Senior/Lead Data Scientist

- Identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive innovative and scalable machine learning solutions that address complex business challenges. Develop and implement strategies that enhance operational efficiency, automate decision-making, improve customer outcomes, and optimize resource allocation. Apply advanced analytics to evaluate organizational performance, simulate potential impacts of strategic changes, and support initiatives across domains such as predictive modeling, forecasting, classification, recommendation systems, anomaly detection, and NLP/LLM .

- Develop custom machine learning models and algorithms tailored to business needs. Apply these models to large datasets to generate actionable insights and support strategic decision-making

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deploy, monitor , and maintain ML models in production environments. Ensure scalability, reliability, and compliance with enterprise standards

- Build and maintain scalable data infrastructure to support both real-time and batch decisioning. Leverage cloud-native tools and platforms to optimize performance and cost

- Engage with business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions. Provide thought leadership and guidance on analytical approaches and data strategy

- Ensure model governance, documentation, and performance benchmarking. Maintain compliance with Responsible AI and data privacy standards

- Build and maintain scalable data systems and infrastructure that empower our business teams to make better decisions

Bachelors in math, statistics, engineering, or another STEM field or equivalent experience and typically requires 8 + years of relevant experience. Less years required if has relevant Master's or Doctorate qualifications.

- 7+ years of hands-on data science experience delivering models to production with measurable business impact; 4+ years leading projects or small teams as a tech lead.

- Experience in at least two or more relevant domain (pricing , contracting, demand forecasting, supply-chain optimization, commercial analytics, patient/customer experience).

- Proven track record working in cross-functional product/engineering environments .

- Supervised/unsupervised learning, time-series, causal methods/experimentation, optimization; familiarity with LLMs/NLP and retrieval-augmented workflows preferred.

- Expert in Python and SQL; proficiency with PySpark ; experience with Azure ML, MLflow , model registries, monitoring/telemetry (e.g., Evidently ) and CI/CD.

- Git, testing, packaging, pipelines; containerization; performance/cost tuning in cloud; observability and on-call patterns for ML services.

- Feature engineering , working knowledge of healthcare/commercial data sets .

- Demonstrated adherence to enterprise cybersecurity standards and secure development lifecycle for data/ML.

- Executive storytelling; ability to translate technical results into decisions and outcomes.

We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered.

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