R Data Scientist — Health Analytics & Dashboards

VE3; Greater London; In loco; GBP 45.000 - 60.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

A health analytics firm in the UK is seeking a Data Scientist to support the Public Health Agency (NI). The role focuses on developing health data products and analytical outputs mainly using R within an Azure-based environment. Responsibilities include building dashboards, extracting data using SQL, and documenting in Confluence. Strong skills in R, Azure, and teamwork in agile settings are required. This position provides an opportunity to contribute significantly to public health data initiatives.

Competenze

• Strong hands-on experience as a Data Scientist aligned to the DDaT Data Scientist role level.
• Strong proficiency in R for analytical product development.
• Practical experience with tidyverse, RMarkdown, Quarto, and Shiny.
• Good working knowledge of SQL, including writing simple extraction and transformation queries.
• Experience deploying or supporting deployment of products via Posit Connect.
• Experience working in Azure-based data environments, ideally including Azure Synapse.
• Experience using Git/Azure Repos, pull requests, and code review practices.
• Strong documentation skills using platforms such as Confluence and Purview.

Mansioni

• Develop data products including dashboards, reports, and analytical outputs using R.
• Build and maintain solutions using tidyverse, RMarkdown, Quarto, and Shiny.
• Extract and process data from Azure Synapse and related databases using SQL.
• Deploy analytical products to Posit Connect.
• Document datasets and data products in Purview and Confluence.
• Work within PHA’s Jira Kanban workflow.

Conoscenze

Strong hands-on experience as a Data Scientist

Strong proficiency in R

Practical experience with tidyverse, RMarkdown, Quarto, and Shiny

Good working knowledge of SQL

Experience deploying products via Posit Connect

Experience working in Azure-based data environments

Experience using Git/Azure Repos

Familiarity with Reproducible Analytical Pipelines

Experience in Agile/Kanban delivery teams

Strong documentation skills

Strong communication and collaboration skills

Evidence of cyber security training

Strumenti

Git/Azure Repos

SQL

Azure Synapse

Confluence

Purview

Descrizione del lavoro

A health analytics firm in the UK is seeking a Data Scientist to support the Public Health Agency (NI). The role focuses on developing health data products and analytical outputs mainly using R within an Azure-based environment. Responsibilities include building dashboards, extracting data using SQL, and documenting in Confluence. Strong skills in R, Azure, and teamwork in agile settings are required. This position provides an opportunity to contribute significantly to public health data initiatives.