ASTART Data Scientist III

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A Brief Overview

This position will work closely with principal investigator (PI) to lead day-to-day operations and long-term planning for a diverse adolescent medicine substance-use research portfolio with the goal of improving outcomes for children with substance-use disorder and establishing CHOP as a leader in the field. The identified candidate for this position must have comprehensive experience in formal and applied research including a technical data science skillset as well as expertise in primary and secondary data research methods. Experience leading research teams and managing research staff required. Clinical experience and a background in injury or substance use research strongly preferred. Candidate will conceive, propose and perform data analysis and modeling to assess and support clinical care, population health surveillance, and translational science research projects. Additional responsibilities include leading the experimental design, execution, and critical evaluation of methods using a flexible analytical approach and serving as a research, data science, and analytics team lead and technical project lead on multidisciplinary teams that include clinicians and biomedical researchers. Candidate will interact with other scientists both within CHOP and at other institutions and will serve as a resource for colleagues and less experience.

What you will do

• Coordinate with PI to develop long-term research agenda and strategy
• Lead the formulation of analysis plans that meet stringent criteria for reproducibility and validity
• Communicate and educate a varied audience of clinicians, scientists, analysts, and programmers on research methods, implementation, and results
• Serve as scientific lead in collaborative development with research group
• Mentor junior staff, student workers, and research trainees (fellows, post-docs)
• Contribute to manuscript writing for results publication, authors abstracts, and presents at professional conferences
• Manage large, complex projects and take responsibility for major components of larger research initiatives; assign work to junior staff, identifying, tracking, and reporting on tasks and deliverables against project timelines.

Education Qualifications

• Master's Degree Required
• Doctorate Analytics, Data Science, Statistics, Epidemiology, or a related field. Preferred

Experience Qualifications

• At least five (5) years experience with progressively more complex data science and applied statistics Required
• At least three (3) years experience leading/managing a research team Required
• Clinical experience Strongly Preferred
• Injury/substance-use research experience Strongly Preferred

Skills and Abilities

• Experience and demonstrated ability acquiring new technical/analytic skills and domain knowledge to support successful contribution to research and development projects Required
• Experience formulating or contributing to the formulation of analysis plans and selection of appropriate methods.
• Experience using existing analytic tools such as Stata, SAS, ArcGIS, Weka, R, and Mathematica in either applied educational or professional projects Required
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills with the demonstrated ability to explain complex technical concepts to a lay audience Required
• Excellent organizational skills Required
• Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills Required
• Familiarity with relational databases (e.g. Postgres, MySQL) Strongly Preferred
• Applied statistics or mathematical modeling experience Preferred
• Natural language processing experience particularly in the biological and medical domains Preferred
• Experience creating informative visualizations for complex, high dimensional data Preferred
• Experience with probabilistic models, time series predictive models, Markov models Preferred

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SALARY RANGE:

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