Sr Data Scientist

At CVS Health, we’re building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care.

As the nation’s leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues – caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.

Company: Oak Street Health
Title: Sr. Data Scientist
Location: Chicago, IL / Remote

Company Description

Oak Street Health believes everyone deserves great healthcare, the kind you'd want for your own family. We specialize in providing exceptional care for older adults on Medicare, often in underserved communities where there is little or no quality healthcare.

Oak Street Health is on a mission to rebuild healthcare as it should be with an innovative care model that centers on wellness-based, positive health outcomes for patients, not the volume of services provided. Our unwavering commitment to keeping patients healthy is highlighted by dedicated care teams that take time to get to know each individual, providing the personalized care they need to stay healthy and live life more fully. 

We're an organization on the move! Our rapidly growing national network of primary care centers is staffed by adiverse team of outstanding care providers, service team members, technologists, community outreach experts, business professionals, and more. For more information, visit http://www.oakstreethealth.com.

Role Description:

Oak Street Health is looking for a senior data scientist to join our data science team. Our core mission is to augment our operational and care team workflows with clinical data insight tools to connect the right patients with the right services. We realize that mission through the application of both simple and cutting-edge clinical tools, including advanced AI. You will play a key role in delivering on that mission by serving as a leader developing and deploying clinical AI, inclusive of the entire data science and machine learning development lifecycle.

Core Responsibilities

• Support the full data science lifecycle in healthcare projects from feature engineering, to experimentation, to post-deployment monitoring and improvement, employing the full range of relevant modalities from conventional ML to LLM agents.

• Collaborate directly with medical professionals and business leaders to translate real-world gaps into data-driven solutions drawing from an immense bank of interoperable health data.

• Communicate findings, performance, and projected impacts of tools to teams of diverse stakeholders with varying degrees of technical or medical proficiency.

• Serve as a thought leader in partnership with clinical and business leaders to not only share results but to proactively guide the product development.

• Stay abreast of developments in the field to continuously improve the techniques employed in the role.

• Conduct advanced real-world experiments to answer pressing questions of how patients engage with their health.

What are we looking for

• A graduate degree in a related field of mathematics, biostatistics, computer science, or engineering with 5+ or 3+ years working experience with a master's degree or PhD, respectively.

• Advanced proficiency in foundations of data science and machine learning.

• Applied experience leveraging both conventional ML and emerging NLP tools in a healthcare or healthcare adjacent setting.

• Expertise in HIE data and/or medical claims, extensive experience with clinical note data is a plus.

• Strong command of Python/R and SQL.

• Experience conducting natural experiments and observational studies of health outcomes and interpreting results with standard statistical techniques.

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

• Skilled communicator able to connect data with insight to stakeholder groups.

• Familiarity with best practices in model productionalization and deployment is a plus.

What does being "Oaky" look like?

• Radiating positive energy

• Assuming good intentions

• Creating an unmatched patient experience

• Driving clinical excellence

• Taking ownership and delivering results

• Being scrappy

Why Oak Street?

Oak Street Health offers our coworkers the opportunity to be at the forefront of a revolution in healthcare, as well as:

• Collaborative and energetic culture

• Fast-paced and innovative environment

• Competitive benefits including paid vacation and sick time, generous 401K match with immediate vesting, and health benefits

Oak Street Health is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and encourage all interested readers to apply to oakstreethealth.com/careers.

Anticipated Weekly Hours

40

Time Type

Full time

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$83,430.00 - $222,480.00

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls.  The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors.  This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. 
 

Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.

Great benefits for great people

We take pride in our comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits – investing in the physical, emotional and financial wellness of our colleagues and their families to help them be the healthiest they can be. In addition to our competitive wages, our great benefits include:

• Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and an employee stock purchase plan.

• No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching.

• Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility.

For more information, visit https://jobs.cvshealth.com/us/en/benefits

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 09/19/2025

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.