Details
Open Date 04/28/2026
Requisition Number PRN44876B
Job Title Data Scientists
Working Title Data Scientist I, II
Career Progression Track P00
Track Level P1 - Entry Level Pro
FLSA Code Computer Employee
Patient Sensitive Job Code? No
Standard Hours per Week 40
Full Time or Part Time? Full Time
Shift Day
Work Schedule Summary
VP Area U of U Health - Academics
Department 00728 - UUMG OPS
Location Campus
City Salt Lake City, UT
Type of Recruitment External Posting
Pay Rate Range Please see below.
Close Date 05/12/2026
Priority Review Date (Note - Posting may close at any time)
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.
Learn more about the great benefits of working for University of Utah: benefits.utah.edu
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: P16
Expected Pay Range: $77,250 - $91,340
Data Scientist, II
Grade: P18
Expected 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).
Type Benefited Staff
Special Instructions Summary
Additional Information
The University is a participating employer with Utah Retirement Systems ("URS"). Eligible new hires with prior URS service, may elect to enroll in URS if they make the election before they become eligible for retirement (usually the first day of work). Contact Human Resources at (801) 581-7447 for information. Individuals who previously retired and are receiving monthly retirement benefits from URS are subject to URS' post-retirement rules and restrictions. Please contact Utah Retirement Systems at (801) 366-7770 or (800) 695-4877 or University Human Resource Management at (801) 581-7447 if you have questions regarding the post-retirement rules.
This position may require the successful completion of a criminal background check and/or drug screen.
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