What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Scientist position at VaxCare?
ABOUT VAXCARE
VaxCare is a vaccine dispensing platform that leverages proprietary technology to improve immunization rates and overall vaccine program profitability. We are problem solvers at heart. We love to tackle challenges with an analytical spin, and we are constantly looking for ways to employ new technologies to develop tools and solutions that help accomplish our vision of getting the right medications to the right patients at every encounter.
THE POSITION
VaxCare is currently seeking an experienced Data Scientist to work within our Data Analytics team. The ideal candidate should have experience solving critical business problems in a data driven way with the ability to communicate results clearly to key stakeholders.
The Data Scientist will be responsible for working with key members within VaxCare to prepare proprietary data for real-world evidence research and publications both in conjunction with various internal and external stakeholders. This includes building analytics pipelines and complex logic for complicated data projects that solve tangible research use cases. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in mathematics, statistics, and communication with a genuine curiosity to learn new technologies and techniques. They must be comfortable working with domain experts to improve business outcomes and have a passion for solving difficult problems.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive business solutions and prepare data for research and publication initiatives.
- Ability and interest to do research, design of experiments and publish papers.
- Effectively partner with customer-facing teams to reconcile client requirements with the capabilities of datasets available at VaxCare.
- Illustrate the ideas underlying model development to a range of audiences: technical and non-technical, internal and external, academic research and marketing.
Develop end-to-end algorithms for productized models: model specs, training data generation, testing and parameter tuning.
- Coordinate with different functional teams to implement models and monitor outcomes.
- Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance and data accuracy.
- Harness a good understanding of the healthcare datasets at VaxCare and client use-cases to effectively partner with data engineering teams for architectural decisions
- Create a plan with the team to scale our solutions, automate code and centralize complex logic. Advocated for good engineering practices within the team like documentation and code reusability
- Present findings, insights and analytical results to internal partners for client deliveries, as well as the larger DS function for continued growth and learning
DESIRED EXPERIENCE
- Minimum 2 years of experience in a data scientist role.
- Have a few published paper and familiarity to write manuscripts and papers.
- Have a Master or PhD.
- Ability to do exploratory analysis on large volumes of data and find key descriptive and inferential properties.
- Strong problem-solving skills with an emphasis on product development.
- Experienced with development tools and data cataloging, search, analysis, visualization, and reporting tools such as Power BI and Tableau.
- Knowledge of a variety of machine learning techniques (clustering, decision tree learning, artificial neural networks, etc.) and their real-world advantages/drawbacks.
- Knowledge of advanced statistical techniques and concepts (regression, properties of distributions, statistical tests and proper usage, etc.) and experience with applications.
- Strong SQL skills.
- Experience using statistical programming languages (R, Python) to manipulate data and gain insights.
- Experience working with Databricks, Microsoft Azure (or similar cloud platform) and Salesforce is a plus.
Note: Team Members in this position will be responsible for implementing and acting in accordance with VaxCare’s information security policies; protecting assets from unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, destruction or interference; executing specific security processes or activities as assigned by the Information Security and/ or Privacy officers; and reporting security events or potential security risks to the organization.
