Data Scientist Consultant

About Us

TBD Solutions Inc is an employee-owned, national consultancy specializing in systems transformation across behavioral health, human services, and healthcare. We partner with governmental, nonprofit, and for-profit organizations to provide strategic decision support, analysis, and implementation guidance.

About the Role

TBD Solutions is seeking a Data Scientist Consultant to join our Analytics & Technology team. This position combines technical expertise, analytical thinking, and strong interpersonal skills to develop data products that represent real-world issues and inform critical decisions.

The Data Scientist Consultant works directly with clients to understand business and healthcare needs and translate them into meaningful models, analyses, visualizations, and reporting solutions. The position also contributes to the continued advancement of TBD Solutions’ analytics capabilities through the effective application of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze and interpret complex datasets to inform planning and decision-making.
• Design and develop data models, dashboards, reports, and interactive visualizations.
• Apply statistical and machine-learning methods to complex business and healthcare challenges.
• Develop well-designed, documented, tested, and production-ready analytical code using tools such as R and Python.
• Work with diverse data sources and cloud-based technologies to clean, transform, integrate, and analyze data.
• Translate technical findings into clear, actionable information for clients and non-technical audiences.
• Manage project scopes, milestones, workflows, and deliverables in alignment with client objectives.
• Apply AI technologies and AI-assisted tools to analytics, reporting, workflows, and data solutions while identifying opportunities for continued innovation.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree from a regionally accredited institution, or equivalent internationally recognized institution, with applicable professional experience.
• At least 2 years of experience developing dashboards and reporting solutions, creating data models using SQL, implementing data transformation workflows, conducting statistical analysis, or applying statistical or machine-learning methods.
• Experience with analytical and statistical programming tools such as R or Python, relational databases, data modeling, and interactive data visualization.
• Knowledge of healthcare data and appropriate handling of protected healthcare information.
• Strong project management, organizational, interpersonal, and written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present complex information clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively while adapting to changing project and client needs.
• Experience with cloud computing platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform; Azure experience is preferred.
• Experience applying AI technologies or AI-assisted tools to analytics, reporting, or solution development is strongly preferred, along with demonstrated initiative in learning and applying emerging technologies.
• Experience in healthcare, behavioral health, human services, or working with governmental entities, insurance plans, trade associations, or nonprofit organizations is preferred.

Work Environment & Benefits

This is a full-time, salary-plus-hourly position. Full-time employees receive a guaranteed minimum of 22 payable hours per week on a monthly salary basis, with hours worked beyond the minimum compensated at the employee’s standard hourly rate.

TBD Solutions supports a fully remote environment. The position requires flexibility to occasionally meet obligations outside normal business hours and may include some travel to client sites.

Job Type

Full-time

Pay: $78.75 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Application Question(s):

• Describe your experience developing client relationships and contributing to business development or professional visibility. Examples may include developing concept papers or proposals, identifying opportunities with existing clients, presenting at conferences or workshops, participating in professional forums, or developing professional content.

Please provide responses in your own words without the help of artificial intelligence (AI). Good consultants must be able to have excellent impromptu communication. We reserve the right to eliminate those using AI responses from further consideration.

• What about TBD Solutions and this position is specifically appealing to you? How does this position fit into your career development?

Please provide responses in your own words without the help of artificial intelligence (AI). Good consultants must be able to have excellent impromptu communication. We reserve the right to eliminate those using AI responses from further consideration.

• Do you have professional experience developing dashboards, reports, or data visualizations using Power BI, Tableau, R Shiny, or comparable tools?
• In your ideal position, approximately what percentage of your time would involve hands-on coding and/or working directly with data? Briefly describe how you would prefer to spend the remainder of your time.

Education:

• Master's (Required)

Experience:

• Healthcare, behavioral health, or human services analytics: 1 year (Preferred)
• Client-facing consulting: 1 year (Preferred)
• Cloud-based data/analytics platforms (e.g., Microsoft Azure): 1 year (Preferred)
• AI-enabled analytics, machine learning, or AI data solutions: 1 year (Preferred)
• Presenting technical findings to non-technical stakeholders: 1 year (Preferred)
• data science, data analytics, BI, or a closely related field: 2 years (Required)
• using R, Python, or similar analytical/statistical languages: 1 year (Required)
• using SQL to query, transform, analyze, or model data: 2 years (Required)

Work Location: Remote