Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Posted 123 days agoVerified live 17h ago
Data Science Associate
Brief overview
Des Moines, IAIn-person
UndergradOr in progress
1 H-1B approvalsDept. of Labor
Data collectionData joinsStatistical analysisData presentationSQL dialectsStatistical programming languagesFormulasData visualizationsBusiness intelligence platformsAnalysis platformsCommunication skills (verbal and written)Time managementProject managementData wranglingData profilingData quality assessmentData aggregation
About the company
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shieldwellmark.com
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield and its subsidiaries provide health coverage to more than 2 million members in Iowa and South Dakota.
Visa sponsorship history
1 year sponsoring, last filed FY2026
Data powered by U.S. Department of Labor. This does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.1H-1B approved
100%approval rate
H-1B Petition ApprovalsVisas USCIS actually granted: the strongest sign the company sponsors.
20261
Job description
Summary
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield is a mutual insurance company focused on the well-being of its members. The Data Science Associate will be responsible for extracting and analyzing data to support business goals, collaborating with stakeholders, and driving data-enabled decisions.
Responsibilities
- Participate in or conduct discovery sessions and stakeholder interactions to gain business understanding and identify business problem. Understand the project objectives and gather requirements to build a preliminary plan
- Research and gather appropriate data from various sources. Source, extract, assemble, collate, and consolidate data needs for the business
- Profile and prepare data for analysis
- Build and execute models to analyze business outcomes, using tables, graphs, and charts, as well as algorithms, forecasts, and trends
- Interpret results, identify key findings to quantify business value
- Develop a narrative to summarize and convey findings to stakeholders. Make recommendations based on findings
- Create, update, and maintain a production schedule for reporting and ensure reports and presentations are completed on schedule
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously and support corporate process improvement initiatives, meeting aggressive timeframes
- Collaborate with peers to identify reporting objectives and develop reports and analyses that meet their need and drive Wellmark’s value proposition for stakeholders
- Wrangle data from a wide variety of data sets and assemble into normalized and enriched data assets that enables new insights, solutions, and visualizations. Perform and document data profiling, quality assessment, source consolidation, aggregation, and other data manipulation efforts, to understand data formats, source systems, file sizes, etc
- Create, update, and maintain documentation and procedures for sourcing, analyzing, and preparing internal reporting and presentations. Ensure the highest quality and integrity of data sources
- Other duties as assigned
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in quantitative discipline such as statistics, mathematics, finance, accounting, computer science, engineering, or economics
- Less than 1-year hands-on experience with specific experience in data or statistical analysis, including data collection, joins, analysis, statistics and/or data presentation. Specific exposure with hands-on data analysis of databases and files using SQL dialects and statistical programming languages
- Strong formulas and data visualizations knowledge
- Exposure to business intelligence or analysis platforms
- Naturally curious and ability to drive business decisions and solutions
- Effective communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to present complex information
- Proactive, self-starter and can manage priorities through effective time management skills
- Master's degree
- Experience working with unstructured data sets
- Experience developing project roadmaps and timelines
Qualifications
Must Haves
- Bachelor's degree in quantitative discipline such as statistics, mathematics, finance, accounting, computer science, engineering, or economics
- Less than 1-year hands-on experience with specific experience in data or statistical analysis, including data collection, joins, analysis, statistics and/or data presentation. Specific exposure with hands-on data analysis of databases and files using SQL dialects and statistical programming languages
- Strong formulas and data visualizations knowledge
- Exposure to business intelligence or analysis platforms
- Naturally curious and ability to drive business decisions and solutions
- Effective communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to present complex information
- Proactive, self-starter and can manage priorities through effective time management skills
Nice to Haves
- Master's degree
- Experience working with unstructured data sets
- Experience developing project roadmaps and timelines
Benefits
- Learn more about our unique benefit offerings here.
- You can learn about life at Wellmark here.
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