Northwell Health · 1 day ago
Data Scientist (Hybrid as needed)
5 Dakota Drive, Lake Success, NY, 11042, US
Full-time
Hybrid
Entry, Mid Level
$75K/yr - $126K/yr
2+ years expNorthwell Health is a leading healthcare provider, and they are seeking a Data Scientist to enhance patient care through data-driven solutions. The role involves planning, implementing, and evaluating data science projects while collaborating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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Responsibilities
Involvement throughout the end-to-end lifecycle of complex data science projects/programs including problem scoping, due diligence, evaluation/validation/model design and development, deployment to production systems, monitoring prediction output, and measuring value
Have strong communication skills to act as the bridge between technical and non-technical team members and stakeholders
Support the data science team in technical and strategic analyses for decision making related to machine learning/AI
Enthusiasm for self-directed learning
Works collaboratively to design, implement and maintain data science models and applications
Works on programs to apply data science methodologies, including predictive modeling and machine learning, data analytics and visualization, and usability and design, to departmental, service line, and enterprise applications and functions
Synthesizes complex data-related problems into actionable business and/or clinical strategy, and communicate findings to appropriate end-users and stakeholders
Assists with the development of specifications to support the design of new or modified data science projects, with a focus on data-driven optimization, enhancement, and development
Assists in the evaluation of projects, systems, and initiatives at the department, service line, and enterprise level; ensures projects and their outputs enhance clinical quality, patient safety, and institutional efficiency, focusing on all aspects of data science, including data gathering and wrangling, exploratory data analysis, data modeling and machine learning, and model implementation and evaluation; ensures high quality execution of all proposed projects
Knowledgeable in present and planned data science projects and maintains voice of the customer in all project initiatives
Serves as the link between the clinical staff (customer) requirements and IS capabilities
Assists in ensuring that systems are implemented to support organization initiatives and goals to improve the quality of patient care, to maximize patient safety, and to provide operational efficiencies
Serves as a resource to the leadership; demonstrates familiarity with current hospital information systems
Operates under general guidance and work assignments are varied and require interpretation and independent decisions on course of action
Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related are not essential functions
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Informatics, Statistics, Engineering, Data Science, or related field, required
Minimum of two (2) years of post-graduate training or experience involving quantitative data analysis, required and working with clinical data, data science, and machine learning, preferred
Working familiarity with basic medical and health information technology concepts, including standardized terminologies and ontologies and electronic health records, as well as Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence tools, required
Expertise in working with SQL relational databases and statistical or general programming languages (e.g., Python, R), required
Deep understanding of statistical and predictive modeling concepts, machine-learning approaches, clustering and classification techniques, and recommendation and optimization algorithms
Preferred
Master's Degree, preferred
Clear and effective communication and presentation skills are highly preferred
Comfortable presenting to non-technical/clinical stakeholders and executive leadership
Experience in data science projects with organizational-level impact (healthcare related preferred)
Experience with cloud computing (GCP, Vertex AI preferred)
Experience with orchestration/ETL pipelines (e.g. Airflow, Prefect, Luigi, Kubeflow) with preference for Airflow
Experience with DevOps/MLOps (e.g. containerization, CI/CD, feature stores, data lineage)
Strong/advanced level proficiency in statistical analysis, machine learning techniques, model evaluation
Strong/advanced level proficiency in modern machine learning frameworks (e.g. scikit-learn), deep learning frameworks (e.g. Pytorch)
Strong/advanced level experience in training/deploying embedding models, fine-tuning large language models (various tasks), retrieval-augmented generation, prompt and context engineering, and evaluation of generative AI systems
Company
Northwell Health
Northwell Health is New York State’s largest health care provider and private employer, with 28 hospitals, about 1,000+ outpatient facilities and more than 16,000 affiliated physicians.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$58.3MKey Investors
National Institute of Mental HealthNational Human Genome Research InstituteBreakthrough Discoveries
2025-12-02Grant· $4M
2025-10-23Grant· $3.2M
2025-06-16Grant· $2.3M
Leadership Team
Michael Dowling
President and CEO
Nick Stefanizzi
Chief Executive Officer at Northwell Direct
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