Sr Principal Data Scientist Digital Health

Sr. Principal Data Scientist - Digital Health

At Alcon we are driven by the meaningful work we do to help people see brilliantly. We innovate boldly champion progress and act with speed as the global leader in eye care. Here youll be recognized for your commitment and contributions and see your career like never before. Together we go above and beyond to make an impact in the lives of our patients and customers.

We foster an inclusive culture and are looking for diverse talented people to join Alcon. As a Sr. Principal Data Scientist - Digital Health supporting Data Science-Digital Health Team you will be trusted to lead an AI Center of Excellence (CoE) and drive platform scalability reusability and innovation across business this role you will design and deliver AI/Gen AI platforms products and services that enable digital product development and inform critical business decisions. You will work in an agile environment partnering with product managers data engineers and business stakeholders.

We are a fast-growing team which will give you the opportunity to shape our ways of working and culture - think start-up but inside a global leader in eye care. We are looking for someone who is a strategic thinker and problem solver. This will be at our Fort Worth TX office.

In this role a typical day will include:

• Lead the AI Center of Excellence (CoE) to drive platform capabilities scalability and reusability across business units.
• Architect and operationalize modular reusable AI/ML and GenAI products on Alcons digital health data platform.
• Provide solution architecture guidance for AI/GenAI initiatives ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and seamless integration.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (data engineering product and business stakeholders) to define requirements design solutions and deliver analytics use cases.
• Drive AI/GenAI operationalization and MLOps practices enabling secure scalable and efficient deployment of AI solutions.
• Stay ahead of AI/ML and GenAI innovations continuously improving platform capabilities and advocating for data-driven decision-making.
• Mentor and coach junior data scientists and analysts fostering a culture of creativity collaboration and engineering excellence.

WHAT YOULL BRING TO ALCON:

• Bachelors Degree or Equivalent years of directly related experience (or high school15 yrs. Assoc.11 yrs.; M.S.4 yrs.; PhD3 yrs.)
• The ability to fluently read write understand and communicate in English
• 7 Years of Relevant Experience

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Knowledge/experience in a quantitative discipline (Statistics Data Science Computer Science Engineering or related field).
  Experience developing advanced analytics and ML models to solve complex business challenges.
• Deep expertise in AI/ML methods including theory mathematics and practical application.
• Hands-on experience with GenAI application development (e.g. chatbots AI agents) using structured and unstructured data.
  Experience in MLOps and AI/GenAI Ops including end-to-end development deployment and operationalization of AI solutions.
• Proven experience designing and implementing cloud-based analytics solutions (AWS Azure or GCP) and solution architecture for AI/ML products.
• Proficiency in Python SQL and familiarity with BI/dashboarding tools (e.g. Tableau React).
  Experience in healthcare and related data analytics use cases
• Experience in building and launching large scale AI-based software products.

HOW YOU CAN THRIVE AT ALCON:

• See your career like never before with focused growth and development opportunities
• Join Alcons mission to provide outstanding innovative products and solutions to improve sight improve lives and grow your career!
• Alcon provides robust benefits package including health life retirement flexible time off for exempt associates PTO for hourly associates and much more!

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Alcon takes pride in maintaining an inclusive environment that values different perspectives and our policies are non-discriminatory in recruitment hiring training promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race color religion gender national origin age sexual orientation marital or veteran status disability or any other legally protected status. Alcon is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If because of a medical condition or disability you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process or in order to perform the essential functions of a position please send an email to and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.