Sr Data Scientist

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Location: Remote

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ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organisation. From molecule to medicine, we advance clinical research providing outsourced services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and government and public health organisations.

With our patients at the centre of all that we do, we help to accelerate the development of drugs and devices that save lives and improve quality of life.

Our people are our greatest strength, are at the core of our culture, and the driving force behind our success. ICON people have a mission to succeed and a passion that ensures what we do, we do well.

Responsibilities

The Sr. Data Scientist is responsible for aggregating and analyzing data to create actionable insights to drive business results. Uses advanced statistical techniques to provide deeper understanding of customer profile, behavior and actions and collaborates with other data science teams, business partners across business units to recommend customer experience/service improvements across the enterprise. Delivers key data driven insights and recommends actions.

The ability to run turn-key analytics from data acquisition, data prep, analysis, and reporting of results
  • Work with customer and sales to understand the question(s) they would like to understand from their data.
  • Work with sales to determine what potential product the customer is looking for (dashboard, modeling, statistical analysis, text mining, etc.)
  • Work with customer’s domain expert to understand the data for proper data preparation before analysis.
  • Work in collaboration with ETL experts to Transform and Prepare the data for Analysis.
  • Analyze customers data to drive customer satisfaction.
  • Create Visualizations and report to articulate technical results back to the customer in a way that is easy to understand.
Assist in development of automating predictive modeling products.
Assist in development of text analysis products.
Collaborate with ETL/Data Prep experts to make the entire data flow and iterations more efficient.

Qualifications

Qualifications:
  • 5+ years of experience working with real data in a professional environment.
  • 5+ years of programming experience.
  • 5+ years of experience working with patient-level data including working with systems and solutions for requesting anonymized, patient data from clinical studies.
  • 5+ years of professional experience with advanced analytics utilizing overall patient level data including outcomes research.
  • Experience leading teams of data scientists, developers, or analysts.
  • BS/MS in a quantitative discipline: Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics.
  • To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Expertise in at least one statistical software package, preferably R or SAS JMP.
  • Advanced skills in a scripting language such as Python, R, or Java
  • Ability to utilize existing packages in these languages.
  • Good Understanding of Machine Learning techniques.
  • Regression, Classification, Clustering.
  • Proficiency in SQL.
  • Knowledge and/or understanding of statistical, open source and/or enterprise level ETL and Analytics tools and practices for effectively applying them.
  • Strong computer skills.
  • Strong skills in MS Office, in particular Excel and PowerPoint.
  • Ability to analyze a problem and design paths to potential solutions to help companies make better decisions.
  • Ability to consider multiple levels of the causes and effects of potential solutions.
  • Ability to interpret complex business problems to technical problems, and solutions.
  • Able to translate business objectives into actionable analyses.
  • Able to communicate findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Attention to details that are critical in arriving to correct conclusions.
  • Ability to work collaboratively and effectively with a dynamic project team members (Project manager, business analyst, developers, and management team).
  • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
  • Organized and flexible team player that is able to assess priorities, multi-task, and meet deadlines.

Benefits of Working in ICON:


Our success depends on the knowledge, capabilities and quality of our people. That’s why we are committed to developing our employees in a continuous learning culture – one where we challenge you with engaging work and where every experience adds to your professional development.

At ICON, our focus is to provide you with a comprehensive and competitive total reward package that comprises, not only an excellent level of base pay, but also a wide range of variable pay and recognition programs. In addition, our best in class employee benefits, supportive policies and wellbeing initiatives are tailored to support you and your family at all stages of your career - both now, and into the future.

ICON, including subsidiaries, is an equal opportunity and inclusive employer and is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know.

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