Principal Data Scientist
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30+ days ago
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. Youll lead with purpose breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected compassionate world.
A Day in the Life
We are looking for a business-savvy Principal Data Scientist to support our Contract Performance Management business team focused on transforming operational and contract-related data into actionable insights. This role will report solid-line to business leadership acting as an embedded expert within the commercial domain with a dotted-line reporting to the IT Data Analytics & AI team.This is a hands-on role where youll collaborate daily with functional leaders to frame analytical problems identify data opportunities build predictive models and develop actionable dashboards and tools to support pricing strategies and contracting this role you will apply your data mining skills statistical analysis and machine learning techniques combined with business domain knowledge to bring value to the Contract Performance Management group.
This is a remote position. Candidates will need to reside in Colombia to be considered.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
Analyze contract performance metrics (e.g. rebate utilization contract compliance pricing accuracy) to identify trends anomalies and improvement opportunities that drive decision-making based on strategic recommendations and operational efficiency.
Translate business questions into structured data problems and deliver analytical models and solutions that inform pricing and contract strategies.
Build and maintain analytic workflows dashboards and predictive models directly within Palantir Foundry (or similar platforms).
Ensure that analytical outputs are accessible interpretable and actionable by non-technical users.
Develop repeatable and scalable data science components within enterprise platforms that integrate tightly with contract performance operations.
Analyze large amounts of data to discover trends and patterns.
Build predictive models and machine-learning algorithms.
Present information using data visualization techniques.
Collaborate with data architects/engineers and data analysts withing the IT group to achieve common project goals.
Extend the companys data with third party sources of information when needed.
Processing cleansing and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis.
Perform ad-hoc analysis and present results in a clear manner
Required Knowledge and Experience:
Minimum of 5 years of proven experience as a Data Scientist.
BSc/BA in Computer Science Engineering or relevant field; graduate degree in Data Science or quantitative field is a strong plus
Fluent in English
Analytical mindset and deep experience transforming data into business insights.
Proven experience developing and deploying data science solutions within enterprise-scale analytics platforms such as Palantir Foundry (strong plus) Databricks Snowflake Dataiku Qlik Alteryx Tableau Prep Azure Synapse or similar.
Proficiency in Python or R is for advanced data analysis and modeling tasks.
Hands-on experience building analytics workflows and models in low-code or no-code collaborative platforms.
Experience with data modeling concepts and data lineage in modern data ecosystems.
Proven experience developing machine learning models for predictive and prescriptive data analysis.
Experience in data visualization (Power BI/Tableau or similar)
Strong math skills (e.g. statistics algebra).
Problem-solving attitude.
Excellent communication and presentation skills.
Preferred Skills/Qualifications:
Experience working directly with commercial pricing contracting or finance teams in a data science capacity.
Medical devices healthcare or pharma experience.
Hands-on experience working with Palantir Foundry.
Experience with ontology and digital twin frameworks.
Proven experience with process mining frameworks (Celonis UiPath)
Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits resources and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
About Medtronic
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission to alleviate pain restore health and extend life unites a global team of 95000 passionate people.
We are engineers at heart putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab to the factory floor to the conference room every one of us experiments creates builds improves and solves. We have the talent diverse perspectives and guts to engineer the extraordinary.
Learn more about our business mission and our commitment to diversity here
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Machine Learning
- Python
- Data Science
- AI
- R
- Research Experience
- Sensors
- Drug Discovery
- Research & Development
- Natural Language Processing
- Data Analysis Skills
- Toxicology Experience
About Company
About Medtronic Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an excit ... View more
