Cigna

Data Science Associate Advisor - HIH - Evernorth

ABOUT EVERNORTH:

Evernorth℠ exists to elevate health for all, because we believe health is the starting point for human potential and progress. As champions for affordable, predictable and simple health care,

we solve the problems others don’t, won’t or can’t.

Our innovation hub in India will allow us to work with the right talent, expand our global footprint, improve our competitive stance, and better deliver on our promises to stakeholders. We are passionate about making healthcare better by delivering world-class solutions that make a real difference.

We are always looking upward. And that starts with finding the right talent to help us get there.

Position Overview

In this role you will develop code to feed data to machine learning and statistical modeling platforms. This role will be responsible for the Extraction, Transformation, and Loading of data points from source to destination models. The data science advisor will collaborate with other data scientists and reporting teams across Evernorth to provide a streamlined way to productionize and locally test modeling. The role will also have numerous opportunities to automate and innovate the ways in which modeling is done and consult with business partners on best practices.

Responsibilities

• Locate, extract, manipulate, and organize data from operational source systems in support of analytic tool development (SQL, Microsoft SSIS, Python)
• Create and manage Postgres and SQL Server entities for use in Data Science modeling and reporting
• Proficient usage of SQL data sources and database management like Hadoop, Oracle, and SQL servers
• Partner with varying levels of operations and resource management leadership to understand challenges, goals, and pain points, designing analytic solutions to address them
• Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management
• Help develop and maintain code standards and repositories

Qualifications

• 8 - 11 years' building and optimizing ‘big data’ data pipelines, architectures and data sets
• Strong SQL expertise
• Experience with the use of Python for deployment
• Experience with Git (or equivalent)
• Experience with Python, Postgres and SSIS highly desired
• Solution design and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to extrapolate data into information to drive process improvements
• Ability to quickly learn how to use new software applications

Comfortable working in environments with varying levels of ambiguity, complexity, uncertainty, and change

Location & Hours of Work

• Full-time position, working 40 hours per week. Expected overlap with US hours as appropriate
• Primarily based in the Innovation Hub in Hyderabad, India in a hybrid working model (3 days WFO and 2 days WAH)

Equal Opportunity Statement

Evernorth is an Equal Opportunity Employer actively encouraging and supporting organization-wide involvement of staff in diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts to educate, inform and advance both internal practices and external work with diverse client populations

About Evernorth Health Services

Evernorth Health Services, a division of The Cigna Group, creates pharmacy, care and benefit solutions to improve health and increase vitality. We relentlessly innovate to make the prediction, prevention and treatment of illness and disease more accessible to millions of people. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.