Shouldn’t health coverage… keep people healthy?
At Harbor Health, we think so. But we may be a little biased—because Harbor Health didn’t start out as an insurance company. We started out by delivering 5-star healthcare in our very own Austin-based clinics.
But, like most folks, we felt that traditional health plans got in the way of good health. That’s why we decided to create our own.
Welcome to clinically-driven coverage: a new kind of health plan designed by Austin's leading doctors and innovators to keep our members on the smartest path to health— and save them money. It’s not impossible, it’s Harbor Health.
Brief Description
Senior Data Scientist
Harbor Health
This is a FULLY REMOTE position
Position Overview
Harbor Health runs both a health plan and a medical group, so data science here sits where cost, risk and care meet. We are hiring Senior Data Scientists to own whole problem areas, not slices of someone else's project: you define the questions that matter, build the analysis or model, put it in front of the people who act on it, and stay with it until the result is in use.
Right now those problem areas are risk adjustment and claims: how sick our members really are, and what is driving the cost of their care. Neither is solved yet, and both move real money. We hire for this profile on an ongoing basis, and the same kind of person will be needed in other parts of the business over time.
Position Duties & Responsibilities
- Take a vague question from actuarial, finance, operations or clinical leaders, work out the decision behind it, and turn it into a defined problem, a plan and a recommendation, without waiting to be steered.
- Build the data your work depends on: tables, pipelines and definitions in SQL, Python and dbt, working alongside analytics engineering.
- Answer the question with the method that fits, from a careful analysis to a forecast or a predictive model, and validate the result before anyone relies on it.
- Put the result in front of the people who act on it, as a dashboard, a work list for operations or a recommendation for leadership.
- Own what you ship: its accuracy, its documentation, and whether it gets used and moves a number you can size.
- Work directly with stakeholders and explain tradeoffs in plain language to technical and non-technical people.
- Use AI in your daily work, efficiently and responsibly, and share what works with the team.
Desired Professional Skills & Experience
- A drive toward complex problems. You choose the ones with messy data, disputed definitions and no playbook, and you stay with them until the business has an answer it can act on.
- High ownership of your own work. You carry it from the question to the data, the method, the validation and the hand-off, and you stay accountable for what happens after. You find and fix problems in your own work before others do.
- Fluency with AI agentic development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor or Codex. You plan, write, test and review with agents, check what they produce, and build repeatable workflows around them.
- Cross-functional partnership. You work directly with stakeholders in business, product and tech, and drive the work to a successful outcome independently.
- Typically 5+ years of hands-on data science, applied statistics or quantitative modeling, with strong SQL and Python. We work in Snowflake and dbt; experience on any modern cloud data platform transfers.
- Sound statistical judgment: you know which method fits the problem and how wrong the answer could be.
- The ability to size what your work changes: a cost, a rate, a capture rate.
- A bachelor's degree in a quantitative field or equivalent experience. An advanced degree is a plus.
Preferred
Relevant healthcare experience is preferred, not required. Any of these helps:
- Health plan, provider or value-based care analytics, with claims, eligibility or clinical data.
- Risk adjustment (HHS-HCC, CMS-HCC, RAF, EDGE, RADV), medical economics (PMPM, utilization, cost trend) or actuarial-adjacent work.
If you come from outside healthcare, for example insurance risk, credit or econometrics, and have solved comparable problems, we want to hear from you.
What We Offer
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision benefits
- 401(k) with company match
- Generous PTO and paid holidays
- Professional development and growth opportunities
Company Overview
At Harbor Health, we're transforming healthcare in Texas through collaboration and innovation. We're seeking passionate individuals to help us create a member-centered experience that connects comprehensive care with a modern payment model. If you're ready to make a meaningful impact in a dynamic environment where your contributions are valued, please bring your talents to our team!
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Harbor Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
