Data Scientist I (Health Policy and Management)

The Johns Hopkins University; Baltimore (MD); Hybrid; USD 102,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

The Johns Hopkins University is seeking a Data Scientist I to support the management of complex databases and to develop, maintain, and document code. You will collect and extract data using a variety of data extraction tools and carry out data management, visualization, and analysis tasks.

This role emphasizes building dashboards, models, and infrastructure for cleaning and processing data, plus experimentation to evaluate performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Four years of quantitative research and analytics experience with at least two years of programming.
• Education substitutions allowed per the JHU equivalency formula.
• Experience with real-world data and statistical analysis preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support development of dashboards, calculations, and reports requiring programming.
• Support tuning of machine learning models and data infrastructure.
• Wrangle Health Information/Electronic Health Records and claims data.
• Mine data resources for metrics, KPIs and business intelligence.
• Perform error analysis and propose improvements.

Skills

Communication

Programming

Python

R

SQL

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Job description

We are seeking a Data Scientist I who will support the management of complex databases as well as develop, maintain, and document code. The Data Scientist will collect and extract data using a variety of data extraction tools and carry out data management, visualization, and analysis tasks.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Support the development of dashboards, calculations, and reports which may require programming.
• Support the development and tuning of machine learning models, which may require programming.
• Support the development of infrastructure for cleaning and processing data and running experiments to evaluate system performance.
• Mine various data resources for development of key metrics, performance indicators, and general business intelligence useful for planning and service design.
• Perform error analysis and suggest and implement improvements.
• Other duties as assigned.

In addition to the duties described above

• Wrangle and analyze Electronic Health Record data other real world data including health insurance claims.
• Use SQL, R and/or Python for statistical analysis.
• Apply best practices for real-world evidence principles, including bias, confounding, and study design considerations.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• Four years of relevant quantitative research and analytics experience, with at least two of those years including complex programming experience.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education beyond a high school diploma/graduation equivalent, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in coding and data wrangling with SQL, R and/or Python for statistical analysis.
• Experience with econometrics techniques.
• Experience with electronic health records and cost related data such as claims.
• Real world evidence techniques including target trial emulation.

Technical Skills & Expected Level Of Proficiency

• Continuous Improvement - Developing
• Data Architecture - Developing
• Data Management and Analysis - Developing
• Data Tools and Platforms - Developing
• Data Validation and Quality Assurance - Developing
• Data Visualization - Developing
• Machine Learning - Developing
• Oral and written communications - Developing
• Programming Languages - Developing

The core technical skills listed are most essential; additional technical skills may be required based on specific division or department needs.

Classified Title: Data Scientist I

Role/Level/Range: ATP/04/PG

Starting Salary Range: $102,295 - $179,375 Annually (Commensurate w/exp.)

Employee group: Full Time

Schedule: Monday to Friday: 9:00am – 5:00pm

FLSA Status: Exempt

Location: Hybrid/School of Public Health

Department name: Health Economics

Personnel area: School of Public Health