Associate Data Scientist

Job Description

Assists the leadership to advance data science strategy and programs; works collaboratively with both Information Technology members and the clinical community to evaluate and implement data science projects, systems and initiatives at both the department and the enterprise level. Our team is focuses on data engineering, software engineering, data analytics, and data science in the healthcare space. We are passionate about using modern technology in the cloud to create meaningful and actionable solutions that improve clinical and operational integration. We are a team of agile, team-oriented individuals who are committed to working together to achieve our goals. We value creativity, innovation, and a willingness to learn new things. We are a team of passionate and innovative individuals who are committed to making a difference in the healthcare industry. We offer a challenging and rewarding work environment where you can use your skills to make a real impact on the lives of patients.

Job Responsibility

• Assists to design, implement, and maintain data science models and applications. 
• Assists on programs to apply data science methodologies, including predictive modeling and machine learning, data analytics and visualization, and usability and design, to departmental, service line, and enterprise applications and functions. 
• Synthesizes complex data-related problems into actionable business and/or clinical strategy, and communicate findings to appropriate end-users and stakeholders. 
• Assists with the development of specifications to support the design of new or modified data science projects, with a focus on data-driven optimization, enhancement, and development. 
• Assists in the evaluation of projects, systems, and initiatives at the department, service line, and enterprise level; ensures projects and their outputs enhance clinical quality, patient safety, and institutional efficiency, focusing on all aspects of data science, including data gathering and wrangling, exploratory data analysis, data modeling and machine learning, and model implementation and evaluation; ensures high quality execution of all proposed projects. 
• Knowledgeable in present and planned data science projects and maintains voice of the customer in all project initiatives. 
• Assists to serve as the link between the clinical staff (customer) requirements and IS capabilities. 
• Assists in ensuring that systems are implemented to support organization initiatives and goals to improve the quality of patient care, to maximize patient safety, and to provide operational efficiencies. 
• Assists to serves as a resource to the leadership; demonstrates familiarity with current hospital information systems. 
• Operates with direct guidance and work assignments are generally straightforward and of moderate complexity. 
• Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related are not essential functions.

Job Qualification

• Bachelor's Degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• 0-1 years of relevant experience, required.

Preferred Skillsets/Experience

• Highly proficient in Python, SQL
• Deep understanding of Natural Language Processing algorithms
• Strong programmatic experience with Hugging Face, Ray, FastAPI, Weights and Biases
• Strong experience in information retrieval
• Experience with Large Language Models in production a plus
• Deep understanding of data structures, data modeling, software architecture, software engineering
• Prior experience working with data pipeline tools.
• Experience working in Agile teams preferred.
• Applied experience and knowledge of Infrastructure as Code required - Terraform experience preferred.
• GCP Cloud Data Engineering Certification
• Experience with FHIR or Healthcare data sets preferred, but not required

*Additional Salary Detail
The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).