Applied AI Health Data System Engineer-Senior Manager at PwC
Charlotte, NC
$124,000–$280,000from the description
Jul 27, 2026
Charlotte, NC
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Senior Manager role on PwC's Applied AI Health System Engineering team, responsible for leading the design and delivery of AI, GenAI, and ML solutions for health system and health plan clients. Day-to-day work spans architecting RAG pipelines, agentic AI workflows, and MLOps frameworks against clinical data sources, while managing a global data science team and engaging health system executives to align AI initiatives with clinical and operational priorities. Best suited to a senior healthcare data science leader with deep health IT domain knowledge and hands-on production AI delivery experience.
Senior level · 12+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $122,874 (middle half $87,544–$162,374). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
No specific work location is stated in the posting beyond '#LI-Hybrid'; no CBSA or state could be determined. The compensation range ($124,000–$280,000/year) is unusually wide, which PwC attributes to variation in individual skills, experience, and location across multiple possible office sites.
The role is titled 'Senior Manager,' which at PwC is a defined level above Senior but below Partner/Principal. It carries people management, global team oversight, and executive client engagement responsibilities. The seniority band is assessed as Senior (not Staff/Principal) because the scope is a single practice area rather than org-wide technical authority.
The alt SOC (15-1252 Software Developers) reflects that the role involves hands-on architecture and production engineering of AI/ML systems, not just analysis — the primary classification as 15-2051 Data Scientists was chosen because healthcare data science, modeling, and ML/GenAI solution design are the dominant described activities.
Python is listed under 'What You Must Have' only implicitly via the required 12 years of experience and healthcare AI context; it is explicitly named under Preferred Knowledge/Skills. It has been marked required given the firm language ('Python-based development') in the preferred section and its centrality to all described technical work.
Most specific frameworks and cloud services (LangChain, LlamaIndex, Pinecone, Azure OpenAI, SageMaker, Snowflake, Databricks, Claude, Git, CI/CD, MLOps, Deep Learning) appear under 'Preferred Knowledge/Skills' or 'What Sets You Apart' and are marked accordingly.
The '6-7 years of experience at a health system' requirement is a domain-experience gate, not a technology skill; it is captured in the overall years minimum (12 years overall) and noted here as a meaningful sub-requirement the posting hard-gates on.
HIPAA compliance and PHI-handling experience are called out repeatedly as requirements but name no specific tool; they are omitted from the skills list per the no-generic-concepts rule.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Azure Health Data Services.
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