Data Scientist & Programmer - Remote

Working Location: PENNSYLVANIA, CENTER VALLEY; Nationwide 

Workplace Flexibility: Field

Are you looking for a company that cares about people’s lives and health, including yours? Let’s inspire healthier lives, together.

 

Olympus, a leading medical technology company, has focused on making people’s lives better for over 100 years.

Our Purpose is to make people’s lives healthier, safer, and more fulfilling.

 

Our Core Values are reflected in all we do: Integrity – Empathy – Agility – Unity – Long-Term View

 

We deliver on our purpose and our core values by staying True to Life.

Job Description

The Data scientist & programmer is a Subject Matter Expert (SME) that will play a pivotal role in supporting organizing, and continuously improving quality system processes and information managed through global systems and tools of the Global CAPA & NC department at Olympus across Americas, EMEA, Japan, China, and APAC region.

 

The Data scientist and programmer is responsible for delivering data strategy that includes principles and best practices on data model designs, database development standards, implementation and management of data warehouses and data analytics systems, providing tools and solutions, data insights and visibility to CAPA and NC processes.

 

The Data scientist and programmer is also responsible for managing the data services activities and designing data governance within the Olympus digital unit function. They are also responsible for maintaining the highest levels of data competency, data policies, data usage, data quality and reporting capabilities across the organization.

 

The Data scientist and programmer is responsible to translate business needs into requirements, tool development, facilitating user validation, conducting end-user training, authoring system, and process documentation, performing data analysis, and actively engaging with stakeholders.

Job Duties

• Serves an as subject matter expert, understanding business requirements and technical capabilities of the business system tools to be developed or in use.
• Conduct in-depth analysis of existing business processes, systems, and data to identify areas for Improvement and develop Power BI, dashboards, queries, and reports in support of NC and CAPAS.
• Utilize data analysis tools and techniques to extract, cleans, and analyze data from various sources to identify trends, patterns, and anomalies in data to inform decision-making.
• Collaborates with business users, internal technology teams across Olympus translating business needs into requirements, tool development, facilitating user validation, conducting end-user training, authoring system, and process documentation, performing data analysis, and actively engaging with stakeholders.
• Supports gathering and documenting business requirements with stakeholders globally.
• Analyses the feasibility of, and develops requirements for, new systems / tools and enhancements to existing systems/tools; from a business and technology perspective to ensure the system design fits the needs of the users.
• Translates business requirements into clear and comprehensive functional specifications that are understandable to the end-users.
• Provides training, guidance, and is a resource support for end users.
• Support Internal and External audits with Data and reporting. 

Job Qualifications

Required:

• BA/BS engineering, scientific, computer science, statistics discipline. Black Belt / Green Belt.
• Minimum of 8 years of related experience analyzing, clarifying, and translating business requirements into functional and technical specifications.
• Experience supporting or working within a pharma, medical device, or any other regulatory controlled industry.
• Proficiency in data analysis tools and techniques (e.g., SQL, Excel, data visualization tools);
• Competent with Microsoft Office 365 Suite, Visio, Adobe, DocuSign, Agile and Windows platforms. Proficient in web-based programming languages (any of JS, TS, Go, C#)
• Familiarity with basic statistical analysis
• Familiarity with writing database queries (e.g. MySQL, Postgres, etc.). Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Visually oriented with strong graphic design portfolio
• Global working hours. Occasionally international travel

 

Preferred:

• Continuous improvement techniques and/or demonstrated problem-solving and root ca