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Nexwave

Sr. Data Scientist

Contract · In Office · Minnesota (USA)

Posted Aug 31, 2026

Work Options
Cloud Stack
Job Type
Position Group
  • Role - Sr. Data Scientist
  • Location: Minnetonka, MN – (Onsite/Hybrid)
  • Experience : 10+
  • Must be local to the Minnetonka, MN area and available for onsite work.
  • Healthcare Domain background Experience Must

Rate: $70/hr. on C2C/1099 (OR) $60/hr. on W2 (Max Rates)

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of professional Data Science/ML experience.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
  • Strong Python/R/SAS and SQL skills.
  • Experience with machine learning, anomaly detection, pattern recognition, predictive modeling, clustering, and time-series analysis.
  • Healthcare experience with claims, clinical, member, provider, or operational data preferred.
  • Experience with Azure, Snowflake, MLOps, CI/CD, and production ML pipelines preferred.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master’s degree in a quantitative, computational, or engineering discipline.
  • Experience working with healthcare data, including claims, clinical, member, provider, financial, or operational datasets.
  • Hands-on experience developing anomaly detection or pattern recognition systems using supervised, semi-supervised, or unsupervised learning techniques.
  • Experience with advanced modeling approaches such as ensemble methods, deep learning, graph analytics, natural language processing, embeddings, or large language models.
  • Experience with CI/CD platforms and automated deployment workflows for analytical or machine learning applications.
  • Familiarity with MLOps practices including model registries, experiment tracking, automated testing, model versioning, deployment strategies, monitoring, observability, and model lifecycle management.
  • Experience with workflow and pipeline orchestration technologies used to automate data processing, model training, scoring, and deployment.
  • Experience integrating machine learning or analytical services with other technology systems through APIs, services, event-driven processes, databases, or enterprise applications.
  • Experience working in cloud-based analytics environments, particularly Azure and Snowflake.
  • Familiarity with containerization, infrastructure automation, or modern software engineering practices used to deploy and operate analytical workloads.
  • Experience troubleshooting complex analytical systems across data, model, pipeline, infrastructure, and application layers.
  • Ability to balance statistical rigor, technical scalability, explainability, maintainability, and business usability when designing analytical solutions.

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