MMS is hiring a
Senior Data Scientist, Remote - United States

Summary

The job is for a Data Science professional at MMS, a CRO in the pharmaceutical industry. Responsibilities include key activities from pre-discovery to value realization, educating stakeholders on data science methodology, conducting peer reviews, and providing guidance on data science methodologies. Requirements include a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Statistics or Computer Science with 5+ years of related work experience, understanding of CROs and the drug development process, ability to develop R and/or Python scripts, knowledge of R-Shiny, moderate experience with machine learning and natural language processing, good communication skills, ability to develop processes and standard work, in-depth understanding of database structure principles, proven work experience as a Data Architect, Data Scientist, or similar role, excellent problem-solving skills, and app development is desired.

Requirements

• Bachelors in Engineering, Statistics or Computer Science with 5 or more years' related work experience or a Master's degree with typically 3 or more years' or a PhD degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Understanding of CROs and/ or Health Systems and scientific and clinical data/terminology, and the drug development process
• Experience in preparing, correcting, modifying and analyzing data sets using complex analytic techniques and statistical methodology
• Ability to develop R and/or Python scripts for data manipulation and analysis
• Knowledge of R-Shiny preferred
• Moderate experience with machine learning and natural language processing
• Good communication skills and wiliness to work with others to clearly understand needs and solve problems
• Ability to develop processes and standard work
• A tolerance for organizational complexity and work collaboratively
• In-depth understanding of database structure principles
• Proven work experience as a Data Architect, Data Scientist, Data Analyst or similar role
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• App development desired

Responsibilities

• Proficiency in data science delivery methodologies
• Responsible for key activities and deliverables from pre-discovery, delivery and value realization
• Educate stakeholders on Data Science methodology to support the development of appropriate goals and objectives
• Responsible for conducting peer reviews, validation steps for others within the team
• Strong knowledge of the key technical and non-technical roles needed to support Data Science project end-to-end
• Understanding of Data Science solution architectures, databases, programming tools and visualization technologies
• Strong experience with key programming and visualization tools like Java, R, SQL and Power BI
• Strong knowledge of data structures, data sources, and data engineering tools and techniques
• Provide guidance on the decision to choose best-fit data science methodology (statistics, machine learning, optimization, simulation) given the data and applications to achieve goals and objectives
• Ability to engage with stakeholders throughout the project
• Support the effort to determine stakeholders’ needs and ensures business value is realized
• Regularly communicate, advise, and collaborate with project manager
• Support deployment teams to deliver decision support visualizations and dashboards