Job Location: Detroit, MI
The Manager of Data Science is responsible for helping the organization to provide valuable direction and insight for management to make informed decisions leveraging on data, through a team of data scientists and engineers. Works closely with business leaders to fully understand opportunities and gaps for data science solutions to extract value and produce innovative solutions.
Working with different parts of the organization, analyzes and assesses effectiveness of different initiatives and interventions. Also evaluates in-house/vendor-built data-science/statistical models and provides an unbiased overview of observed performance and outcomes. Documents findings and presents results to the leadership.
Partners with the IT/EDW to design and develop data strategies as well as data science tools and pipelines enabling the organization to carry out such projects. Utilizes a variety of data sources, both internal and external, big and small, structured and unstructured formats to build analytic models using machine-learning and statistical techniques. Also collaborates with IT to develop strategies to educate and enable community analytics to better digest and utilize data science tools.
Provides direction, mentorship and guidance to the Data Science Team. Ensures their professional and technical development and fosters continuous improvement of the team’s code, architecture, and agile processes.
The Manager of Data Science should understand business processes and develop cutting edge solutions to business problems. Should also be skilled at extracting, transforming, and analyzing data using a variety of common analytical tools and statistical techniques. Should be able to present findings in a compelling manner to both a business and non-technical audience.
PRINCIPLE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Manages a team of data scientists and engineers.
Collaborates with IT to develop data and data science toolset strategies.
Owns and manages data science platforms and budget.
Designs an unbiased and transparent framework for evaluating data-science models. Utilizes it to evaluate in-house or vendor-offered models including Epic models.
Reviews and assesses the performance and effectiveness of business initiatives and interventions on leadership request.
Leverages appropriate data science techniques to drive the creation of insights from data. Builds cutting-edge and innovative data science and statistical models as necessary.
Provides education to the business related to data science tools and applications.
Performs analysis and experiments for a multi-department audience, interprets and communicates findings and insights.
Stays current on data science and analytics tools, techniques, and practices.
Works on an Agile (Scrum) team.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Econometrics, Operations Research, Public Health, Epidemiology or another related field required.
A doctorate (PhD) degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Econometrics, Operations Research, Public Health, and Epidemiology or another related field preferred.
One plus (1+) year experience working with cloud Big Data Stack to orchestrate data gathering, cleansing, preparation and modelling preferred.
Eight plus (8+) years of professional work experience.
Two plus (2+) years of experience in managing a team of highly skilled staff.
Five plus (5+) years of experience involving quantitative data analyses for problem solving in US Healthcare industry.
Two plus (2+) years of experience with predictive, forecasting, and optimization problem solving using data analytics tools like Python, R or SAS.
Advanced SQL skills working with RDBMSs such as Oracle, SQL Server, etc.
Experience working with data visualization tools or Data Visualization Designers in Tableau or Power BI. Also, experience with data visualization for analytic models in Rshiny, GGPlot, Qlik, Alteryx, Flask, D3, etc. used to tell the data story to business users to foster adoption of analytic outputs created preferred.
Exceptionally skilled in machine learning, data analytics, pattern recognition and predictive modeling.
Strong communication and presentation skills. Effective communication and story-telling skills.
Must have good problem-solving skills in a complex environment and working with highly skilled staff.
Energy and enthusiasm. Passion for learning and contributing to development.
Additional Details
This posting represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that incumbents may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described above.
Overview
Under the leadership of President and CEO Robert G. Riney, Henry Ford Health is a
$6 billion integrated health system comprised of six hospitals, a health plan, and 250+ sites
including medical centers, walk-in and urgent care clinics, pharmacy, eye care facilities and
other healthcare retail. Established in 1915 by auto industry pioneer Henry Ford, the health system
now has 32,000 employees and remains home to the 1,900-member Henry Ford Medical Group, one
of the nation’s oldest physician groups. An additional 2,200 physicians are also affiliated with the
health system through the Henry Ford Physician Network. Henry Ford is also one of the region’s
major academic medical centers, receiving between $90-$100 million in annual research funding and
remaining Michigan’s fourth largest NIH-funded institution. Also an active participant in medical
education and training, the health system has trained nearly 40% of physicians currently practicing
in the state and also provides education and training for other health professionals including nurses,
pharmacists, radiology and respiratory technicians. visit HenryFord.com .
Benefits
Whether it’s offering a new medical option, helping you make healthier lifestyle choices or
making the employee enrollment selection experience easier, it’s all about choice. Henry
Ford Health has a new approach for its employee benefits program – My Choice
Rewards. My Choice Rewards is a program as diverse as the people it serves. There are
dozens of options for all of our employees including compensation, benefits, work/life balance
and learning – options that enhance your career and add value to your personal life. As an
employee you are provided access to Retirement Programs, an Employee Assistance Program
(Henry Ford Enhanced), Tuition Reimbursement, Paid Time Off, Employee Health and Wellness, and a whole host of other benefits and services. Employee’s classified as contingent status are not eligible for benefits.
Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer
Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer Henry Ford Health is
committed to the hiring, advancement and fair treatment of all individuals without regard to
race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, size, height,
weight, marital status, family status, gender identity, sexual orientation, and genetic information,
or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal and state laws.
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