future outcomes.
  
• Establishing analytical rigour and statistical methods to analyze large amounts of data, using advanced statistical techniques and mathematical analyses.
  
• Managing highly complex analytical projects from data exploration, model building, performance evaluation and testing.
  
• Applying in-depth knowledge of systems and products to consult and advise on additional efforts across organization/enterprise.
  
• Motivating team members and probes into technical details, and mentors' others to do the same.
  

Skills:

• 10 or more years of progressively complex related experience.
  
• Demonstrates advanced in-depth specialization in mathematical analysis methods, machine learning, statistical analyses, and predictive modeling.
  
• Comprehensive knowledge on health care industry, products, systems, business strategies and products.
  
• Expertise in innovating and implementing novel machine learning techniques.
  
• Expertise in advanced analytics tools and languages to analyze large data sets from multiple data sources.
  
• Superior skills to effectively communicate and negotiate across the business and in the external health care environment.
  
• Superior ability to communicate technical ideas and results to non-technical clients in written and verbal form.
  
• Strong organizational, management and leadership skills.
  

Preferred Skills:

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
  
• Bachelor's degree in quantitative field required
  
• MS preferred