Data Scientist II

Our team members are at the heart of everything we do. At Cencora, we are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures, and every person here is essential to us being able to deliver on that purpose. If you want to make a difference at the center of health, come join our innovative company and help us improve the lives of people and animals everywhere. Apply today!

Job Details:

As a Data Scientist-II, you will join a highly innovative Advanced Analytics team to uncover new insights from data to drive efficiency and informed decision-making. Data Scientists focus on building models to explain, solve, and uncover new information about specific business problems/phenomena, while enhancing decision-making through data-derived insights to create healthier futures for patients. Ideal candidates will be passionate about data, Data Science & AI and positively impacting patient lives while exploring and researching emerging Analytics technologies and techniques. Successful individuals will formulate new hypotheses and seek new understanding from data to build solutions and capabilities with far-reaching, real-world impact. This position can be performed remotely with limited travel.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Utilize advanced statistical, AI, and computational methodologies to deliver insights and strategic opportunities for improving healthcare quality, patient experience, and costs.
• Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analyses and model development, validation, and implementation.
• Monitor and analyze complex systems to diagnose and continuously improve key performance indicators.
• Translate business/research questions into analytical questions and produce actionable solutions.
• Assist in writing statistical methodology and results for technical reports and publications.
• Manipulate, combine, and refine large datasets and implement data quality improvements.
• Develop algorithms for data analysis and write code for implementation.
• Explore and visualize data to understand distributions that could affect model performance.
• Collaborate with various teams, including Cognitive Computing, Data Engineering, and Client Analytics, to align solutions with client needs.
• Present analytics findings for knowledge sharing and recommend model evaluation metrics.

Experience & Educational Requirements:

• Five (5) or more years of data program experience or demonstrated expertise in data management and architecture.
• Four (4) or more years in a data science capacity or demonstrated expertise in data science.
• Master’s or PhD in computer science, math, statistics, data science, machine learning, AI, or a related discipline.

Minimum Skills, Knowledge & Ability Requirements:

• Demonstrated ability to perform assigned tasks with minimal supervision and strong data modeling skills.
• Proficiency in SQL and programming in Python; familiarity with additional languages is a plus.
• Experience with OpenAI or Azure OpenAI API and LangChain/Llama Index is advantageous.
• Experience working with diverse data formats and technologies (e.g., relational, unstructured).
• Strong mathematical skills, with advanced understanding of statistics.
• Capable of researching new technologies and adapting to new approaches.
• Proficiency with data visualization tools/best practices is a plus.

Leadership Skills:

• Mentor and orient teammates; assess project needs and define business questions.
• Establish relationships to understand data and its collection process.
• Takes lead on projects and adapts to changing priorities.
• Creative problem-solver who finds innovative ways to overcome roadblocks.

What Cencora offers:

We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members’ ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits focusing on wellness, including:

• Support for working families (backup dependent care, adoption assistance).
• Behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and caregiver leave.
• Training programs, professional development resources, and mentorship opportunities.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or membership in any other class protected by federal, state, or local law. The company’s continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited, and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions, and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles.

Affiliated Companies: Lash Group, LLC.