Data Scientist

Company: Alpha Consulting
Location: Remote
Posted on: March 17, 2023

Job Description:

DATA SCIENTIST Remote. Project Description:

• Data Science and Analytics is an ambitious team of Data Scientists and Data Engineers with a unique blend of Business, Scientific, and Machine Learning expertise that seeks to unleash the full potential of the Client's data assets by bringing technology and/or data and insights to the forefront of decision making via fit-for-purpose solutions.
• The Data Scientist role in Business Analytics role enables application of advanced analytics techniques across clinical development processes.
• Translates business and operational challenges into data-driven insights and experimental questions.
• Drives Analytics innovation and experimentation to enable data-driven insights for complex business problems across R&D by deploying advanced analytics techniques like Machine Learning and Visual Analytics.
  • Connects with cross-functional teams to design work product and as an analytics consultant.
  • Anticipates and identifies issues that could affect timelines or quality and develops options and solutions.
  • Leads and helps establish the design principles and standards to ensure analytical work product is consistent across projects where appropriate and that user experience is optimized.
  • In addition to standard statistical methods, develops prototypes, test methods and algorithms.
  • Leverages emerging statistical methodologies, ML and AI to drive innovative analytical solutions to create insights.
  • Enables data-driven insights to support of clinical development continuum, including precision medicine.
  • Ensures adherence to federal regulations and applicable local regulations, Good Clinical Practices (GCPs), ICH Guidelines, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and to functional quality standards.
  • Stays abreast of new and/or evolving local regulations, guidelines and policies related to clinical development.
  • Identify business needs and support the creation of standard KPIs, reports, and statistical analyses.
  • Responsible for coaching and mentoring junior team members.
  • Work side by side with cross-functional teams as an analytics consultant to strategize on how analytics can help evaluate the progress of clinical trials, as well as facilitate discussions around emerging risks; Applies machine learning techniques to validate assumptions and predict future behavior. Required Skills:
    • Bachelor's degree statistics, analytics, bioinformatics, data science or equivalent field, Master's degree preferred.
    • Must have 3-5 years of analytics-related experience in clinical research including demonstrated high-level analytics and leadership competencies.
    • Advanced career level proficiency in R, Python, or other statistical packages. Intermediate-level knowledge of statistical and data mining techniques.
    • Expert proficiency with visualization tools like Spotfire, Tableau or equivalent.
    • Proven expertise with Machine Learning and other advanced analytics techniques.
    • Demonstrated effective communication skills.
    • Demonstrated ability to communicate analytical and technical concepts in layman's terms.
    • Demonstrated problem-solving and analytical skills.
    • Demonstrated history of successful execution in a fast-paced environment and in managing multiple priorities effectively.
    • Experience working in Cloud Computing environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, etc.) is preferred.
    • Most critically, we need someone with BI tool experience and Spotfire and Tableau preferred. This 12+month position starts ASAP. Please E-MAIL your resume (attachment to email) with rate and availability to Bridget: ALPHA'S REQUIREMENT #23-00498 MUST BE ELIGIBLE TO WORK IN THE U.S. AS AN HOURLY W2 EMPLOYEE

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