Data Scientist (Medicare/Medicaid)

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

NACI (T1)

Job Family:

Data Science

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Fraud Protection, Medicaid, Medicare

Certifications:

None

Experience:

3 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

Deliver insights to help our clients turn data into action as a Data Scientist at GDIT. Your work will provide transformative solutions to our clients’ big-data obstacles and help advance the mission. Here, you can make a meaningful impact on our clients’ mission and on your career.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Data Scientist you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on Data Scientist joining our team to support CMS' mission to detect and prevent fraud, waste, and abuse across Medicare, Medicaid, and Marketplace programs.

Responsibilities:

• Extract qualitative and quantitative relationships, patterns, and trends from large amounts of data using various tools such as Python, R, SQL, SAS and
• Present analytic studies and findings to a wide audience including leadership, technical, and non-technical resources.
• Conduct advanced research studies inclusive of policy research, analysis, and modeling and organize/summarize the information for use in supporting decision-making process
• Collect, manipulate, analyze, evaluate, and display data using visualization tools
• Perform data analysis, statistical analysis, and machine learning modeling to conduct complex studies, develop sound inferences, and summarize results using a variety of descriptive statistics
• Implement open-ended data merges, data analysis plans, and perform complex data manipulation and reporting tasks
• Develop, write, and present detailed technical solutions to solve open-ended business problems to technical and non-technical audiences

Required Skills:

• BA in related field or equivalent combination of education and experience + 3 yrs related experience, or MA + 2 yrs related experience
• Experience with Medicare and/or Medicaid data
• Superior skills conducting statistical/analytical and ML modeling and analysis using SAS, Python, R or similar software
• Superior skills working with large datasets efficiently and effectively incorporating quality assurance techniques throughout the process
• Proven communication skills working proactively and collaboratively with Federal research, compliance, and policy staff and stakeholders to implement and enhance internal and external management reports and public-facing data analysis tools and data sets
• Experience using statistical and machine learning algorithms, techniques and models and experience with assessing data integrity
• Experience using multiple data mining tools such as SAS, Python, R, Tableau, etc.
• Experience with fraud detection
• Experience using data visualization tools such as Tableau
• Experience conducting health care related research and analytics
• Experience developing and presenting solutions to complex, open-ended problems
• Experience proactively identifying and working collaboratively with stakeholders to resolve data anomalies, data quality, and compliance issues in administrative data
• Superior customer service skills working proactively and collaboratively with Federal research, compliance, and policy staff and stakeholders to implement and enhance internal and external management reports and public-facing data analysis tools and data sets
• Experience matching and merging disparate data sets
• Superior multi-tasking and organization skills. Must manage multiple simultaneous projects and prioritize assignments and tasks accordingly, remaining flexible to changing priorities and new initiatives
• Experience supporting data governance policies and supporting infrastructures spanning diverse stakeholders
• Experience using MS Excel and PowerPoint for analysis and presentation of results

The likely salary range for this position is $87,419 - $118,273. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:

Remote

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 30 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

We connect people with the most impactful client missions, creating an unparalleled work experience that allows them to see their impact every day. We create opportunities for our people to lead and learn simultaneously. From securing our nation’s most sensitive systems, to enabling digital transformation and cloud adoption, our people are the ones who make change real.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans