Job Overview
Location
Remote Nationwide
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Data & Analytics
Date Posted
July 16, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • As a Research Scientist 2, you will lead research, evaluation, and development of opportunities that optimize healthcare delivery, lower medical costs while improve member health outcomes, through applying mathematical, statistical, epidemiologic, and data science methods.
- • You will partner with stakeholders across the enterprise to identify, prioritize, and measure the impact of core and novel solutions to significant problems in healthcare and improve the health of especially underserved populations, using high volumes of structured and unstructured data.
- • Responsibilities include researching, prototyping, and scaling new ideas to improve population health and healthcare delivery, collaborating with analytic and business teams to set objectives, approaches, and work plans, and leveraging a wide range of analytics methods to transform high volumes of complex data into analytics solutions and actionable insights.
- • You will also collaborate with clinicians and clinical informaticists to define various clinical concepts and extract clinical information from medical, pharmacy, and lab claims for analytics and modeling purposes.
- • Translates analytic results into key takeaways and make recommendations to business partners.
- • Understands department, segment, and organizational strategy and operating objectives, and translate the strategy to work priorities.
- • Make decisions regarding own work methods, occasionally in ambiguous situations with general guidance.
🎯 Requirements
- • Bachelor's Degree
- • Demonstrated strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
- • Demonstrated strong interest in healthcare and desire to make a positive impact on population health
- • Flexible, dynamic personality who can work independently and collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team
- • 1-3 years of experience in applying mathematics, statistics, epidemiologic, or econometric principals to transform high volumes of complex data into actionable insights
- • Clear and concise oral and written communication skills, with a proven ability to translate complex methodologies and analytical results to higher-level business insights and key takeaways
- • Proficient in manipulating and analyzing data with at least one of the programming languages such as Python, R
🏖️ Benefits
- • Competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being
- • Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- • 401(k) retirement savings plan
- • Time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave)
- • Short-term and long-term disability
- • Life insurance
- • Many other opportunities
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About Humana Inc.
Humana Inc. is a for-profit health and well-being company headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. Founded in 1961, it provides health insurance, Medicare Advantage plans, Medicaid services, pharmacy benefit management, and clinical care through primary care centers. Serving millions of members across the United States, Humana focuses on integrated care delivery, home health, and wellness programs aimed at improving health outcomes and reducing costs for individuals, employers, and government partners.
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