WELLTOWER – REIMAGINE REAL ESTATE WITH US
At Welltower, we’re transforming how the world thinks about senior living and wellness-focused real estate. As a global leader in residential wellness and healthcare infrastructure, we create vibrant, purpose-driven communities where housing, healthcare, and hospitality converge. Our culture is fast-paced, collaborative, and endlessly ambitious—guided by our mantra: The only easy day was yesterday.
We’re looking for bold, independent thinkers who thrive on challenge, embrace complexity, and are driven to deliver long-term value. Every team member is empowered to think like an owner, innovate fearlessly, and lead from where they stand. If you're passionate about outcomes and inspired by the opportunity to shape the future of healthcare infrastructure, we want you on our best-in-class team.
About The Role
Welltower’s Senior Data Scientist is someone who makes value out of data. This resource will work with the current data science team and integrate information from various sources and analyzes it for better understanding about how the business performance can be enhanced, and to analyze output from AI tools that automate certain processes within the company. The Senior Data Scientist will report to the Lead Data Scientist and help us discover the information hidden in vast amounts of data, and help us make smarter decisions. The primary focus of this role will be in applying data engineering and predictive analytics techniques, doing statistical analysis, and building high quality prediction systems integrated with our business model.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist the Business Insights team with Welltower’s data and analytics strategy and predictive analytics application across Welltower.
- Work on creating predictive models and solutions to consume data for the purpose of analytics.
- Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques
- Data mining using state-of-the-art methods
- Extending company’s data with third party sources of information as and when needed
- Analyzing the output of the predictive analytics model to make meaningful information valuable to Welltower investment process
- Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems
- Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
- Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of this employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
TRAVEL
Minimal travel to other Welltower office locations is possible.
Minimum Requirements
Experience:
- Knowledge of the data and analytics landscape and with at least 3 years of work experience
- Strong technical skills to include a deep understanding of (but not limited to): Reporting, Programming, Predictive Modeling, and Solution Architect.
- Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as Neural Networks, etc.
- Experience with common data science toolkits, such as R, MatLab, Python etc. Excellence in at least one of these is highly desirable
- Experience with data mining and data visualization tools, such as Alteryx, Tableau etc.
- Good applied statistics skills, such as distributions, correlation, statistical testing, regression, etc
- Good communication skills and data oriented personality
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with business and technology partners.
- Familiarity with Real Estate and Healthcare industries systems and specialist in business consolidation in diverse source systems.
- Knowledge of enterprise profitability and business planning and forecasting.
Education
- PhD in Mathematics or Statistics or Economics with a focus on Predictive Analytics solution. Background in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Statistics or related field is required.
Competencies
Corporate:
- Quality of Work
- Productivity
- Communication and Teamwork
- Initiative and Leadership
- Customer Focus / Service
- Technical
- Analytical
- Financial Acumen
- Mathematical Acumen
- Statistical Knowledge
Metrics For Measuring Success
- Build predictive analytics model and improve the accuracy of the result set
- Support initiatives affecting Welltower’s data and analytics solutions
- Welltower’s data is protected and monitored against misuse and loss, and senior management is regularly assured of this, with no breaches occurring
Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check, drug screening, and verification of employment, education, and other credentials relevant to the position.
What We Offer
- Competitive Base Salary + Annual Bonus
- Generous Paid Time Off and Holidays
- Employee Stock Purchase Progr