Job Description :
Overview
Technology is at the heart of everything we do at St. Jude. The mission of St. Jude Information Services is to transform the use of technology today to meet the demands of tomorrow through outstanding service, collaboration, leadership and innovation that supports the St. Jude vision of finding cures, saving children. The Information Services department is currently seeking a highly motivated Senior Data Scientist to join the team. If you ready to make a major impact utilizing state-of-the-art technologies, we encourage you to apply today!
Responsibilities
The Data Scientist role will have a direct impact on analytics needs of the entire institution, utilizing state-of-the-art technologies. This position will be responsible for using data to unlock trends and key insights that are critical for the success of St. Jude operations. This role will be expected to gain significant domain knowledge across administrative, clinical and basic science areas and help them make effective data based decisions. Will need to develop presentations, charts and graphs to effectively communicate and illustrate results of key-findings, data analysis and data/science models as well as present them to customers including executive leadership teams. Will collaborate with Sr. Data Architect and play a significant role in maturing the platform infrastructure required to perform data science projects at scale. Perform all data pre-processing steps including but not limited to collecting data in collaboration with Data Engineers, data cleansing, normalization, feature selection and dimensionality reduction. Develop machine learning models or use stochastic models. Document all technical and business aspects associated with each project.
Minimum Education
Bachelor''s degree in Computer Science/Computer Engg/Mathematics/Health Care or other related fields is required. Master''s degree in Statistics/Mathematics/Business Analytics or related fields is required
Minimum Experience
Four (4) years of experience in data analytics/reporting required with an additional three (3) years of experience in exclusive data science role required. Clinical/Health Care domain experience preferred. Must possess experience with large scale data science projects involving operations research. Must possess implementation experience of data science solutions using R/Python/Scala, Matlab, RapidMiner, SAS, Spark, Excel or related technologies
Required Credentials
None
Other Credentials
R/Python/Data Scientist/other related certifications Preferred
EEO Statement
St. Jude is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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