**Remote opportunity in the following locations: VA, MD, TN, NC, FL, SC, TX, WV, GA, AR, KY, OH, MI, MO, AL, KS**
Are you a seasoned Data Scientist? Are you interested in using your technical skills and experience to help the community? Come join our team at VCU Health!
The Enterprise Data Scientist is responsible for advanced analytics applying statistical, mathematical, and computational models to diverse datasets to solve clinical and business problems and identify breakthrough opportunities. This position is responsible for performing sophisticated data analytics by designing, developing, and deploying quantitative models and other analytics tools.
The Enterprise Data Scientist will collaborate with operational and other data consumers across VCU Health to identify their complex business problems and provide actionable insights with the overarching goal of improving clinical and financial outcomes.
Essential Job Statements
- Develop the AI/ML strategy and roadmap driving organizational AI maturity to transformational state.
- Develop and own Responsible and Ethical AI guidelines for all embedded and custom developed models across the organization.
- Lead data science initiatives developing, deploying and maintaining predictive and prescriptive solutions using AI/ML and other advanced analytics modeling techniques.
- Develop and lead MLOps model life cycle management practice.
- Work with structured, semi-structured and unstructured clinical data to develop NLP/GenAI/LLM based tools and solutions for clinicians advancing patient care.
- Develop procedures and tools to audit and analyze model’s performance and accuracy.
- Collaborate with clinicians, researchers and other stakeholders to understand domain-specific requirements and translate them into computational solutions.
- Develop AI/ML based automation solutions that optimize business workflows and processes.
- Stay updated with the latest advancements in deep learning neural networks techniques and technologies to ensure the models developed are state-of-the-art.
- Design and maintain a curriculum for coaching and training current and prospective end users to better understand how these tools can enhance business decision making capabilities.
- Mentoring and Training other Data Science team members on best practices and technologies
Patient Population: N/A
Employment Qualifications
Required Education: Master’s degree in applied mathematics, computer science, engineering, statistics, or a related field required.
Preferred Education: PhD in quantitative field
Licensing/ Certification
Licensure/Certification Required: N/A
Licensure/Certification Preferred: N/A
Minimum Qualifications
Years and Type of Required Experience: 7+ years’ experience in Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence tools and technologies required. 7+ years’ experience in Python or R and SQL required. 5+ years’ experience in Healthcare environment
Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required: Experience working with unstructured data and big data is required. Experience working with one of the opensource ML libraries/frameworks -PyTorch/TensorFlow/Keras/Numpy required. Experience with Foundation models, fine-tuning or RAG required. Knowledge of Data Management, BI, Data Warehousing, ETL and Data Governance concepts preferred. Experience working with Cloud technologies such as AWS/Azure/GCP required.
Cultural Responsiveness: Demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through continuous development, modeling inclusive behaviors, and proactively managing bias.
Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Preferred: Displays intellectual curiosity and integrity. 5+ years in Healthcare Environment
Working Conditions: N/A
Physical Requirements
Physical Demands: N/A
Work Position: Sitting
Additional Physical Requirements/ Hazards
Physical Requirements: N/A
Hazards: N/A
Mental/Sensory – Emotional
Mental / Sensory: Strong Recall, Reasoning, Problem Solving, Hearing, Speak Clearly, Write Legibly, Reading, Logical Thinking
Emotional: Fast pace environment, Able to Handle Multiple Priorities, Frequent and Intense Customer Interactions, Able to Adapt to Frequent Change
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What We Do
We are a strong, passionate team of more than 12,500 who take pride in caring for every person who comes through our doors. We lift each other up so we can provide the very best and safest care to those who need us most. Together. Every day.
With the support of our university, we make up an academic medical center committed to excellence in patient care, innovation and training tomorrow’s health care workforce. We continue to educate, research and evolve – staying on the cutting edge of care.
As a community of innovators, every team member can contribute a spark of ingenuity igniting a force to discover the next cure, hold the next hand, solve the greatest challenges and create the health care of tomorrow.
We foster an atmosphere of respect and welcoming for all communities. We infuse our teams with diverse talent that inspires everyone to contribute openly and freely, maximizing their impact and creating meaningful change for our patients and community.
Join our team and help us create a new kind of patient experience. Join VCU Health.
EEO Statement:
VCU Health System strictly prohibits and does not tolerate discrimination against, or harassment of, team members, applicants, or any other covered persons because of age, race, ethnicity, religion, culture, language, physical or mental disability, socioeconomic status, sex (sexual orientation, gender identity or expression and pregnancy), protected veteran status, marital status, genetic information, or any other protected characteristics under applicable federal, state, or local law.
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