Financial Services · 95k people
Assistant Vice President, Health Analytics Data Scientist
Posted 9 Oct
What’s this role about? The role involves designing and delivering causal inference and predictive modeling workstreams to analyze health program impacts and cost-of-care. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deploy scalable models into production while ensuring methodological rigor and clear communication of results to stakeholders.
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Company
About Aon Corporation We exist to shape decisions for the better — to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world. Through actionable analytic insight, globally integrated Risk Capital and Human Capital expertise, and locally relevant solutions, our colleagues provide clients in over 120 countries with the clarity and confidence to make better risk and people decisions that help protect and grow their businesses.
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Qualification
- Minimum 7 years of total experience, including health insurance, with a track record of delivering value to clients and colleagues
- Strong foundation in applied statistics or medical economics, including model training and validation, statistical testing, regression and generalized linear models, and experimental and quasi-experimental design
- Deep hands-on experience building, tuning, and interpreting tabular predictive models, including feature engineering, cross-validation, hyperparameter optimization, calibration, class imbalance, and explainability methods
- Hands-on experience applying causal inference to observational health data / medical economics, including matched cohort target trial emulation, propensity score methods, difference-in-differences (including staggered-adoption and event-study approaches), sensitivity analysis, and risk adjustment, with financial, utilization, and clinical outcomes metrics
- Detailed understanding of US health data, including eligibility, medical and pharmacy claims, and coding standards such as ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, CPT, DRG, and related industry standards
- Experience with MLOps and model governance – such as MLflow or similar tooling, model registries, automated training and scoring pipelines, version control, drift and performance monitoring, and model risk documentation and review
- Experience partnering with enterprise technology and architecture teams and working with offshore or distributed engineering teams to deploy and support models in production
- Expert Python and/or R and strong SQL; Databricks, Spark, Azure, Docker, and CI/CD experience a plus
- High-performing individual contributor who can mentor junior data scientists and work independently across multiple projects
- Excellent written and verbal communication, with a track record of documenting methods and assumptions clearly and presenting statistical results, uncertainty, and limitations to actuaries, consultants, clients, and non-technical audiences
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in statistics, biostatistics, mathematics, economics, health services / public health research, data science, computer science, actuarial science, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent professional experience; advanced degrees are a plus
- Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.
- The salary range for this position (intended for U.S. applicants) is $160,000 to $190,000 annually. The actual salary will vary based on applicant’s education, experience, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data. The salary may also be adjusted based on applicant’s geographic location.
- This position is eligible to participate in one of Aon’s annual incentive plans to receive an annual discretionary bonus in addition to base salary. The amount of any bonus varies and is subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable incentive plan.
Benefits
- Aon offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and regular part-time colleagues, including, but not limited to: a 401(k) savings plan with employer contributions; an employee stock purchase plan; consideration for long-term incentive awards at Aon’s discretion; medical, dental and vision insurance, various types of leaves of absence, paid time off, including 12 paid holidays throughout the calendar year, 15 days of paid vacation per year, paid sick leave as provided under state and local paid sick leave laws, short-term disability and optional long-term disability, health savings account, health care and dependent care reimbursement accounts, employee and dependent life insurance and supplemental life and AD&D insurance; optional personal insurance policies, adoption assistance, tuition assistance, commuter benefits, and an employee assistance program that includes free counseling sessions. Eligibility for benefits is governed by the applicable plan documents and policies.
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