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HCA Healthcare · 5 hours ago

Lead Data Scientist

HCA Healthcare is committed to providing high-quality healthcare services and is seeking a Lead Data Scientist to join their Care Transformation and Innovation team. The role involves delivering data science products, implementing best practices, and collaborating with stakeholders to drive transformational change through data science solutions.

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Responsibilities

Design and implement incoming data for feature engineering and machine learning
Create features with usable predictive power by using domain knowledge of healthcare data, statistics, and data science
Extract features via cluster analysis, text analytics, principal components analysis and related methodologies to identify useful information without distorting original relationships or significant information in order to performance tune and promote scalability of the model
Conduct data exploration and analysis to identify relevant patterns, trends, and relationships; understand the data deeply to appropriately align the data features with the appropriate machine learning methodologies
Apply various statistical and machine learning techniques to develop, tune, and optimize predictive modeling to align with the use case requirements
Deploy code using best practices
Document and present data science strategies and insights and solutions
Build and maintain pipelines, code, and processes to monitor the proper functioning of enterprise grade data science products
Ensure high quality and integrity throughout the entire data science process
Collaborate with stakeholders, data scientists, data engineers, and product managers to build and deliver high-quality data products

Qualification

SQLPythonMachine LearningData ProcessingData VisualizationDockerCloud DeploymentsAgile DevelopmentHealthcare Data KnowledgeCommunication SkillsCollaboration Skills

Required

6+ years of overall experience in various aspects of data science and machine learning (for Lead level)
Expert experience in SQL and Python
Experience with structured and unstructured data (ie. tabular, text, images, video, etc)
Experience with SQL relational and non-relational databases
Experience with data processing and ETL tools (e.g Apache Spark)
Experience with data visualization and data monitoring tools
Experience with modern software engineering practices (e.g. automated testing, continuous integration and continuous development)
Experience with Docker
Experience with cloud deployments in GCP or another cloud platform
Experience with Agile development methods and tools (e.g. Azure Dev Ops)
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across multiple teams and stakeholders
Ability to tell a story using data and insights that drives action and change

Preferred

Domain knowledge of healthcare data preferred
Expertise in healthcare protocols and formats such as HL7, FHIR, DICOM preferred
Expert in the regulatory aspects of the healthcare domain preferred
Experience in GCP platform preferred

Company

HCA Healthcare

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HCA Healthcare provides medical education and healthcare services in locally managed facilities. It is a sub-organization of North Florida Endoscopy Center.

H1B Sponsorship

HCA Healthcare has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (2)
2022 (2)
2020 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$8.51B
2025-10-31Post Ipo Debt· $3.25B
2025-02-24Post Ipo Debt· $5.25B
2014-06-25Post Ipo Debt· $3.2M

Leadership Team

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Nicholas Manning
Chief Executive Officer
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Nick Lane
Regional Vice President Human Resources
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