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We are a national staffing firm and are currently seeking a Data Scientist for a prominent client of ours. This position is located in New Brunswick, NJ. Details for the position are as follows:
Job Description:
**HYBRID (3 days required onsite)**
[SCHEDULE: 8 hours a day, may work earlier in the day or later in the day based on working with EMEA]
- This position on the Behavior Change Intelligence team will closely partner with other functions to provide data science expertise in service of the company and strategic customers, with a specific focus on health and data solutions.
- The Data Scientist is required to ensure consistency of scientific methodologies and efficient utilization of resources.
- This position will report to the Director, Behavior Science and will closely partner with other functional leaders.
- Key Job Responsibilities:
- Analyze healthcare data, run descriptive statistics, generate prior distributions, explore relationships: Correlation, covariance, causality, structural equation modeling, and build Bayesian Influence diagrams.
- Develop predictive models with Deep Learning networks, Gradient Boosting, Random Forest, SVM, LDA, decision tree, and logistic regression using both generative and discriminative algorithms.
- Sub-group analysis: clustering, agglomerative clustering, graph-based clustering, and PCA analysis.
- Define and develop features, selections (Ridge/Lasso), and ranking.
- Standardize nominal, categorical, and numerical data to ensure data integrity.
- Develop algorithms in order to achieve the desired health outcomes, and improved health behavior in Big data environment SPARK and SCALA.
- Partner with scientists and business leaders to collect and organize healthcare data, and generate insights for thought leadership.
- Work with project leaders to roll out algorithms and build dashboards to visualize near real-time insights for targeted audience including scientists and commercial partners.
Qualifications:
- PhD
- 3+ years of experience with data analytics
- Public health/epidemiology background ideal
- Proficiency in data analytics (cluster/subgrouping, predictive modeling)
- Experience using multiple/big datasets to generate business insights
- SCALA, SPARK, or other data modeling (tableau, etc..)
- Evidence of translating data analytics
Compensation: Up to $60 an hour depending on experience
