CVS Health
Bringing our heart to every moment of your health.
Principal Data Scientist
Location
North Carolina
Posted
23 days ago
Salary
$144.2K - $288.4K / year
Bachelor DegreeEnglishNumpyPandasPythonPy TorchScikit LearnSparkSQLTensorflow
Job Description
• Building models for "what if" scenarios planning of the impact of market dynamics, regulatory changes, and pharmaceutical innovation on the financials of the company and our clients.
Job Requirements
- Advanced proficiency in causal inference, including causal modeling frameworks (e.g., DAGs, SCMs, structural causal models).
- Estimation techniques such as propensity score methods, inverse propensity weighting, doubly robust estimators, and causal forests.
- Strong experience with time series modeling for forecasting, using modern statistical and machine-learning approaches (ARIMA, state-space models, Prophet, DeepAR, RNN/LSTM/Temporal Fusion Transformers).
- Expertise in machine learning and statistical modeling, including regression, classification, ensemble methods, and model interpretability.
- Demonstrated ability to design, validate, and operationalize end-to-end ML pipelines, from feature engineering to deployment.
- Strong programming skills in Python (preferred) and proficiency with scientific computing libraries (NumPy, pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch/TensorFlow).
- Experience with data engineering fundamentals: SQL, distributed data systems (e.g., Spark), data quality assessment, and data architecture concepts.
- Familiarity with MLOps concepts and tools for versioning, automation, and monitoring.
- Proven ability to design frameworks that enable counterfactual, scenario-based decision support for business strategy.
- Experience partnering with product, engineering, and business teams to translate ambiguous strategic questions into analytic frameworks.
- Track record of shipping and maintaining models or analytical capabilities used by business stakeholders.
- Ability to lead complex analytical initiatives with minimal guidance, including technical direction and cross-functional alignment.
- Strong communication skills: can explain causal assumptions, model limitations, and uncertainty to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience mentoring other data scientists; ability to raise the technical bar for the team.
Benefits
- Affordable medical plan options
- 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions)
- Employee stock purchase plan
- No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching.
- Paid time off
- Flexible work schedules
- Family leave
- Dependent care resources
- Colleague assistance programs
- Tuition assistance
- Retiree medical access
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