job id 51305 data scientist engineerbloomfield connecticut united states noopenings 2 6 month contract with expectations of permanent employment client will not accept eadopts or h4scandidate must be us citizens green card holder or h1s with 1 year or more left on visa and an approved 140 form candidates must be willing to go permanent with the client candidates should be willing to conduct face to face interview if necessary client will not accept resumes over 3 pages descriptiondata scientist engineer position descriptiondata scientistengineer to join the team we have 2 openings 1 for bloomfield ct and 1 for lafayette layoull be a part of the team that supports the organization by embedding deep analytic insights into key decision processes and focusing on the biggest most complex problems we are looking for team players with excellent analytic and technical skills and insatiable curiosity about data to support our data quality and data management efforts in the big data spacewhat youll be responsible for support the development and maintenance of the enterprise data management framework and data metrics with a focus on metadata management use modeling machine learning and programming skills to generate insights by leveraging large amounts of health care data leverage bigdata technology to design prototype develop and optimize production algorithms partner with key stakeholders to understand their needs and build new automated solutions for data identification data quality metadata management data retention demonstrate how analytical results are connected to a business problem or objective present and provide recommendations to internal teams and stakeholders analyzingmeasuring the quality of data ingested into the data lake and other authoritative data sourceswhat youll need strong programming and data manipulation skills proficiency in most areas of mathematical and statistical analyses machine learning predictive modeling and data visualization a strong ability to communicate technical concepts and insights to business partners excellent problem solving skills as well as critical thinking and conceptual thinking abilities collaborate with source systems and downstream data consumers to remediate issues and put in place processes to monitor data quality risks support and contribute to the cigna enterprise data management teams overall goals high quality data effective data stewardship robust and reliable metadata compliance with data governance policy deliverables will include reports detailed and summary analyses root cause analyses and improvement proposals experience and qualification experience excellent problem solving skills with the ability to design algorithms including data profiling clustering anomaly detection text analytics and predictive modeling strong skills in statistical analyses with abilities in advanced data management and statistical programming using python r java andor other languages experience with the hadoop ecosystem spark familiarity with agile methodologies understanding of cloud platforms like aws is preferreddesirable qualifications advanced degree in computer science statistics physics or related quantitative field preferred 4 years relevant data science experience your future duties and responsibilities support the development and maintenance of the enterprise data management framework and data metrics with a focus on metadata management use modeling