Senior IT Data Scientist

Centene Corporation

Senior IT Data Scientist at Centene focusing on scalable AI/ML solutions for health outcomes. Collaborating with internal customers to develop predictive models and insights.

Posted 4/28/2026full-timeRemote • Florida, Montana, New York, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $102,900 - $190,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Designs and develops scalable solutions using AI tools and machine-learning models.
Performs research and testing to develop machine learning algorithms and predictive models.
Utilizes big data computation and storage tools to create prototypes and datasets.
Conducts model training and evaluation.
Integrates, tests, tunes, and monitors solutions.
Participates in model brainstorming conversations with potential internal customers interested in AI/ML capabilities.
Analyzes use cases of ML algorithms and applies findings to enable business decisions by deriving insights through data visualization.
Writing moderately complex SQL and Python/R code to extract data from databases and data sources.
Explores and visualizes data to verify data quality and ensure data quality via data cleaning.
Builds ML/AI models using common methods within R and Python.
Analyzes ML algorithms that could be used to solve problems and rank them by success probability.
Develops logging, alerting, and strategies for handling model errors.
Produces fairness review for each developed model.
Sets up continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines used for model automation.
Produces clean & readable code that has been correctly unit tested and optimized for performance.
Completes deployment integration testing to ensure seamless deployment.
Maintains and supports AI/ML patterns by reviewing and solving issues and running ML/AI models.
Assists in leading team-wide initiatives that help develop templates and define best practices to improve model building and deployment workflow.

Requirements

What you’ll need

A Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or business field (e.g., statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science)
4 – 6 years of related experience
4+ years experience with SQL required
4+ years experience in developing Machine Learning/AI/Predictive models in R or Python required
4+ years Intermediate knowledge of Git required
Experience leading and mentoring a team required
Experience using Databricks Platform desired
Working knowledge of healthcare data preferred

Benefits

Comp & perks

competitive pay
health insurance
401K and stock purchase plans
tuition reimbursement
paid time off plus holidays
flexible approach to work with remote, hybrid, field or office work schedules

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Hard Skills & Tools

machine learningpredictive modelsbig data computationSQLPythonRdata visualizationCI/CDdata cleaningmodel evaluation

Soft Skills

team leadershipmentoringcommunicationproblem-solvingcollaboration