Healthcare Data Scientist – Medicare/Medicaid
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Job Description
Data Scientist supporting GDIT’s Medicare/Medicaid fraud, waste, and abuse analytics. Building machine-learning, generative-AI, claims-data, and visualization solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Support analytical tasks across data science, machine learning, and generative-AI projects
- Assist with analysis of Medicare and Medicaid claims data using statistical methods and supervised/unsupervised learning techniques
- Help develop generative-AI solution components, including prompt pipelines, simple agents, embedding workflows, and retrieval-augmented systems
- Contribute to predictive modeling, anomaly detection, and program-integrity analytics
- Build and maintain clean datasets using Python and SQL-based tools
- Create visualizations presenting trends, patterns, and model insights
- Document work and communicate findings with team members and partners
- Perform additional duties as assigned
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree with an analytical or technical focus, such as Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, or Applied Mathematics
- 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 Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib, or Seaborn
- Exposure to generative AI or modern machine learning frameworks, such as Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, embeddings, or vector databases
- Familiarity with SQL and cloud data tools such as Databricks, Snowflake, or Spark is a plus
- Understanding of basic statistics and foundational machine learning concepts, including feature engineering, train/test splits, and evaluation metrics
- Ability to create and interpret data visualizations
- NACI (T1) public trust requirement
- Travel required less than 10%
Benefits:
- Medical plan options, including plans with Health Savings Accounts
- Dental plan options
- Vision plan
- 401(k) plan with pre-tax and post-tax contributions and company match
- Full flex work weeks where possible
- Vacation, sick, and personal time
- Paid holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Military leave
- Bereavement leave
- Jury duty leave
- Typically 15 days of paid leave per calendar year
- Additional 10 paid holidays per year
- Up to 160 hours of paid family leave in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees
- Short- and long-term disability benefits
- Life insurance
- Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Personal accident insurance
- Critical illness insurance
- Business travel and accident insurance
- Remote work

















