Alberta Blue Cross® is an Alberta based organization dedicated to delivering exceptional customer experience and community leadership. We’re committed to providing the best health coverage to over 1.8 million members and take an active role in promoting wellness. We believe in what we do—and place trust in our employees to deliver our vision.

Working at Alberta Blue Cross® means having a career where you’ll be recognized for your contributions. We value diversity, encourage our team members to maintain a healthy work-life balance and provide opportunities for career growth.

OVERVIEW: Reporting to the Team Manager of Data Science, IT Advanced Analytics, Alberta Blue Cross® is seeking a Data Scientist supporting the development and implementation of the organization’s Data Analytics strategy. This position will be part of a team whose purpose will be to advance the impact that data and analytics will have on the business as well as support and foster a data driven culture. In return this individual will experience a dynamic, highly engaged, and fast-paced organization that is committed to your success.

As a Data Scientist, you will play a critical role in the delivery of our enterprise data analytics strategy and development of machine learning capabilities. You will partner with internal stakeholders to drive the adoption of advanced analytics across the business. The ideal candidate thrives on challenge, is unfazed by complexity and persists in the face of ambiguity. You will be highly curious, results-oriented, self-driven and possess an acute sense of business opportunity.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Participate in problem solving initiatives, collaborating within a cross functional team of specialists, to design innovative solutions for clients and business leaders.
• Participate in the wrangling of data, especially regarding the more practical aspects like quality assurance, cleaning, aggregation and integration.
• Apply data science expertise including descriptive, predictive, machine learning, deep learning, and AI techniques to generate new insights and solve business problems.
• Demonstrate creative problem solving and ability to translate data patterns into business insights, cause/effect relationships and variables to amplify predictive power of underlying models.
• Provide business recommendations by distilling complex data science findings into clear, actionable insights, and effectively presenting them through visual displays to stakeholders at all levels, assisting with data-driven decision-making.

WHAT YOU WILL HAVE:

• Bachelor’s, Master’s or Doctoral degree in computing science, statistics, mathematics, engineering, or a related field in which advanced statistical methods are used.
• 5+ years of quantitative analysis experience, including handling, manipulating, and analyzing data and creating analytical reports.
• Ability to translate business questions to data questions and present results in ways that make complicated relationships clear.
• Comfortable using one or more statistical programming languages (i.e., Python/R) for data analysis and data engineering languages such as SQL and PySpark to work with large data sets and relational databases.
• Familiarity with Azure, Databricks, Power BI and star schema data modeling is preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively as an autonomous data scientist on a small project, and to collaborate with an interdisciplinary group on larger projects.
• Disciplined curiosity, consistent with the best traditions of science.
• Deep knowledge and experience of the algorithms and techniques of traditional statistics and modern data science especially as they pertain to business and experimentation.
• Experience in utilizing Generative AI to solve business problems with unstructured data, with the focus on enhancing efficiency, fostering innovation, and driving organizational impact.

This position will remain open until a suitable candidate is selected.

Alberta Blue Cross® is an inclusive employer committed to a workplace that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We empower and are advocates for our team members by welcoming, respecting and valuing their unique perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences.

We offer the opportunity to work in an innovative, high-energy team-focused environment. If you have the qualifications we are looking for, apply online at careers.ab.bluecross.ca