Healthcare Data Scientist (Medicare/Medicaid)
- Remote, United States
Posted 3 days ago
About the role
Clearance Level
None
Category
Data Science and Data Engineering
Location
Remote, Working from the USA
Key Skills For Success
Python (Programming Language)
R Programming
Science
REQ#:RQ227332
Public Trust:NACI (T1)
Requisition Type:Regular
Your Impact
Own your opportunity to be on the frontlines of health innovation. Deliver for America’s health agency missions and enhance lives for hundreds of millions every day.
Job Description
We are GDIT. We take pride in providing our clients with the data they need to make important decisions that impact the world around us.
You make GDIT your place by delivering insights to help our clients make impactful changes real. By owning your opportunity at GDIT, you’ll become a critical part in how we successfully solve our clients’ biggest challenges.
Our work is looking for a Data Scientist eager to grow their analytical and AI skillset while supporting vital efforts to detect and prevent fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. In this role, you will work alongside experienced data scientists and engineers, contributing to advanced analytics and generative‑AI initiatives.
Responsibilities:
- Supporting analytical tasks across data science, machine learning, and generative‑AI projects.
- Assisting with the analysis of Medicare and Medicaid claims data using statistical methods and supervised/unsupervised learning techniques.
- Helping develop components of generative‑AI solutions, including prompt pipelines, simple agents, embedding workflows, or retrieval‑augmented systems.
- Contributing to predictive modeling, anomaly detection, and other program‑integrity analytics.
- Building and maintaining clean datasets using Python and SQL-based tools.
- Creating clear visualizations to present trends, patterns, and model insights.
- Documenting work and communicating findings with team members and partners.
- Performing additional duties as assigned.
Required Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree with an analytical or technical focus (Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, etc.)
- At least 2 years of experience in Data Science
- Experience analyzing data, preferably healthcare or claims data
- Familiarity with Python or R for data analysis and machine learning
- Experience with common data science libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib, or Seaborn.
- Exposure to generative AI or modern machine learning frameworks (e.g., Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, embeddings, vector databases)
- Familiarity with SQL and cloud data tools such as Databricks, Snowflake, or Spark is a plus.
- Understanding of basic statistics and foundational ML concepts such as feature engineering, train/test splits, and evaluation metrics.
- Ability to create and interpret data visualizations.
Work Requirements
Years of Experience
2 + years of related experience
- may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree
Certification
Travel Required
Less than 10%
Salary and Benefit Information
The likely salary range for this position is $85,000 - $115,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Our Identity Verification Process
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.
About Our Work
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.
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