SeniorLead Applied Data Scientist (Texas or Ontario)
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Job Location:
Mississauga - Canada
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
8 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
McKesson is an impact-driven Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights products and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here we focus on the health happiness and well-being of you and those we serve we care.
What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow make an impact and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients our communities and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrows health today we want to hear from you.
Job Title: Senior/Lead Data Scientist
Current Need:
The ideal candidate will reside in either Irving TX or Toronto Canada.
TheSenior/Lead Data Scientistis responsible fordriving the full lifecycle of advanced analytics and machine learning solutionsfrom problem framing and hypothesis design to production deployment and continuous monitoringdelivering measurable business outcomes for McKessonsbusinesses. This role partners with business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions ensures robust model governance and performance benchmarking andpioneersinnovative analytical approaches that improve operational efficiency and market competitiveness.
The Data Scientist provides deep technical leadership in modern ML methods including time-series forecasting optimization simulation causal inference and LLM/NLP whereappropriate. In addition the role works closely with product engineering and business teams champions McKessons enterprise model development standards and upholds the companys ILEAD leadership principles.
Key Responsibilities
- Identifyopportunities forleveragingcompany data to drive innovative and scalable machine learning solutions that address complex business challenges. Develop and implement strategies that enhance operational efficiency automate decision-making improve customer outcomes andoptimizeresource allocation. Apply advanced analytics to evaluate organizational performance simulate potential impacts of strategic changes and support initiatives across domains such as predictive modelingforecastingclassification recommendation systems anomaly detection andNLP/LLM.
- Develop custom machine learning models and algorithms tailored to business needs. Apply these models to large datasets to generate actionable insights and support strategic decision-making
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deploymonitor andmaintainML models in production environments. Ensure scalability reliability and compliance with enterprise standards
- Build andmaintainscalable data infrastructure to support both real-time and batch decisioning. Leverage cloud-native tools and platforms tooptimizeperformance and cost
- Engage with business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions. Provide thought leadership and guidance on analytical approaches and data strategy
- Ensure model governance documentation and performance benchmarking. Maintain compliance with Responsible AI and data privacy standards
- Build andmaintainscalable data systems andinfrastructure that empower our business teams to make betterdecisions
Minimum Job Qualifications(Knowledge Skills & Abilities):
Education/Training
Bachelors in math statistics engineering oranother STEM field or equivalent experienceand typically requires8 years of relevantexperience. Less yearsifhasrelevantMasters or Doctorate qualifications.
Business Experience
7 years of hands-on data science experience delivering models to production with measurable business impact; 4 years leading projects or small teams as a tech lead.
Experience in at leasttwo or morerelevantdomain(pricingcontracting demand forecasting supply-chain optimization commercial analytics patient/customer experience).
Proventrack recordworking in crossfunctional product/engineering environments.
Specialized Knowledge/Skills
Supervised/unsupervised learning timeseries causal methods/experimentation optimization; familiarity with LLMs/NLP and retrievalaugmented workflows preferred.
Expert in Python and SQL;proficiencywithPySpark; experience with Azure MLMLflow model registries monitoring/telemetry (e.g. Evidently)and CI/CD.
Git testing packaging pipelines; containerization; performance/cost tuning in cloud; observability and oncall patterns for ML services.
Feature engineeringworking knowledge of healthcare/commercial data sets.
Demonstrated adherence to enterprise cybersecurity standards and securedevelopmentlifecycle for data/ML.
Executive storytelling; ability to translate technical results into decisions and outcomes.
Working Conditions:
Environment (Office warehouse etc.)
Traditional officeenvironment.
We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors including performance experience and skills equity regular job market evaluations and geographical addition to base pay other compensation such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson pleaseclick here.
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Join us at McKesson!
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Laboratory Experience
- Mammalian Cell Culture
- Biochemistry
- Assays
- Protein Purification
- Research Experience
- Next Generation Sequencing
- Research & Development
- cGMP
- Cell Culture
- Molecular Biology
- Flow Cytometry
About Company
McKesson is the leading healthcare company for wholesale medical supplies & equipment, pharmaceutical distribution, and healthcare technology solutions. McKesson is the central nervous system of health care. At any given moment, in any given minute, we simultaneously execute thousands ... View more
