Lead Data Scientist - HCA Healthcare

Description

Introduction

Do you have the career opportunities as a Lead Data Scientist you want with your current employer? We have an exciting opportunity for you to join HCA!

Benefits

HCA offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
  
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
  
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
  
• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
  
• Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
  
• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
  
• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
  
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
  
• Colleague recognition program
  
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
  
• Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Our teams are a committed, caring group of colleagues. Do you want to work as a Lead Data Scientist where your passion for creating positive patient interactions is valued? If you are dedicated to caring for the well-being of others, this could be your next opportunity. We want your knowledge and expertise!

Job Summary and Qualifications

Role Overview: At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to providing our patients and care providers with the highest quality of healthcare services. The Lead Data Scientist plays a critical role in helping us achieve this goal by architecting and implementing a broad range of data science solutions to improve patient outcomes. This is a data science practitioner role with a solid academic and engineering background. He/she will maintain a balance between building principled, mathematically rigorous solutions, and launching them through agile product development. He/She will be one of the resident experts on Natural Language Processing (NLP), Speech Recognition, Large Language Models (LLMs), and related cognitive and generative AI disciplines.

Key Responsibilities:

•  Help leading the research, strategy, design, roadmap and implementation of NLP products from incubation to deployment
•  Able to be hands-on on and implement the latest state-of-the-art techniques in the space (from white papers and other research sources) in a robust way, enabling a path to applying research in production
• Lead various design and code review activities, ensuring code is abiding to internal engineering standards and Responsible AI framework
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate NLP technologies into our product offerings.
• Mentor junior data scientists, fostering an inclusive team environment that encourages growth and innovation.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and advancements in NLP and AI, applying this knowledge to our projects.
• Communicate complex technical details and project progress to non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications:

• Advanced degree (MSc or PhD) in Computer Science, Linguistics, or a related field, with a focus on Natural Language Processing.
• 7+  years of experience and proven track record of leading and deploying large-scale production NLP projects, with tangible outcomes and innovations.
• Skilled in Python Object Oriented Programming and SQL
• Experience building Python APIs and familiarity with API frameworks including Flask.
• Familiarity with NLP libraries (e.g., PyTorch, TF, SKLearn, NLTK, SpaCy, Transformers, HuggingFace, LangChain).
• Experience working with NLP techniques such as topic modeling, named entity recognition, information retrieval.
• Experience with Large Language Models and prompting techniques such as zero-shot, few-shot, chain of thought.
• Working experience with Cloud Computing environments ideally Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Basic familiarity with IaC (Infrastructure as Code) for Cloud Computing
• Exceptional leadership and communication skills, with the ability to mentor and inspire a team.
• Commitment to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace

HCA Healthcare (Corporate), based in Nashville, Tennessee, supports a variety of corporate roles from business operations to administrative positions. Like our colleagues in any HCA Healthcare hospital, our corporate campus employees enjoy unparalleled resources and opportunities to reach their potential as healthcare leaders and innovators. From market rate compensation to continuing education and career advancement opportunities, every person has a solid foundation for success. Nashville is also home to our Executive Development Program, where exceptional employees are groomed to take on CNO- and COO-level roles in our hospitals. This selective program focuses on ethics, leadership and the financial and clinical knowledge required of professionals at this level of the industry.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"Bricks and mortar do not make a hospital. People do."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If you are looking for an opportunity that provides satisfaction and personal growth, we encourage you to apply for our Lead Data Scientist opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Unlock the possibilities and apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.