Data Scientist (Division of Biostatistics)

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Data Scientist (Division of Biostatistics)

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Job Description Summary

The Penn Center for Causal Inference (CCI), within the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, is seeking a full-time Data Scientist to support a research team of faculty members, postdoctoral researchers, students, and external collaborators. The Data Scientist will be responsible for the management of healthcare databases and other complex databases, as well as for the development, maintenance, and documentation of code. This role will collect and extract data using a variety of data extraction tools (e.g., web-scraping, data mining). S/he will independently carry out data management, visualization, wrangling, and analysis tasks. The Data Scientist will assist faculty, staff, and/or other academic researchers with collaborative high-density data projects, providing organization of tasks and workflows for programmatic needs as well as troubleshoot issues and identify solutions.

Job Description

Job duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Lead the design, development, implementation, testing, deployment, documentation, and maintenance of machine learning algorithms, applications, analysis pipelines, and results reporting methodologies using R and SAS (including R functions and SAS macros for data management and analysis support), and occasionally Python & SQL.

• Develop and deploy data cleaning, data management, variable creation, and variable naming protocols for various research projects.

• Create, link, and maintain customized databases and analytic datasets in collaboration with PIs and other members of the center.

• Identify inefficiencies in the programming and data management infrastructure and advise the center director and other PIs on potential solutions and alternatives.

• Function as a resource for center members to help debug programs and to access c