Data Scientist
Job Description
Use enterprise data to build decision-ready intelligence across Empower Pharmacy’s regulated 503A/503B environment.
Responsibilities
- Translate ambiguous business questions into clear analytical problems, define success measures, and select methods that produce actionable outputs.
- Create reliable analytical datasets by assessing data quality, resolving inconsistencies, documenting assumptions, and maintaining traceability from source through final analysis.
- Develop, evaluate, and refine statistical or predictive models using techniques that balance performance, interpretability, robustness, and business needs.
- Design rigorous analyses and experiments to test hypotheses, quantify impact, and separate meaningful signal from noise before operational decisions.
- Communicate results, uncertainty, tradeoffs, and recommended actions clearly to cross-functional partners to support timely, evidence-based decisions.
- Use AI-assisted analytical techniques when appropriate to accelerate pattern identification and scenario evaluation, while validating outputs and preserving accountable human judgment.
- Validate methods, outputs, and assumptions through repeatable checks, documentation, and peer review practices that improve accuracy and trust.
- Perform data science with disciplined attention to privacy, patient safety, documentation, and applicable controls within regulated 503A and 503B operations.
- Identify recurring analytical bottlenecks, improve reusable methods and workflows, and share practical knowledge to increase team consistency and speed.
Requirements
- Statistical and modeling depth: Strong statistical reasoning, experimental design, predictive modeling, and analytical validation with sound method selection judgment.
- Data preparation rigor: Ability to prepare, assess, and interpret complex datasets while maintaining data quality, traceability, privacy, and documentation standards.
- Stakeholder communication: Clear communication skills to translate technical findings, uncertainty, and tradeoffs into practical recommendations for partners with varied backgrounds.
- AI-enabled analytics: Working knowledge of AI-enabled analytical techniques for pattern identification or scenario evaluation, including validation practices that support transparent and accountable decisions.
Experience and Qualifications
- Minimum 5 years experience applying data science, statistical analysis, or predictive modeling to complex business problems with measurable outcomes and documented analytical rigor.
- Practical experience preparing data, evaluating model performance, testing hypotheses, and communicating findings to stakeholders for operational decision-making.
- Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience demonstrating comparable analytical capability.
- Experience in a regulated, quality-sensitive, or operationally complex environment where analytical accuracy, documentation, privacy, and sound judgment materially impact outcomes.
- Experience partnering across business and technical functions to convert ambiguous questions into structured analyses, reusable methods, and decision-ready recommendations.
- Deep technical expertise in Python, SQL, experimentation, causal inference, forecasting, optimization, KPI and measurement framework design, decision-support analytics, and modern data platforms such as Snowflake, AWS, and Microsoft Azure.
Technologies
- Python
- SQL
- Snowflake
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
Key Competencies
- Customer Focus: Builds trust through customer-centric solutions.
- Strategic AI: Guides responsible AI adoption and adaptation.
- Optimizes Work Processes: Drives efficiency through continuous improvement.
- Collaborates: Partners effectively to achieve shared goals.
- Resourcefulness: Secures and deploys resources efficiently.
- Manages Complexity: Simplifies and solves complex challenges.
- Ensures Accountability: Delivers on commitments with integrity.
- Situational Adaptability: Adjusts approach to shifting conditions.
- Communicates Effectively: Tailors messages to diverse audiences.
Values
- People: Empowering people defines who we are.
- Quality: Excellence in every product, every time.
- Service: Serving others is our highest purpose.
- Innovation: Advancing care through technology and discovery.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Paid time off
- 401(k) matching
- Wellness perks
- IV therapy
- Compounded medications
Physical Requirements
- Required to talk and hear while performing job responsibilities.
- Often required to remain in a stationary position for a significant amount of the workday.
- Frequently uses hands and fingers to access, input, and retrieve information from a computer and other office productivity devices.
- Regularly required to move about the office and around the corporate campus.
- Regularly required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.