Healthcare Data Scientist (Medicare/Medicaid)

We are GDIT. We take pride in providing our clients with the data they need to make important decisions that impact the world around us. You make GDIT your place by delivering insights to help our clients make impactful changes real. By owning your opportunity at GDIT, youll become a critical part in how we successfully solve our clients biggest challenges. Our work is looking for a Data Scientist eager to grow their analytical and AI skillset while supporting vital efforts to detect and prevent fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. In this role, you will work alongside experienced data scientists and engineers, contributing to advanced analytics and generativeAI initiatives. Responsibilities:Supporting analytical tasks across data science, machine learning, and generativeAI projects.Assisting with the analysis of Medicare and Medicaid claims data using statistical methods and supervised/unsupervised learning techniques.Helping develop components of

generativeAI solutions, including prompt pipelines, simple agents, embedding workflows, or retrievalaugmented systems.Contributing to predictive modeling, anomaly detection, and other programintegrity analytics.Building and maintaining clean datasets using Python and SQL-based tools.Creating clear visualizations to present trends, patterns, and model insights.Documenting work and communicating findings with team members and partners.Performing additional duties as assigned. Required Skills:Bachelors degree with an analytical or technical focus (Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, etc.)At least 2 years of experience in Data ScienceExperience analyzing data, preferably healthcare or claims dataFamiliarity with Python or R for data analysis and machine learningExperience with common data science libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib, or Seaborn.Exposure to generative AI or modern machine learning frameworks (e.g., Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, embeddings, vector databases)Familiarity with SQL and cloud data tools such as Databricks, Snowflake, or Spark is a plus.Understanding of basic statistics and foundational ML concepts such as feature engineering, train/test splits, and evaluation metrics.Ability to create and interpret data visualizations.