Johns Hopkins, founded in 1876, is America's first research university and home to nine world-class academic divisions working together as one university.
We are seeking a Data Scientist I who will support the management of complex databases as well as develop, maintain, and document code. The Data Scientist will collect and extract data using a variety of data extraction tools and carry out data management, visualization, and analysis tasks.
Specific Duties & Responsibilities
- Support the development of dashboards, calculations, and reports which may require programming.
- Support the development and tuning of machine learning models, which may require programming.
- Support the development of infrastructure for cleaning and processing data and running experiments to evaluate system performance.
- Mine various data resources for development of key metrics, performance indicators, and general business intelligence useful for planning and service design.
- Perform error analysis and suggest and implement improvements.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Wrangle and analyze Electronic Health Record data other real world data including health insurance claims.
- Use SQL, R and/or Python for statistical analysis.
- Apply best practices for real-world evidence principles, including bias, confounding, and study design considerations.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree.
- Four years of relevant quantitative research and analytics experience, with at least two of those years including complex programming experience.
- Additional education may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education beyond a high school diploma/graduation equivalent, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong proficiency in coding and data wrangling with SQL, R and/or Python for statistical analysis.
- Experience with econometrics techniques.
- Experience with electronic health records and cost related data such as claims.
- Real world evidence techniques including target trial emulation.
Technical Skills & Expected Level of Proficiency
- Continuous Improvement - Developing
- Data Architecture - Developing
- Data Management and Analysis - Developing
- Data Tools and Platforms - Developing
- Data Validation and Quality Assurance - Developing
- Data Visualization - Developing
- Machine Learning - Developing
- Oral and written communications - Developing
- Programming Languages - Developing
The core technical skills listed are most essential; additional technical skills may be required based on specific division or department needs.
Classified Title: Data Scientist I
Role/Level/Range: ATP/04/PG
Starting Salary Range: $102,295 - $179,375 Annually (Commensurate
w/exp.)
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: Monday to Friday: 9:00am – 5:00pm
FLSA Status: Exempt
Location: Hybrid/School of Public Health
Department name: Health Economics
Personnel area: School of Public Health
The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background check.
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