Senior Data Scientist

McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve – we care.

What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow’s health today, we want to hear from you.

We are looking to hire a Snr Data Scientist to work on some key projects on a 1 year fixed term contract

Key responsibilities:

• You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining current infrastructure
• Develop and maintain pipelines using Python, SQL, Docker, Github and Git Actions
• Build data science solutions to extract themes, sentiment from chat, contact center applications on a real-time basis
• Use LLM's on streaming chat or large texts to extract meaningful information
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements.
• Build technically sound, business-friendly presentations ranging across end-to-end project activities (e.g., proposal, proof-of-concept analysis, modeling results, progress tracking, read outs).
• Stay updated on advancements in AI/ML space broadly
  
  
  

Key Requirements:

• Requires 6+ years of hands-on work experience developing and applying advanced analytics solutions in a corporate environment.
  
  
  

Critical skills:

• Hands-on experience and foundational knowledge to build robust AI/ML models.
• Demonstrated professional experience working on programming languages, tools, and platforms like Python, Databricks, Snowflake, etc.
• Experience with cloud technologies (Azure)
• Experience with distributed systems, streaming systems, and data tools, such as Kubernetes, Kafka
• Strong knowledge of database technologies, such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB
• Experience with the distributed cluster management. Understanding of Docker/ Kubernetes container orchestration
• Proficient in many of the following techniques - NLP, Sentiment Analysis, clustering, neural networks, KNN, decision trees, regression, etc.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts and results to non-technical audiences.
• Familiarity with data privacy standards, methodologies, and best practices.
  
  
  

Additional skills:

• Expertise in data visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau and Looker.
• Positive and flexible attitude to enable adjusting to different needs in an ever-changing environment.
• Teams up and collaborates for speed, agility, and delivery and operational excellence.
  
  
  

Education:

• MS or PhD in data science or related field
  
  
  

At McKesson, we care about the well-being of the patients and communities we serve, and that starts with caring for our people. That’s why we have a Total Rewards package that includes comprehensive benefits to support physical, mental, and financial well-being. Our Total Rewards offerings serve the different needs of our diverse employee population and ensure they are the healthiest versions of themselves.

As part of Total Rewards, we are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson. 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.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

€68,700 - €114,500