Senior Data Scientist

About Bellese Technologies

Bellese is a mission-driven Digital Services Company committed to pioneering innovative technology solutions in civic healthcare. Our dedication lies in making a meaningful impact on public health outcomes. Driven by service design, we strive to know the “Why” to understand the healthcare journey for patients, caregivers, providers, payers, and policymakers. Our goal is to design and build solutions that reduce confusion, provide clarity, support decision making, and streamline the process so that we and our partners can focus on providing better health outcomes by improving patient care and reducing costs and burden.

The Team you will be joining: HQR

Our team is charged with maintaining and improving the software at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that supports the Hospital Quality Reporting program. Thousands of hospitals across the country depend on these systems to submit quality measure data that reflects the care beneficiaries receive in their facility. Our teams will continuously strive to modernize these systems, while improving them in ways that reduce provider burden and minimize costs to CMS. We do this through HCD and Service design practices, product thinking, and skilled engineering. At Bellese, we’re relentlessly focused on enabling and empowering providers to focus on improving the quality and safety of patient care.

What you will be doing as a Senior Data Scientist

Work collaboratively with Human Centered Design lead to take input from the below forums, analyze the data, visualize the data, and form insights and predictions supporting the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) initiatives to increase price transparency for healthcare consumers through price shopping alternatives: Healthcare industry research, Academic research, Public data sets, Medicare claims data, Web analytics data, Ideation sessions with the client, Qualitative & quantitative user research. Support the product design process with data in a way that reflects and responds to the functional, social, and emotional behavior of users. Build predictive models, data visualizations, and tools for analysis. Build AI tools that automate processes, recommendation engines, and automated lead scoring systems. Provide insights through the combination of qualitative design research and exploratory data analysis. Research and analyze data sources for patterns and clusters to help further the analysis process developing features for the CMS Procedure Price Lookup (PPL) tool. Create data visualizations that tell stories to help stakeholders and end users understand a problem space or lead to an insight. Ability to solve problems while considering timeliness, effectiveness, and practicality in addressing product needs. Ability to apply critical thinking skills to conduct an objective analysis of facts on a given topic or problem before formulating opinions or rendering judgments. Programming skills in R, Python and/or other programming languages used for data science purposes. Ability to collaborate closely with business and technical leaders. Ability to work with machine learning frameworks, such as Tensorflow. Work in an agile environment, delivering incremental product functionality in short iterations. Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques. Data mining using state-of-the-art methods. Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems. Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis. Performing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner. Creating an automated anomaly detection system and constant tracking of its performance. Participate in product discussions with the product owner, users, and the development team to understand and refine acceptance criteria and estimate user stories.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Experience with Python, PySpark, R
• Experience with unsupervised and supervised machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as k-NN, Naive Bayes, SVM, Decision Forests, etc.
• Experience with common data science toolkits, such as R, Weka, NumPy, MatLab, etc.
• Experience with data visualization tools
• Experience applying statistical methods and concepts, such as distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc.
• Experience with Sparklyr

Security Clearance Requirements

US Citizenship or Green Card only - we do not offer Sponsorship. US Residency for at least the past 3 years. Able to meet the requirements to hold a position of Public Trust, including successful completion of a US Government background investigation. Disclaimer: Medical or recreational marijuana use is considered illegal at the federal level, regardless of state laws allowing such, and may affect your ability to obtain Public Trust. See article.

Work that matters, with perks that deliver.

Discover how Bellese Technologies invests in you through a benefits suite that makes every day better. Remote First, Remote Only Culture. Four weeks paid time off yearly (prorated based on start date for the first year). 10 paid floating company holidays. Flexible schedule. Work from home setup including a Macbook. Collaborative, learning environment. Medical, dental, and company-paid vision insurance. Optional HSA account with some medical plans and a company contribution. Company paid basic life and AD&D insurance coverages. Company paid short and long term life insurance. Optional critical illness and accident insurance. 401K plan with 3% safe harbor contribution. Wellness resources and virtual care. Perks Plus employee discounts.

You will like it here if

• You foster a collaborative ethos, driven by the mission to deliver exceptional customer service to clients.
• You are passionate about Healthcare and changing the healthcare landscape.
• You’re an out of the box thinker, always striving to know the “why” when it comes to building solutions.
• You excel in a team-oriented, remote-first environment characterized by mutual respect and open communication.
• Your adaptability and ability to navigate challenges ensure your success in any situation.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment form but do not replace human judgement. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

Key skills/competency

• Data Science
• Machine Learning
• Python
• R
• Data Visualization
• Predictive Modeling
• AI Tools
• Statistical Analysis
• Spark
• Healthcare