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Data Scientist I, II

Position Number: 7119073
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Position Type: Science - Other Science

Data Scientist I, II

Job Summary

As a Data Scientist in the University of Utah Health System Insight Center, you will help health system leaders make better, faster, and more confident decisions on complex issues that cut across market, clinical, economic, and operational domains. This is not a narrow reporting or dashboarding role. It is an opportunity to work on high-leverage system questions involving growth, access, capacity, performance, value, and innovation, often in direct support of leadership and committee decision-making.

The Health System Insight Center is a system-level analytics capability designed to bring together shared definitions, comparable methods, and decision-ready insight so leaders can act with clarity on important enterprise issues. In this role, you will analyze and interpret complex data, build models and narratives that help resolve ambiguity, and translate findings into implications and recommendations that are useful beyond any single project. The work frequently involves patient segmentation, demand and capacity modeling, market and partner analysis, cost and margin modeling, and outcome analytics.
You will be successful here if you are comfortable solving new problems creatively and in partnership with others, are able to define useful questions before rushing to answer them and motivated by work that informs real decisions rather than producing analysis for its own sake. Strong candidates can synthesize disjointed signals into coherent stories, iterate quickly with stakeholders, and develop products that are comparable, defensible, and meaningful to executive audiences.

This role follows a hybrid schedule, with at least three days per week in the office in Downtown Salt Lake City and regular collaboration on the University of Utah campus with colleagues, leaders, and clinical partners.

What makes this role distinctive

You will work on behalf of leadership on important, system-level questions rather than isolated local requests.

You will operate in a newer and growing analytics center helping shape how enterprise insight is produced and used.

You will work across domains, combining technical rigor with judgment, synthesis, and executive communication.

Your work will be expected to help leaders align, choose, and act.

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Responsibilities
Under the direction of the Senior Data Scientist and the System Chief Analytics & Insights Officer, you will:

Turn complex, disjointed market, clinical, economic, and operational data into clear findings, implications, and decision-ready options for health system leaders.
Build effective visualizations, narratives, and other analytical products that help stakeholders understand key signals, tradeoffs, and performance drivers.
Work iteratively with partners to define the right question, choose appropriate methods, share early drafts, pressure-test assumptions, and strengthen the product through feedback.
Use trusted enterprise data assets and shared definitions with pragmatic validation and thoughtful last-mile shaping, while partnering closely with data engineers and architects on analytical requirements, pipeline needs, and reusable data products.
Translate leadership questions into crisp deliverables such as pre-reads, briefings, dashboards, and scenario analyses that are useful in executive and committee settings.
Manage work backward from leadership forums and decision timelines, communicating early, iterating quickly, and delivering high-quality products on schedule.
Apply sound analytical methods and, where helpful, newer tools and techniques in ways that maintain clarity, credibility, comparability, and actionability.

Data Scientist, I Grade: P16Expected Pay Range: $77,250 - $91,340Data Scientist, IIGrade: P18Expected Pay Range: $82,250 - $101,945

Minimum Qualifications
EQUIVALENCY STATEMENT: 1 year of higher education can be substituted for 1 year of directly related work experience (Example: bachelor's degree = 4 years of directly related work experience).
Department may hire employee at one of the following job levels:
Data Scientist, I: Requires a bachelor's (or equivalency) + 2 years of directly related work experience or a master's (or equivalency) degree.
Data Scientist, II: Requires a bachelor's (or equivalency) + 4 years or a master's (or equivalency) + 2 years of directly related work experience.

Preferences

Experience writing, optimizing, and interpreting SQL queries.
Experience working with healthcare datasets and enterprise definitions; able to do pragmatic wrangling while partnering with engineering for deeper integration work.
Demonstrated ability to write analytics slides tuned to executive audiences.
Experience partnering with managers and leaders to clarify questions, incorporate feedback, and deliver useful outputs.
Familiarity with data visualization tools such as D3, Tableau, Power BI, R Shiny, or Plotly Dash, Microsoft Excel/PowerPoint.
A portfolio of project work demonstrating well-documented, and modular code (e.g., via GitHub).
Exposure to geospatial analysis or spatial data visualization.
Knowledge of web scraping or use of APIs to retrieve external data.
Experience applying large language models (LLMs) and natural language processing in health and business analytics (e.g., text mining, classification, summarization, retrieval).

Special Instructions

Requisition Number: PRN44876B
Full Time or Part Time? Full Time
Work Schedule Summary:
Department: 00728 - UUMG OPS
Location: Campus
Pay Rate Range: Please see below.
Close Date: 5/12/2026
Open Until Filled:

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